Archive - Sep 2008

Are you getting enough out of your iPhone? If eating iPhone cupcakes isn't enough for you, then maybe you should try some coasters instead. Meninos Design from Brazil came out with these neat icon coasters that are a great companion for the iPhone experience. All the applications are there, from Maps to Calculator, including even the Settings.

Prologue

I just had an amazingly painful experience with AT&T wireless. I used to be on their prepaid plan and switched to a post-paid (contract) plan back in July. But in addition to sending me bills for the postpaid plan, they've continued to bill my credit card for the prepaid plan. Thus begins my saga.

Chapter 1: Jack

Available via Safari      

Price: Free with Lotus Notes License  

The wait is finally over. There has been talk for a long time that IBM was developing Lotus Notes for the iPhone. You can now access your email, calendars, and contacts if you have an existing Lotus Notes License. Surprisingly this is not available through an app in [...]

The other night I was playing with my and decided to see if there were
any new applications worth downloading from the App Store.

My phone has been dead for two days.  At first I thought the cellular networks were jammed with people freaking out, but it turns out that my iPhone was deactivated because I had not updated it via iTunes.  I shudder to think about what could have happened if I were on vacation without a computer to synch the phone up with iTunes.  Again ... I hate iTunes or maybe this time I hate Apple.  I still love my iPhone, though.

One in six home wifi users fail to secure their wireless networks
against uninvited guests - are you at risk?

More than one in ten people surveyed also admitted to "borrowing"
internet access from someone else's open wireless network, according
to research by .

There's no mention of how many people were surveyed, and the whole
thing is a transparent ploy just to get the UK's MoneySupermarket some
media attention, but it raises a very real issue. You don't need to be
some kind of hacking genius to use someone else's insecure wireless
connection.

Let me be clear, I do not like Notes as an Email client. Give me Exchange, Outlook, Web Outlook and ActiveSync and I'm a happy bunny. I'm sure some readers (Mr. Coombs I'm looking in you direction) will be just giddy to hear that on Tuesday IBM are going to be offically launching the iNotes Ultralite site, which provides an iPhone Safari friendly web application for accessing Lotus Notes via an installation of Domino Web Access 8.0.2 on the server. I can almost hear the "Huzzahs" from here :P

Welcome back everyone,
This week's iPhone App is the Ebay App. With the Ebay app you can search for items, view the current status of items that you are selling, you can bid on items, you can view the status of

Facebook tonight launched version 2.0 of its Facebook for iPhone application, bringing many features that were before only available on the site to a mobile device for the first time.

With version 2.0:

The home page now features a full News Feed, along with access to filtered views of the News Feed, like Status Updates, Posted Items, Live Feed, and Events.

• Full photo tagging and posting is now supported.
• Notifications are now accessible for the first time.
• Profiles now have tabs, like the Facebook website redesign.
• Feed comments are accessible both here and on the News Feed.

Overall, Facebook for iPhone now looks and feels like a fully featured Facebook - it’s a remarkably well designed product