cinnamon thoughts.

I’ve just noticed the Google Mobile App for iPhone/iPod touch appeared in the German iTunes App Store — finally. The reviews aren’t good, though so be sure to read them first.
Update: After one test the app is gone again. It wasn’t useful to me and it rendered my Settings app useless, even after removing it [...]

As soon as Apple announced iPhone 3G would feature GPS support a mental image of Nike + iPod sans the iPod came to my mind. About a month after the arrival of the iPhone App Store the first applications to keep track of your running workout are available:

Path Tracker is an inexpensive tool to map [...]

The alpha version 1.3 of Commenter Spy adds compatibility for the latest WordPress release and is only working with version 2.5 or later.

Attendance Countdown sports an improved and more iPhone-like UI as of now. Arrows indicate which values can be changed and font sizes are more consistent. (direct link)

My updated GeoMapLookup — a website to geolocate a host, domain or IP address with Google Maps integration — now sports a newly created iPhone and iPod touch version which was chosen as Apple.com’s Staff Pick and featured web app for February 26th 2008.
GeoMapLookup is a web app to display information about the geographical location [...]

mobileLife is an iPhone/iPod touch version of Conway’s cellular automaton “Game of Life“, a zero-player game needing no input from human players with its evolution determined by the initial state.
To use mobileLife point your mobile Safari to: http://mobilelife.cinnamonthoughts.org/
mobileLife on apple.com

iCountr is an iPhone/iPod touch web app to count everything from the cups of coffee you had to the number of people attending a meeting. It provides a convenient way of counting everything you like using a familiar interface. It supports multiple counters with custom names, counter value manipulation and of course one-tap counting.
To use [...]

iPhone misses copy, cut and paste capabilities. It features the great magnifying glass though, which is the first step to a–in m opinion–great copy and past implementation. The following describes my idea of interacting with text input on the iPhone:
Mark text

Use the magnifying glass to position the cursor on one end of the text to [...]

Apple’s iPhone started a new era of mobile internet usage:
Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset [...]
Financial Times link

I’ve added a 12h (a.m./p.m.) mode to my handy Attendance Countdown. You can now toggle between a 24h and 12h display. Also new is the possibility to toggle between left and elapsed time modes. (direct link)

My first iPhone web app Attendance Countdown is now listed on apple.com:

Direct Attendance Countdown link http://attend.cinnamonthoughts.org/

Today’s iPhone software version 1.1.3 supports a feature called WebClip which lets you add a bookmark icon for a website or iPhone specific web app directly to your home screen. While doing this the iPhone asks the server for an image called apple-touch-icon.png:
84.131.nnn.nnn - - [15/Jan/2008:23:51:59 +0100] “GET /apple-touch-icon.png HTTP/1.1″ 404 226 “-” “CFNetwork/152.4″
The image [...]

The creator of the iChat add-on Chax released a tool to switch your Leopard spaces by moving your mouse to the edge of the screen called Warp. Great for moving windows to a different space.

Apple’s latest Mac OS X incarnation comes bundled with a handy feature called Spaces which is essentially a virtual desktop manager. While being common knowledge that F8 activates spaces for switching and dragging windows between them, the following is little known:

While in the overview mode (F8) you can just press the number of the space [...]