Brussels // R.Bollen // 06-01-2009//
Well unfortunately no new iPhone or iPhone Nano has been released but most of the new products that are in store now, have some kind of iPhone compatibility. Let’s sum them up from the keynote live coverage of Engadget.

1. iLife ‘09 has been released and the new iPhoto app has a new feature called places, places can organize photos around where they have been taken. It uses the geotagging feature from the iPhone. When you make a photo with the iPhone it uses the build-in GPS to tag it’s location. So this is a great welcome for us iPhone users.

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Remember that proof-of-concept you saw way back in June of last year? You know, that one involving SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone? Here at Macworld, Sling Media is doing its darnedest to take the spotlight away from the looming Apple keynote by announcing that said app is almost ready for consumption. It’ll be demonstrating a functional version in San Francisco, and it’s planning to submit the software to Apple for certification sometime this quarter.

In case you couldn’t care less, it’ll also unveil a prototype SlingPlayer for Mac HD, which will enable Mac-using Slingbox PRO-HD owners to stream high-def material to their Mac. As for the good stuff, pricing has yet to be determined for the SlingPlayer iPhone app, but the SlingPlayer for Mac HD will be made available gratis.

Read More www.engadget.com

Daylite has already established itself as a pre-eminent organization and business-management tool on the Mac. The application from Marketcircle manages contacts, tracks projects and to-dos, schedules meetings, shares calendars, and essentially keeps everything organized for up to 50 users on individually licensed Macs.

Marketcircle had announced back in June that it planned a mobile version of its management and organization app for the iPhone. That program hasn’t arrived in the App Store just yet, but Marketcircle has taken a big step toward delivering on that promise—it’s demoing a version of the iPhone app, dubbed Daylite Touch, at this week’s Macworld Expo.

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How awesome is this. Words almost can’t describe it. Ever thought of using your iPhone, together with some old kids toys and some solid robotics know-how to create your very own beer-pouring machine?

I know I haven’t. But this guy has.


Read More www.intomobile.com

Portable Arts has released version 1.0 of Grossinator, an iPhone/iPod Touch Human Sound Machine. Various unique features allow users to catch their victims off guard with over eighty sounds to choose from. Grossinator gives users their choice of over 80 human body sounds. Sounds are organized into three different sound categories, sounds from the mouth, sounds from the rump, and sounds from the nose. In each category, users can choose from different sounds grouped by type and play that sound.

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HearPlanet chose a San Francisco tour bus as their launch party venue.  What better way to introduce a product that’s all about turning your cell phone into a talking tour guide?  During the week of Macworld (starting January 5th) the HearPlanet application is Free.

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FMWebschool announces a free MacWorld Expo contacts and exhibitor FileMaker 10 database for the Apple iPhone as well as a free FileMaker powered contacts and exhibitor website for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Instantly add all of your contacts and exhibitors to your iPhone. The FileMaker solution will enable you to enter and save all of your contact information immediately.

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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., January 5, 2009 - Hudson Entertainment, the North American publishing arm for Hudson Soft, announced today the release of Crayon Physics Deluxe, now available for the iPhone and iPod touch. An award-winning title that is set to bring a new level of creativity and imagination to the iPhone and iPod touch, Crayon Physics Deluxe is a revolutionary 2D physics puzzle game that allows users to create drawings that can be transformed and fully interactive within the environment of the game by utilizing the touch screen.

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Roxio today announced the immediate availability of Toast® 10 Titanium, the latest version of the company’s market-leading burning and digital media software for the Mac®. The latest version helps greatly enhance and extend Mac OS X and iLife® applications with a broad range of additional capabilities for creating, sharing, and enjoying personal digital media content.

read it here www.desinformado.com

Today, we’re open sourcing our iPhone time tracking app.

It’s been hard to build iPhone applications. If you don’t know Objective-C, and you don’t know the iPhone SDK, there is a steep learning curve. I’ve talked to a lot of FreshBooks customers over the past year that want to build iPhone applications, and many of them have gotten stuck because few companies have shared their code.

read it here www.freshbooks.com

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new, free ABC News iPhone application.

Our application enables you to get the best of ABC News whenever and wherever you want. And it takes advantage of some of the great features of the iPhone, using location-based technology to give you local news, and multimedia capabilities to bring you one of the best mobile video viewing experiences of any news site.

Read More abcnews.go.com

Tee-Boy announces the premier release of it’s new application: Tee-John, The Bayou Philosopher, for Apple’s iPhone and iPod/Touch hand-held devices. Designed to be a fun and entertaining application for everyone, Tee-John, The Bayou Philosopher, provides users with over a dozen quips of wit and wisdom with full audio in both English and Cajun French. Tee-John is intuitive and easy to use: just turn up the volume and tap the “speak” button to hear one of many nuggets of non-sensical wisdom.

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Developers Mark Morris and Dave Florek have introduced a Facebook application for monitoring the high score table hosted at PlayTorus for their iPhone and iPod Touch game Torus. Torus High Scores is available now on the Facebook application directory, enabling players to follow the action from their profiles. Also announced is a price reduction or Torus.

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Danilo Campos has released version 1.0 of Oddage, an iPhone/iPod Touch game. In Oddage, players are faced with four words - three that are similar and one that does not belong. Fast brains are rewarded with more points, while the list of possible choices grows. Oddage presents an engaging, polished gameplay experience. It has also been tuned to the specific needs of iPhone/iPod Touch users. Oddage exists to bring an end to the small spells of boredom in the lives of iPhone users.

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Attendees to this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo can check out Wi-Ex, the leading provider of consumer cell phone signal boosters, at the touch of their iPhone through the new iMacworld application. The comprehensive mobile guide allows access to all Macworld Conference & Expo information and select exhibitor information. This free application, which can be currently found in the iPhone Apps Store, also provides updates in real time during the show.

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Texas based Mobile PDA and Smartphone market leader, WebIS Inc. today announced that it will be showing its incredibly popular PIM, Pocket Informant, for the iPhone and iPod Touch at MacWorld 2009. Pocket Informant is the premiere Personal Information Manager for Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices. Version 1.0 will offer Agenda, Week, Month, and Day views for the calendar, a Today view, a Tasks view with full GTD capability, Context, Projects, Next Action, Inbox, Search, and more.

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Atlanta based Widget Press, Inc. is proud to introduce ModelBaker 1.0, their new rapid application development tool for Mac OS X. ModelBaker features point and click development for web, iPhone, iPod touch and Google Android applications.

With zero programming required, anyone can rapidly build corporate intranets, create custom web applications from scratch, offer mobile access from an iPhone, iPod touch, Google Android mobile, and more. And, build it all with a single mouse click.

read it here prmac.com

Apple is very aware that a crucial aspect to the success of a new platform is getting developers on board. