Posts Tagged ‘iPhone Apps

When one of your favorite iPhone apps gets hit with a flawed update, you could wait for the developer to come out with a fix. Or, with the help of Time Machine, you can re-install the old version.

When one of your favorite iPhone apps gets hit with a flawed update, you could wait for the developer to come out with a fix. Or, with the help of Time Machine, you can re-install the old version. Here’s how.

“Cambridge, Mass.-based car-sharing service Zipcar this week launched an app that lets you locate and reserve one of its vehicles, unlock it using the iPhone touch-screen and drive it off the lot,” reports Jefferson Graham (usatoday.com). Graham notes that while there are many iPhone apps for autos “Zipcar’s app is the first to control the operation of a car.”

Filed under: Gaming , Software , Developer , iPhone , App Store , SDK Apple’s iPhone simulator built into Xcode is nice, but it doesn’t completely replicate the actual feel of playing with an iPhone (not to mention that things like multitouch and accelerometer info can’t be tested on screen). Enter iSimulate , a new app from a company called vimov. In conjunction with a program on your Mac, it allows you to take the input (including multitouch and accelerometer) of an iPhone, and wirelessly connect it to an app running on your monitor . The effect, as you can see above, is basically an iPhone controlling a big-screen app. Which has all sorts of possibilities.

For anyone trying to navigate Lollapalooza 2009, one of the biggest music festivals in the U.S, running August 7-9 in Grant Park, Chicago, Jim Dalrymple (www.loopinsight.com) reports that there are several iPhone apps for that.

Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch There are at least 27 Netflix related iPhone apps according to Macworld . Their purposes differ but most of them are designed to let you manage your movie queue. A new player is about to enter the arena: Netflix itself, who intends to bring “Watch Instantly” video streaming to the iPhone/iPod touch and the Nintendo Wii. At present Netflix streams over 12,000 movies and TV shows over a large variety of devices including Intel-based Macs . Todd Spangler of Mutichannel.com speculates, and I agree with him totally, that when released, streaming will be limited to Wi-Fi only

Filed under: Multimedia , Portables , Software With just a few months to go before launching the Windows Marketplace for mobile applications , Microsoft has published details on porting iPhone apps to its Windows Mobile platform. It’s a case study of the app Amplitude App Store link , which lets users hear far-off sounds with ease. It’s a detailed writeup that takes readers through the entire process.

With the recent news about outer space, it’s easy to get excited over space exploration. Roman Loyola looks at three space-related iPhone apps to fuel your newfound interest.

iPhone apps can offer a handy way to refresh a memory that’s gone blank in the face of an emergency. But in our round-up of a quartet of first-aid reference tools, one app stood out among the rest.


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