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Electronista got a first-hand look at several new Griffin accessories featured at CES and Macworld, including the Navigate controller and upcoming IFM app for the iPhone and iPod touch. The Navigate controller features an integrated FM tuner and a white-on-black LCD screen. The track information was easy to view but subtle, while the control buttons allowed easy browsing through the songs, playlis...
Speck has released several new products, including hardshell, iPhone cases, two new lines of iPod nano and iPod touch cases, AftPack lightweight backpacks, CorePak Notebook Messenger bags, PortPak Notebook shoulder Bags and the basic TuckPack Notebook Sleeve....
Cisco this week announced that it extending its web conferencing and collaboration capabilities to the Apple's iPhone 3G with a new iPhone application: the new Cisco WebEx meetings iPhone application is available for free download from the AppStore and allows users to click to join and actively collaborate in CiscoWebEx meetings. Using Cisco WebEx Meeting Center application on the iPhone, users ca...
RadTech has announced numerous new products at Macworld 2009 (Booth No. 1043 S). Among the new gear is the ARC case for iPod touch and iPhone, a two-piece polyurethane case that clasps on the rear of the iPod and provides access to all ports. It arrives in black, silver, red and blue and ships for $15. Also shipping for the iPhone is the SLAM for iPhone, a clip-based case that holds an iPhone face...
Kerio Technologies says it is seeing significant -- even surprising -- growth in iPhone users of its MailServer products for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Worldwide Marketing VP Dusan Vitek tells MacNN says the introduction of the iPhone 3G led to a significant increase in demand in recent months....
Escape ($3) is a port of the classic 2D puzzle game originally programmed for the uDevGames 2002 Macintosh programming contest. In Escape the player users bombs, teleporting pads, push blocks, keys, cannons, traps, and more to solve various puzzles. Players must also avoid various obstacles such as shooters and guards while working towards the end. The iPhone port is a complete replica of the orig...
Ambrosia Software has released iToner 2, the latest update to the companyís custom ringtone application that enables users to create personal ringtones for the iPhone. By placing MP3, AAC, WAVE, or AIFF audio files into the iToner window, songs can be synced to the iPhone for later use. Features of the new version offer a cropping ability where users are able to scrub the sliders to the desired se...
Freeverse and Slitherine today announced two new game title -- one for the iPhone and one for Mac OS X. The developer noted the upcoming release of Commander - Napoleon at War for the Mac OS X as well as the release of SlotZ Racer for iPhone/iPod touch. Commander: Napoleon at War is the second game in the Commander series, taking the Commander: Europe at War engine "to the next level." Building on...
Canadian wireless giant Rogers on Wednesday said that it had only activated 130,000 iPhones in the fourth quarter of last year -- about half has many as the previous quarter. Citing the global recession and slowing consumer demand, the Bloomberg report said that about 130,000 iPhone 3Gs were activated in the period ended December 31, compared with 255,000 handsets in the third quarter. The company...
IGG Software today announced iBiz 4, a full-version upgrade to its application for time-tracking, billing and project management as well as the upcoming release of iBank Mobile, a native iPhone application designed to complement iBank 3, its personal finance application. iBiz 4, due in the first quarter of this year, offers new animated graphs (powered by core animation) and a completely new iCal ...
 Since getting ahold of my iPhone, I have imposed an arbitrary rule to keep all the preinstalled apps in my "first" home screen and the third-party apps in the others. As you may or may not be aware of, the iPhone originally comes with a total of 19 preinstalled apps. Four of these (Text, Phone, Mail, iPod) have been sitting pretty on my bottom dock since Day 1, with the remaining 15 placed amid the great blackness that is my first home screen. A home screen, being a 4 x 4 icon space, can accommodate up to 16 apps, so there's room for one more on my first. That left me with a decision to make: Which third-party app to place alongside the preinstalled ones so I could access it easily from anywhere in my iPhone and so it doesn't get lost in the clutter of confusing game, entertainment and productivity apps that has come into existence in my other home screens? I say it was the easiest decision I ever made in my life. Without even thinking about it, I knew right away which third-party app I should award the distinction to. Poke! Facebook.
It goes without saying that Facebook is my favorite, most frequently used third-party app. It keeps me connected to my circle of friends, helped me make new ones, and made me believe that spending hours online is a very productive thing to do. I particularly find the app to be superbly robust, and I couldn't agree more with Dimitri who stated in his review that the app is better than the Web site itself. And now, a recent update is set to make it way better and reinforce its position in my "exclusive" home screen.Read more
 Hey there everyone, we are pleased to announce that Israel Torres is coming on board as a writer for iPhoneSource - Israel is a mad keen iPhone user who currently is firmly in the Windows Camp (we’ll bring him over to the Apple side yet!!)
Israel brings to iPhoneSource the obvious, input from a Windows user, but also the input of someone firmly in the tech industry. He’s often trying out new utilities and tells me that VNC software gets a hammering on his iPhone.
Just as mad about iPhone’s as the rest of us, we are pleased to have Israel on the team. So look out for future posts coming soon from IsraelTorres
InternetSafety.com has announced the mobile version of its Safe Eyes for the iPhone and iPod touch. Originally created for the Mac and PC, Safe Eyes Mobile is filtering software that enables iPhone/iPod touch users to control what content can and cannot be viewed while surfing the web. Working as its own browser, the program contains many features found in Safari including multiple page capabiliti...
Don’t worry this is a family friendly blog post. With more and more parents having iPhones & allowing their kids to use them it was only a matter of time before someone wrote something to help protect our young ones while surfing this sordid place we call the interweb.
 SafeEyes, a popular application for blocking certain websites on your computer, is in the process of releasing an iPhone version. Now just how this will work I don’t know. But I do know this: it will NOT replace mobile safari, nor will it (from what I can see) block mobile safari from doing anything.
From what I can tell it is a skinned version of mobile safari with some extra features. Now some of the features are nice in that you can set up user profiles and each profile can have different filter rules applied to it. So I can visit a naughty site, but you can’t (and a naughty site might simply be an online gaming site - not XXX like your thinking).
The app has all the mobile Safari features, and on the surface seems great, but any kid is going to know that Mobile Safari is still on the phone - it’s a default app, you can’t remove it, so I’m not sure this app will really do what it does on the PC (stop your browser visiting bad sites)
Now for a really scary video by the CTO of internetsecurity.com (note to other video makers - don’t get so close to the camera - you’ll just scare the kids)
Demo of Safe Eyes Mobile on iPhone
This year at Macworld, iPhone Alley presented several companies with Editor's Choice Awards. The awards went to products which stood out among the others at Macworld. Not all of the products are new at the show, but they were all present. All of these products caught our eye because they're innovative, incredibly useful, or just incredibly great. Congratulations to all of our winners!
Jump on down to the full page to see the winners!
Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone app after the launch of Seadragon Mobile last month: Microsoft Tag. Just point the device’s camera to a custom tag and instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, and more.
Long Zheng of IStartedSomething wrote:
Microsoft Tag is based on a whole new technology called High Capacity Color Barcodes (HCCBs), which was invented in-house by Microsoft Research. The difference is not using square pixels, but triangle shapes and colors to store data.
Microsoft Tag is the third solution besides the existing technologies (QR Code and Data Matrix) we had today.
You can download the application for your iPhone via iTunes. This application also compatible with Windows Mobile, J2ME, Blackberry or Symbian S60 phone and can be obtained at http://gettag.mobi. (For the moment this is a free service, Zheng added).
Will it take off soon? Do you want to get it for your iPhone? Tell us what you think.
[via IStartedSomething]
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