Posts Tagged ‘iphone’

Posted on August 31, 2009 - by John

iPhone Apps for the serious iPhone addict!

In my usual style of listing the greats, here is a small list of great iPhone applications, I have slanted this a bit to include Irish applications, listing is not my preference just the way I did the list.

Eirtext Pro

Looking to send FREE SMS messages? Using the data connection and your allocation of free webtext messages you can send FREE text messages from your iPhone using this incredible application.  I have this app in my iPhone dock ( the four icons on the bottom of the screen) because I use it so frequently!

I’m with O2 so I get 250 free text messages a month, that is nothing to be sneezed at.

The interface is simple, easy to use, and elegant. This app had some serious thought process involved in it’s development. There is support for Meteor, Three, Vodafone, O2 and other SMS systems including O2 UK.

You can save your text history, optional settings include: auto CC, vibration and rotation. A new feature which I find incredibly useful is “info while typing”. This displays the number of characters you have used,  number of messages this SMS has used,  and your remaining monthly allowance!

If you are interested in this application, I suggest you download the Pro version, which costs a very small amount of money, less than 3 euro I think, you will save a fortune on SMS messages. It is worth noting that you need a data plan in order to send messages, check with your operator, chances are you have one.

Facebook

I wrote this post some time ago, since then Facebook has released the latest version of their app, so I’ve done a re-write, so much has changed! With the new version, comes a host of tasty features and a new layout. You could really say that this is, in itself,  a new application. The restrictiveness of the previous app is lifted. The main screen gives you a set of icons, namely:

• News Feed
• Profile
• friends
• Inbox, Chat, Requests
• Events, Photos and Notes.

There is also a horizontal bar to alert you to new notifications, you can scroll to a second page, which allows you to bookmark your favourite pages, or profiles. I must say I do miss the bottom buttons which were on the previous version, they made navigation easier! This is not the applications fault but I really miss being able to use  my facebook programs, in addition to the build in ones. Still it keeps you up to date!

Color (colour) Splash

I had heard about colour splash before, but I recently upgraded to the latest iPhone which has a much better camera, so I though I would give this one a try. If you like to take pictures with your iPhone, then you will love this one. I plan to use it for editing some great pictures on my next holiday to Asia. Colour splash allows you to convert an image to gray scale, but select part of that image to keep in colour. The usage is simple, using your finger you select what you want  in colour. You can see an image I edited using colour splash above. This is great fun for playing  around with. It would also make some interesting profile pictures for your Twitter, or Facebook account! It’s not  free but it is low priced.

Sky News

Sky News has made a pretty great application. You can read the latest news, and watch the videos. With the usual sections, such as business, and showbiz, you can’t go wrong with his application. It is well laid out, easy to use, and as you would expect from Sky News is updated regularly! I myself have not had a simple crash, it seems to be a great useful application. I have not however tested it over 3G, as I have easy access to wifi. So with that in mind, I would imagine it uses a good bit of your iPhone data  allowance, comment below and let me know if you use it on 3G!

TwitterFon
There is a hell of a lot of iPhone applications for Twitter out there. Many of my friends use TwitterFon so I tried it out and continue to use it today. Like the other iPhone apps above this one is easy to use. A screen for your friends timeline, @mentions, DM messages, and a search function. I believe there is also a paid version, in this version there are advertisements, but they are non intrusive. I have not used any other Twitter application so I really cannot compare this to them, however it is simple and does the job. Support for mentions and DM as push messages would be a super addition to this app!

My Bill for O2.ie customers
This is one for O2 customers. I would award  this Irish iPhone app of the year. The O2 website can sometimes be a little slow. This applications makes it easy to see at a glance  the balance on your account, the un-billed balance, the remaining minutes, messages webtexts and so on. With the recession and all it is nice to keep and eye on your spend!

Have I missed any interesting iPhone apps that you cannot live without? Comment below and let me know what they are, and ask how could I have missed them? If you give your own little review I will update this post.

