iPod Buffet

I’ve been catching up on a few podcasts lately at bedtime and also listening to some music on my iPhone. One thing I used pretty frequently on my iPod nano was the sleep timer and I couldn’t quite figure out how to do this on my iPhone so unless I picked a play list the music would keep going all night. Sometimes the oh so easy to use iPhone leaves me baffled…. A quick online search this morning on Google brought up some tips that turned out to work pretty nice. If you want to do a type of

Now, software that turns iPod into a phone December 7th, 2008 London, Dec 7 (ANI): With a freeware application for the iPod Touch, your swanky music player can be turned into a virtual mobile phone, say the software’s creators. ‘Truphone’ uses wi-fi technology in an iPod Touch and enables phone users to make calls to other iPod Touch owners and Google Talk’’s messaging service users. The software [...] No Comments

Apple has released iPhone 2.2 Software Update which comes with number of improvements. Here is a list of new features in software update 2.2 for iPhone and iPod touch: Emoji icons for Japanese users Google Street View including street-level photographs of places you’ve located in Maps Public transit and walking directions with transit schedules, check fares, and estimate your travel time. Displays address of dropped pins Tap the Share Location button to send an email that includes a Googl

Why Apple and Google need to get into the Netbook business Posted by Jason Perlow @ 9:22 am Categories: Linux, Hardware Infrastructure, Software Infrastructure, Desktop, Personal Technology, Business, Apple, iPhone, Web Technology, Google, Free operating systems Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple iPod, Operating System, Apple Inc., Wireless, Android, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology This crappy photo-edit of a fairly standard netbook design illustrates the power of

Via this Slate article from Farhad Manjoo (writer of tech-hype articles with Salon and now Slate), I just read about Droid, the typeface used in Google’s new Android phones. More specifically, he references this Forbes article, describing the background of the font, and its creator, Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation in Elk Grove, Illinois. Some background from the Forbes piece: In fonts, Google has a predilection for cute letters and bright primary colors, as showcased in the company’s o

Advanced Voice Search? Or have the reports of a Friday release been greatly exaggerated? The app was “expected” to make it’s appearance in the App Store this past Friday. TechCrunch is now telling us to look for it tomorrow! Google was under the impression that the application would be live on the App Store on Friday (obviously, since they pushed all significant press attention to it). Sometime Friday they found out Apple wouldn’t be pushing it, despite the fact that Google submitted it for rev

At first glance, the rumors make sense. Apple’s Safari browser has 6-7% market share, and currently uses Google as the search engine for both the standard and iPhone/iPod versions (unlike other browsers, you don’t have a choice). They also have a suite of personal productivity tools through Mobile Me that bring some hard core users to their servers daily. All of that traffic and usage equates to a lot of searches, which can be monetized heavily. Also, Apple can’t be super pleased with Google’s

Veveo today announced the launch of its WikiTap application, now available for both the iPhone and T-Mobile G1 (Google Android). WikiTap lets iPhone and G1 users quickly and easily search Wikipedia to get the most relevant results from the first keystroke. The WikiTap application also allows users to actively enhance and expand multimedia content relevant to an entry by uploading photos and videos. It is the first Wikipedia application developed for the iPhone and Android that allows people t

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Podcast downloads enabled in iTunes Since the iPhone 2.2 firmware has been seeded to developers, several leaks have surfaced that have given us some things to look forward to with the new software release. We recently posted an article that contained details on Google Street View, but we now have something else to get us that little bit more excited — podcast downloads! German blog Schimanke.com has published pictures that show the new firmware downloading podcasts within iTunes on the iPhone