Posts Tagged ‘ iPhone ’

Version 1.3 Of The iPhone WordPress App Available

Jul 4th, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: iPhone

WordPress for iPhone developer Raanan Bar-Cohen has announced that version 1.3 of the free iPhone WordPress app (App Store link) is now live.
The announcement doesn’t explain what’s new in the update, other than this note:
Please note: Due to a strange glitch when submitting the app, the About page of the “1.3″ version will say version [...]



First Music Video Shot On An iPhone 3GS: Technologic Overkill

Jul 2nd, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: Citizen Media, Digital Music, Digital Video Recorder, Internet TV, Video, Video Software, iPhone

Steve Ellington’s Technologic Overkill claims to be the first music video shot on an iPhone 3GS.
The song by XFYA accompanies a video about the plight of a little blue robot and his attempt to be relevant in an increasingly technological world.
It’s not destined to be a classic - but it’s an impressive reminder that cell [...]



The iPhone 3GS Video Revolution Is Here

Jun 25th, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Video, Video Software, Vlogs, iPhone

The iPhone 3GS video revolution is here.
Google has announced that uploads from mobile phones to YouTube have increased by 400% since last Friday, when Apple’s new iPhone 3GS went on sale.
According to Google, the jump from the iPhone 3GS is part of a larger trend, driven by three things:

new video-enabled phones on the market;
improvements that [...]



Ministry of Sound Launches Dance Radio For iPhone

Jun 23rd, 2009 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: iPhone

UK’s dance music “evangelists” Ministry of Sound have launched a new iPhone application, “Dance Radio.”
The $6.99 app offers a variety of global dance music stations, and includes these features:

Listen to a live stream of Ministry of Sound’s exclusive dance radio station
Choose from Ministry of Sound’s handpicked list of the top 100 dance music stations
Listen to [...]



Marshall Kirkpatrick, Dave Winer Join Forces For Bad Hair Day Podcast

Jun 19th, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Citizen Media, General, Podcasting

ReadWriteWeb blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick, right, and proto-podcaster Dave Winer kicked off a new podcast today, the Bad Hair Day Podcast.
The podcast is old-school, basically an unedited conversation between the two, tech snafus and all.
In the first episode, Kirkpatrick and Winer touch on the new iPhone OS, Twitter and even Kirkpatrick’s bizarre unicorn fetish. Fetish may [...]

 
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Need A Virtual Tuning Fork? There’s An App For That

Jun 4th, 2009 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: General, Strange, iPhone

Cool/weird iPhone app of the day: Stanton Studio has released ToneTune, a “multiple tuning fork” that helps tune stringed instruments to the correct pitch by ear, “without searching through hard-to-find books or the web.”
The application is loaded with standard and alternate tunings, over 60 in all, for guitars and other instruments. Users select a tuning, [...]



Podcast Network Plans To Promote, Distribute iPhone Applications

Jun 3rd, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Podcasting

Podcasting network Wizzard Media today announced plans to distribute iPhone applications, starting with six apps: Blue Attack, OmNomNom, Sudoku Unlimited, TouchScan, Blue Defense and Sudoku Classic.
The move seems like a strange one, at first glance. But Wizzard plans to use its podcast network as an advertising platform to promote the iPhone applications:
Based on current sales [...]



Shocking News: iPod Earbuds May Zap Your Ears

May 19th, 2009 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: iPod Accessories, iPods & Portable Media Players

From the Apple Support website, some hair-raising news (nyuk nyuk nyuk): “It’s possible to receive a small and quick electrical (static) shock from your earbuds while listening to iPod or iPhone.”
Yikes.
Turns out, when the air is very dry or very windy — or if you are excercising with your player in your pocket — using [...]



Ninjas Release Free iPhone App

May 14th, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

The new media masterminds behind Ask A Ninja have release a free iPhone application, I Am Ninja: Archery (App Store link):
Get ready for some classic Ninja versus CPU bow-bending, arrow-gliding, archery action! You are a Ninja, standing alone in the woods, with a bamboo wall separating you from your opponent. Sometimes it’s day and sometimes [...]



Mizzou J-School Students: iPhone or iPod Touch Required

May 11th, 2009 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Educational Podcasts, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Used to be, the only tools aspiring journalists needed were pencils and a spiral notepad.
Then, in the last decade, journalism schools recommended that their students have access to a computer (preferably portable) and an Internet connection.
That seemed perfectly up-to-date in terms of media hardware, until today.
Now, at the University of Missouri Journalism School, “must have” [...]