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Posted on July 14, 2009 - by John

Windows 95 on iPhone

Completely pointless, still…

Posted on September 10, 2008 - by John

The day nothing happened at an Apple event

Somewhere yesterday, an Apple Fanboy was glued to his PC monitor waiting for something huge to happen, a big Apple event was about to be held! There were promises of  new features to the iPhone range, a new line of iPods, and a software upgrade for the iPhone/iTouch. Time has now passed and the enthusiastic Apple Fanboy starts to navigate away from his favourite Apple news website, bored and disappointed, he goes in search of something interesting to fill the void left by Apples promise of something riveting…some porn perhaps? (more…)

Posted on June 21, 2008 - by John

Thinking of getting an iPhone? – Then consider this video!

Posted on March 18, 2008 - by John

iPhone Fever?

I got my iPhone a few months ago, long before it was released here and the UK, it was and I suppose, still is, a must have device. It’s something I use every day – so I do get value for it, checking my e-mail as well as calls and of course my iPod. But this can be done by a lot of devices for much less money – without buying into the whole iTunes encrypted music issue and at 3g speeds, something the iPhone does not currently offer. But then – that’s me, I love these hype technologies.

To get to the point, today at lunch time I was nipping out for a snack when I noticed a young girl yapping away on her iPhone, turned to the corner and there was a middle aged man tapping away at the iPhone screen, on my way back to the office I noticed a woman yapping to her friends on her iPhone.

AHHHHHHHH!!!

It felt a bit surreal, everyone had one, it seemed as thought I had jumped ship from having what everyone wanted and I had, to being one of the many, who owns an iPhone. The days of people stopping me in the street and asking where I got my iPhone and how it works – is over.

Do I still want it? Yea of course, but it takes a bit from the novelty of having ‘a must have’ phone that previously was not available in the shops of Ireland. I have been looking on expansys.ie, who offers some pretty cool touch screen – windows based phones. But windows mobile is such a pile of rubbish compared to the cool stylings of the iPhone interface.

I’m interested to see what happens when 2.0 version of the iPhone software is released in June, will it really pull BlackBerry customers over to Apple? Probably not, but it will be very interesting to watch, and of course fool around with the new applications.

Posted on January 20, 2007 - by John

Apple iPhone -The future for Apple?

I just watched Steve Jobs Macworld Conference & Expo 2007 keynote address from San Francisco, and although like any Apple fan, I ran for apple.com when I heard that it included the iPhone, I was shocked at how great this piece of technology actually is. This is an Apple iPod, Phone and Internet Browser all in one. And I have to say if I were any other phone right now I would be worried.

To be released in June 2007 in the USA and the fourth quarter for Europe and 2008 in Asia, the phone will take the world by storm, I do however wonder, how many changes mobile phone networks will have to make to accommodate it (there seems to be a few features that are network dependant), the only network in Ireland I can see doing this would probably be Vodafone, although I know that O2 have an apple thing going on (they sell iPods). But apple is breaking into a huge market here, their target is 1% of the market (meaning 10 million units sold) to begin with.

Apple seems to have every confidence in this phone, they have all the big wigs on board with this phone, Google and Yahoo, with Cingular (a mobile network in the US) all standing firm behind them. Apple have decided to remove the "Computer" part from Apple Computer Inc. It is a good move since their claim to fame has moved on heaps and bounds since the 1984 Mac computer. So you can check out all about this phone yourself from apple.com and watch all the keynote address here, and rather than go on about it, here is my take on what features the iPhone will have.

-Windscreen Video iPod
- Mobile Phone
- Google Maps
- SMS
- Camera Phone
- Mobile e-mail
- Wi-Fi
- 4GB and 8GB models
- Speakerphone
- Internet
- Works on OSX

The price is 499USD, not sure what it will be in Ireland, or if it will be subsised by the networks over here!

Posted on January 17, 2007 - by John

If Apple Made Phones

I know, im late with this iPhone news, but it rocks, dont you think!