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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 [...]

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 [...]

Now it’s official:

Less than twelve hours before Apple’s “Mum is no longer the word” event in London T-Mobile Germany seems to have a slip-up on their website — again.
Searching for iPhone (Sep. 17th, 23:25 CEST) reveals T-Mobile’s product database already knows the iPhone is manufactured by Apple. It’s not available yet, of course. If it [...]

After announcing a (not so) massive price drop from $599 to $399 for the 8GB iPhone Apple posted a new page for the future Wi-Fi Music Store to buy songs on the go. The page shows an iPhone at 9:42 AM with the same time displayed in the clock app’s icon. Other iPhone pictures at [...]

The video below shows first examples of iPhone’s accelerometer used for gaming. This demonstrates — combined with the large multi-touch display — how great the potential for iPhone being a gaming device is. Wii + DS = iPhone games?

Thanks ealf for developing this. YouTube video. Source code.
tags: accelerometer, ealf, game, iPhone, iPhone accelerometer [...]