Sonos Controller ForThe iPhone
Sonos is currently offering its new Sonos Controller for the iPhone for free via Appleâs AppStore. The application allows users who have an iPhone, iPhone 3G or iPod Touch to control the Sonos Multi-Room Music System directly from their device over the Wi-Fi network. If youâve already got the Sonos system running in your home, youâll enjoy easily linking and unlinking room, and controlling your music, searching for songs and browsing your music collection from your device.
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Let Your iPhone Pour You A Beer
There looks to be no end of the fun things that people come up with to use their iPhone for. Now somebody has cooked up a way to get a beer pouring machine to be controlled via the iPhone. The action will be triggered by the word âPourâ as found in a Pownce RSS feed. As the device is made from Lego bricks, creating one for yourself should be within the realms of possibility.
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Microsoft Office Documents Editing Coming to the iPhone [IPhone Office]
The developers of Documents to Goâand Microsoft Office documents editor for BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile, and Symbianâare finally bringing it out for the iPhone. This is going to be an interesting one to see, specially since the iPhone doesn’t have any copy and paste capabilities, which are crucial for editing documents of any kind, being from Word, Excel o PowerPoint. Dataviz says the application is “Coming Soon”… could this mean they are actually waiting for Apple to implement it or they are just developing it so it works within their own Office editor?
Whatever it happens, this is the list of features supported in Documents to Go:
⢠View, edit and create native Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and attachments
⢠Supports Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
⢠Includes support for Microsoft Office Word 2007 & PowerPoint 2007
⢠Full featured solution with viewing AND editing functionality
⢠Supports file and attachments received via e-mail, Bluetooth® or media card
⢠Unique InTact Technology retains original document formatting of edited files
⢠Integrated with BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service for reliable and instant access to e-mail attachments
⢠Spell checking for word processing files
⢠Advanced character/font formatting
⢠Advanced paragraph formatting
⢠Insert and delete tables for word processing files
⢠Insert and edit auto bullets & numbers in word processing files
⢠Sorting in spreadsheets
⢠Apply cell formatting in spreadsheets
⢠Insert and delete worksheets
⢠Insert, duplicate and delete slides in presentations
⢠English, French, Italian, German and Spanish versions available
[DatavizâThanks Steve]
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Apple Really Wants You to Rate Apps in iPhone 2.2 [Iphone 2.2]
Apple continues to try to make iPhone app ratings genuinely useful—first by making sure you own ‘em before you slam ‘em—and in the iPhone 2.2 update, apparently, by getting you to actually rate them. A new 2.2 screenshot shows it asking users to rate an app when they delete it from the phone, which would presumably be uploaded to the App Store and obviously boost the number of ratings that make up its score. Update: Looks like you can directly download podcasts to your phone, too, explaining Apple’s Podcaster rejectiona month ago. One big question though.
If you’re removing it, isn’t it more likely you have a bad impression of the app? Why else would you dropkick it off your phone? We don’t know the full extent of the new app rating nanny, so it’s possible iPhone 2.2 might also ask you to rate it after two weeks of use to counter-balance what would seem to overwhelming provoke an influx of negative vibes. We’d hope there’s some countervailing voting force, anyway. Still, while it’s no Google Street View, it’s a nice little addition to 2.2—we like anything that makes the App Store better. [iPhone Hellas via Mac Rumors]
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Greatest projector / iPhone clone combo handset in the world now up for sale
Look, here’s what you need to do: reach into the appropriate pocket on your personage, take out your phone, and throw it into the nearest wall. It sucks. The N70 from Lanye (or ChinaKing, or… somebody from China), which we’ve drooled over previously, is a candybar phone with a 2.4-inch screen, Bluetooth 2.0, and a little bit of dual-band GSM. Oh, and a built-in projector. And an interface that almost perfectly mirrors that of the iPhone with the addition of voice recording and MMS. It’s awesome, and it’s now available for import for a mere $345. A bargain at any price.
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GameBoy Theme For Your iPhone
If youâre the nostalgic type, then youâll definitely appreciate this GameBoy theme by Rob Sheridan for your iPhone. There are currently 2 variants available, namely the button version or the full screen version. Using these themes will definitely bring a smile to many of us, along with thoughts of how simpler life was back then. We wonder how long anybody will want to keep his iPhone looking like a classic GameBoy though.
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Sonos Update Turns iPhone into Multimedia Remote
Multimedia streaming device manufacturer Sonos just announced updates that will make the company’s line of products even more Apple-friendly. Beginning today, Sonos owners can download a free application from the iTunes App Store that lets them control their streaming devices from an iPhone or iPod Touch.
According to PC Mag, the download essentially turns the Apple device into a Sonos remote, performing all the same functions as the device bundled with the high-end multimedia system. Users can control sound sources, manage music libraries, control Internet radio streaming, and monitor audio output.
Sonos also announced the release of Version 2.7 of its software, which will add 15,000 radio station feeds.
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Google Earth launched for iPhone
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iPhone and iPod Touch users can now explore the globe with Google Earth, available for free on the iTunes App Store. Google seem to have put a lot of work into optimizing the experience for the iPhone, adapting the application well for the touch-screen and integrating with the GPS services to allow users to zoom in on their precise location at any time. The search functions allow users to bring up detailed geographical, pictorial, and factual information about places all over the world, as well as being able to locate local businesses in the proximity of the user. Google boasts over 400 million unique downloads of its desktop version of Google Earth and hopes that this latest incarnation will also prove a hit. The main competition is in the form of Earthscape, which recently dropped it’s price point on the App Store to free from US$10, presumably in anticipation of the Google Earth launch. Google have, unsurprisingly, hinted that an Android version of Google Earth is in the pipeline (though no formal announcement has been made yet), so it seems that globe-trotters and armchair explorers will be able to use this application on more devices in the near future. Read more at the Google Lat Long blog |
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Google Earth in 3D released for the iPhone
Google released an iPhone version of their highly popular desktop application Google Earth. Not only can you roam the virtual Earth viewing satellite imagery but you can also view selected terrains in 3D just by tilting your iPhone. The iPhone OpenGL graphics seems well suited for an intensive application like Google Earth.
The new Google Earth application can be download straight to your iPhone (2G or 3G) via the Apple AppStore for free. You can use this link (opens iTunes if you have it installed).
When you start off the App you will see the 3D Earth from space. To zoom in just double tap or use the well-known iPhone gesture. You can drag the virtual map with finger swipes just as easily as you would on the native Google Maps application. This time however you can rotate the map as you like by twisting two fingers on screen.
Visting the virtual Barcelona: notice the info dots from Panoramio and Wikipedia
You can pinpoint your location using either GPS or cell tower triangulation. You can also search places in general or ones near your location. And finally you can always realign your map to point to North by clicking on the compass in the top right corner.
Looking for a local businesses - Desigual stores  reading an article about a individual store
The nice thing about Google Earth (and what makes it better than Maps) is that it’s loaded with information - geotagged photos from Panoramio and text articles from Wikipedia. If there are any of those available for the location you are looking at, you’ll see small clickable icons on screen.
Reading a Wikipedia article and opening a Panoramio image straight from Google Earth
As we already said, using the 3D mode is as easy as it gets. If you use Google Earth with the iPhone parallel to the ground, just lift it up in portrait position and you’ll see the virtual horizon and hopefully some 3D terrain (not available at all places).
Visiting Mount Everest in 2D and 3D Â showing Europe in 3D view
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Google Earth in 3D released for the iPhone
Google released an iPhone version of their highly popular desktop application Google Earth. Not only can you roam the virtual Earth viewing satellite imagery but you can also view selected terrains in 3D just by tilting your iPhone. The iPhone OpenGL graphics seems well suited for an intensive application like Google Earth.
The new Google Earth application can be download straight to your iPhone (2G or 3G) via the Apple AppStore for free. You can use this link (opens iTunes if you have it installed).
When you start off the App you will see the 3D Earth from space. To zoom in just double tap or use the well-known iPhone gesture. You can drag the virtual map with finger swipes just as easily as you would on the native Google Maps application. This time however you can rotate the map as you like by twisting two fingers on screen.
Visting the virtual Barcelona: notice the info dots from Panoramio and Wikipedia
You can pinpoint your location using either GPS or cell tower triangulation. You can also search places in general or ones near your location. And finally you can always realign your map to point to North by clicking on the compass in the top right corner.
Looking for a local businesses - Desigual stores  reading an article about a individual store
The nice thing about Google Earth (and what makes it better than Maps) is that it’s loaded with information - geotagged photos from Panoramio and text articles from Wikipedia. If there are any of those available for the location you are looking at, you’ll see small clickable icons on screen.
Reading a Wikipedia article and opening a Panoramio image straight from Google Earth
As we already said, using the 3D mode is as easy as it gets. If you use Google Earth with the iPhone parallel to the ground, just lift it up in portrait position and you’ll see the virtual horizon and hopefully some 3D terrain (not available at all places).
Visiting Mount Everest in 2D and 3D Â showing Europe in 3D view
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