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Archive for January, 2009

Appiphilia: Free iPhone app helps navigate Washington during ... Los Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour ago As with most things, there's an iPhone app to help visitors feel a bit less like Dorothy in Oz. What it is: Truth in advertising here. ...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Enterprise, Software, Odds and ends, Internet Tools, Leopard, iPhone, iPod touch, First Look

This post is a first for me in that I'm typing (or tapping) it in on an iPhone using our Blogsmith CMS. No, there's not a Blogsmith iPhone app that I'm aware of, and I'm not using Safari on the iPhone to pull up our web portal. Instead, I'm controlling my office iMac from about 16 miles away using my iPhone and LogMeIn Ignition.

LogMeIn is a remote access and control application for Macs and PCs that creates a secure connection between two computers by having each logged into a secure server. LogMeIn Ignition adds the ability to control a Mac or PC from your iPhone. To test Ignition, I set up a LogMeIn Free for Mac account and then loaded the app onto my iPhone 3G. How did it work? Read on for more details.

Continue reading First Look: LogMeIn Ignition

TUAWFirst Look: LogMeIn Ignition originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple iPhone app to stream US Presidential inauguration Macworld UK, UK - 1 hour ago Talk Radio, an Apple iPhone application from Juicy Development, is to stream tomorrow’s historic Presidential inauguration live. ... Juicy Development adds audio stream to Talk Radio for iPhone TechWhack (press release) Talk Radio to audio stream Presidential Inauguration prMac (press release) all 5 news articles

Sybase iAnywhere update pushes iPhone enterprise adoption IT World Canada Blogs, Canada - 1 hour ago based vendor’s iAnywhere Mobile Office takes an “enterprise sandbox” approach to support iPhone users in the enterprise. What’s driving mobile device ... Sybase iAnywhere Named a Top Mobile Middleware Market Leader for ... WELT ONLINE all 10 news articles

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Google Drops iPhone Optimized iGoogle: Users Revolt Search Engine Roundtable - 1 hour ago A year ago, Google released an optimized version of iGoogle for the iPhone. But recently, Google began redirecting iPhone users away from that optimized ... Google Dumps iGoogle for iPhone: Huhbuwhy?! the iPhone Blog all 2 news articles

Filed under: Gaming, Software, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

Version 9.06 of X-Plane 9 has been released from Laminar Research, and if you haven't updated your iPhone or iPod touch with the new edition, you'll want to do that as soon as possible.

X-Plane has been updated for free over the last few versions with the most-requested features that users asked for:

• More flying regions and airports; the initial release had only the area around Innsbruck, Austria. Now you can fly around Southern California, Hawaii, and San Francisco as well.
• More airplanes. The Piper Malibu single and Beech King-Air twin have been added to the X-Plane 9 fleet.
• EFIS (Electronic Flight Instrument System). For budding or real pilots, having a real "glass cockpit" adds to the realism of X-Plane 9. According to Laminar Research, pilots are actually beginning to use X-Plane 9 Airliner (a sister product) for practice prior to simulator check flights!
• A much improved flight model. This makes the handling characteristics of each aircraft type much closer to the real thing.
• A pause button so you can actually get back to reality on occasion, then return to a flight in progress.
• Better animation frame rate for more realism.

The app is still US$9.99 and is available in the App Store (click opens iTunes).

TUAWUpdated X-Plane 9 for iPhone & iPod touch: More airports, more planes originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone Nano Could be a HiPhone PMP Today, CA - 1 hour ago New photos of an iPhone Nano have surfaced. Side by side a white iPhone, the Nano Apple Phone looks convincing if a little bland in its exact but ... Apple Puts Coal in Stocking for Would-Be IPhone Gifters AdAge.com all 2 news articles

The iControlPad bore many signs of vaporware: desirability, no official authorization and a low budget. We now know that there's at least one working version, and that promises of production aren't, you know, lies.

Here we can see the iControlPad wrapped around an iPhone, playing Quake. It works! But a few things stand out. First, there' a discernible lag. This is probably a software issue, as I can't imagine where along this short line of hardware connections that kind of latency could crop up. The developers say they'll have bits of source code ready for developers who want to include controls in their apps, so I hope it's a little more optimized by the time that's seeded.

Unfortunately, it's clear that "developers", means homebrew developers, as there's no indication that ZodTTD is going to get Apple's blessing on this device any time soon—something that they'd need if they wanted to see integration with App Store games. In others words, this'll only work on Jailbroken games, at least for now. That means no Brothers in Arms with a proper controller, but at least we'll be able to play our emulators properly now. [ZodTTD via NoWhereElse]

Saltlick Labs releases Pocket Workout for the iPhone and iPod Touch prMac (press release), TX - 3 hours ago ... developer of the popular applications Little Black Book and BreakkUp, is proud to announce the release of Pocket Workout for the iPhone and iPod Touch. ... Pocket Workout exercise program debuts on Apple iPhone and iPod touch Macworld UK all 3 news articles

While the iControlPad still isn't available for mass consumption, homebrew developer ZodTTD has released a video of him using it to play quake4iphone. Hard to tell just how well the gamepad works, but it's gotta be a helluva lot easier than blocking the screen with your greasy digits. Last we heard it had gone into production, but still no word on price or release date. Video embedded after the break.

Continue reading iControlPad gamepad frags demons on camera

Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming, Peripherals

iControlPad gamepad frags demons on camera originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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