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Posts in October 2008

Documents to Go (Word, Excel, PowerPoint viewing): Coming Soon for iPhone

Posted 31 October 2008 @ 12pm in Applications, News

DataViz, publisher of the venerable Palm OS application Documents to Go, has announced its plans to bring a version of the application to the iPhone. The software allows users to view and edit Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and Excel Spreadsheets and offers many other features, including the ability to display graphic files.

Some features available [...]

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AT&T’s Free iPhone Wi-Fi Requires a Cell Connection

Posted 31 October 2008 @ 8am in News

Rafe Needleman of our sister site WebWare reports on his experience with AT&T’s newly offered free WiFi for iPhone users:

“[...] the images I had of just sauntering in to a Starbucks, selecting the local Wi-Fi network and jumping on the Internet were busted when I read these ridiculous instructions for getting access:

Activate Wi-Fi from the [...]

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XPlay Allows You to Browse your iPhone/iPod touch Like Any Other Drive

Posted 30 October 2008 @ 10am in Applications

Mediafour has released new version of XPlay, version 3.1, that adds iPhone and iPod touch drive letter access. This means that, as a Windows users, you can now browse the iPhone and iPod touch directly. Open “My Computer” and the phone and touch are listed with drive letters. You can transfer files back and forth, [...]

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Apple’s MobileMe Improvements: Have You Noticed a Difference?

Posted 30 October 2008 @ 8am in Uncategorized

We’ve noted a wide array of MobileMe issues as they relate to iPhone users, including an issue in which MobileMe email accounts all send mail through the primary email name, drops in service and more.

Now Apple claims that a major overhaul of MobileMe will result in better access across platforms, including the iPhone. In a [...]

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AT&T’s Free iPhone WiFi: Starbucks and other hot spots

Posted 29 October 2008 @ 5pm in News

Earlier today, AT&T issued the following text message to its iPhone-using subscribers:

“AT&T Free Msg: Your Apple iPhone new has free AT&T Wi-Fi access at thousands of hotspots nationwide, including Starbucks. For info visit www.att.com/attwifi

This announcement ends the drama surrounding the months of speculation regarding the premature free Wi-Fi announcements that kept popping up on AT&T’s [...]

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Safari Bookbag - Your Library on Your iPhone

Posted 29 October 2008 @ 8am in News

Safari Books Online has announced Safari Bookbag, a free App for the iPhone that allows you access to downloading chapters or full books in PDF format from your Safari Books Online library.

Users of the Safari Books Online service can sync their iPhone with the “My Downloads” library from their Safari account. Once downloaded onto your [...]

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iPhone 2.2 Asks: “Deleting that App? Please Rate It!”

Posted 28 October 2008 @ 7am in Applications

We’ve already reported on iPhone OS 2.2 enhancements, which include Google Street View, Bus Schedules, viewing walking and transit directions instead of driving directions, and the ability to share locations with other users.

Now a Greek language website, iPhone Hellas, is reporting that when a user decided to delete an App from their iPhone running OS [...]

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Palm OS Apps Ported to the iPhone: HanDBase

Posted 28 October 2008 @ 6am in Applications

DDH Software has announced the release of HanDBase for the iPhone and iPod touch. HanDBase is a popular mobile database application ported from Palm OS (and Windows Mobile). It costs $9.99.

This is the first and only self-contained relational database for the iPhone OS of which we are aware. It is standalone and does not require [...]

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Extensive iPhone OS 2.2 Screenshots: Google Street View, Bus Schedules, more

Posted 27 October 2008 @ 10am in Development, News

Over the weekend, we reported on the release of iPhone OS 2.2 beta 2 for developers. The new revision adds support for audio-in devices in all third-party applications, meaning apps will be able to receive audio input on all devices and possible paving the way for genuine VOIP applications for the iPod touch. It also [...]

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iPhone 3G Nearly Unlocked, but Does It Matter?

Posted 27 October 2008 @ 9am in News

The original iPhone was released with limited availability; the iPhone 3G was released with a wide distribution that has expanded since the rollout. The iPhone 3G can now be bought from a sanctioned carrier in most major world markets.

Given the device’s broad availability, are baseband unlocks still important? The iphone-Dev Team seems to think so, [...]

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