First looks; Griffin iTalk Recorder for iPhone

Sam’s Commentary:
Tested Griffin’s iTalk Recorder last week when I attended a Tina Turner concert. Attached is the live audio. I converted the AIFF file to Mp3, nothing else was altered.
iTalk Recorder is simple to use and easily records audio though I really think it needs volume/limiter controls.
I used the free iTalkSync application to transfer the [...]

AT&T Adds Online Account Setup for Its iPhone 3G Customers

Online Credit Check and Account Setup Reduce Wait Time in Stores Ahead of Holiday Shopping Season
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced that its iPhone 3G customers can set up accounts online before heading to the nearest store to activate and complete the purchase, reducing in-store wait times as the busy holiday shopping season approaches.

Tranquility for the iPhone and iPod touch

Tranquility offers relaxing, professionally-recorded environmental sounds designed to ease stress and help the user sleep. Beautiful images and gentle sounds calm the nerves, delight the senses and help soothe the savage beast that is our modern lives.
Along with an elegant interface and audio landscapes such as “Gentle Rain”, “Ocean Waves”, and “Desert Wind”, Tranquility is [...]

iPhone Backs into Success Against Kindle

The iPod Observer has an interesting article up about the iPhone going up against the Amazone Kindle as an ebook reader.
The iPhone is getting to be a popular book reading platform, perhaps by accident, according to Forbes on Thursday. The popular book reading app, Stanza, already has 395,000 downloads and is gaining at 5,000 [...]

Why I bought an iPod touch and not an iPhone

Prolific writer Dennis Sellers at Macsimum News has an interesting article on why he went with an iPod touch rather than an iPhone:
Two reasons. One: I’m very bad at misplacing and/or dropping my cell phone. I usually manage to locate my inexpensive, no-frills model, but if I lost it, I wouldn’t be too upset. However, [...]

AppMinute Interviews Plusmo CEO

We met up with Krishna Vedati, CEO of Plusmo at Mobilize Conference. Watch/hear what Plusmo is doing on the iPhone.
Plusmo Interview

Art on the iPhone/touch

Cult of Mac illustrates several sketches from the iPhone/iPod touch. Cool in my opinion as I’ve waited for years to draw on an Apple device.
Check it out.

Chihuly Glass Art Seen Through iPhone Lens

Glass art display largest exhibit Chihuly has ever done
I visited the Dale Chihuly Art Exhibit this past Friday at the de Young Museum of San Francisco
Chihuly is one of the world’s top glass art sculptors. His works have been featured across the US as well as around the world.
I decided to purposely NOT bring a [...]

‘Hi, I’m an iPhone and You’re Nobody’

Funny, yet insightful article by eWEEK pro Microsoft tech writer, Joe Wilcox.
Wonder if Microsoft’s Ballmer is still laughing? You decide.
Read his article here

Magic with the iPhone

Sam Levin interviews Mike Lee, ousted Founder of Tapulous

Mike Lee takes time out of his schedule to chat with AppMinute about his next move with respect to iPhone App development and the pursuit of inner sanctity..
AppMinute Interviews Mike Lee

New Jawbone Now Available at The Apple Store

Award-Winning Headset Met with Critical Accolades, Perfect for Drivers Looking for a Hands-Free Solution
 
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – August 27, 2008 – Aliph, the established market leader in noise eliminating Bluetooth® headsets, today announced that the new Jawbone, introduced in May and met with enormous success and rave product reviews, is now available in the Apple [...]

Magic on the iPhone

Ok, ok I have to admit it.. I was really into magic since 12 years old (only a few years ago). I still carry coin and card tricks with me as it’s a great ice breaker….

Need (iPhone) protection?

Just spoke with a fellow iPhone comrade. His iPhone was acting strange. Namely, the bottom half of his iPhone was not responding while touching the screen. He brought in the iPhone to an Apple Store. They looked inside the 30-pin connector and saw lint that had actually corroded inside.
Here’s a solution: Check out RadTech’s ‘Protectorz’ [...]

Possible Fixes For Constant App Crashing

Edward Kirk at iPhone Alley writes about a possible fix for unstable iPhones. He write in part “Many users (myself included) have been experiencing a lot of problems lately with apps on their iPhone crashing or simply not even launching. Two solutions to the problem have been discovered, but the first is definitely less than [...]

Macworld - iPhone apps help your friends find you

Macworld writer Dan Franks has a good article online that talks about iPhone apps that use the GPS in the iPhone 3G to allow your friends to find you. From the article “These apps—Breadcrumbs, GeoNumbers, Here I Am, Here I Am (yes, two apps with the same name), Over Here, and Ya Mapped—take advantage of [...]

The iPhone 3G: It May Not Be Perfect, But at Least It’s Invulnerable

Harry McCracken of Technologizer has a fun to read story on the iPhone 3G. From his post: “A few minutes ago, I was standing in my garage. I took a step and felt something under my right foot, after I’d already shifted my weight onto it. I looked down. It was my iPhone, sitting under [...]

Apple Matters list their Top 5 Applications for iPhone

Hadley Stern at Apple Matters list his Top 5 iPhone applications. A good list, and I agree with two of the five. Read it here and see if you agree.

Qik on iPhone?

Will we ever get a copy of Qik on the iPhone for non-jail broken iPhone? A little bird tells us the problem is not with Qik, but Apple…

Steven Frank of Panic, Inc. on the App Store

An excellent read, for both developers and users of iPhone Apps. From his post: “I work in the software industry so I can (A) solve problems that annoy me, and (B) make money on which to live. While I respect the GPL and Open Source movements, I believe that commercial software is a necessary and [...]

The 7 Best Free iPhone Apps for Young Professionals

From Best iPhone App: “There’s more to iPhones than just fun and the user base is far more powerful than “trendy Apple hipsters” so, if you have an iPhone, how can you leverage it to best develop as a young professional? Here are the seven best apps we’ve found, seven indispensable apps the for young [...]

New Stuff in the App Store

Writer Scott Kleinberg has a fun blog titled “iPhone, therefore I blog”, which you should bookmark. His latest post is all about Lots of new stuff in the App Store today.

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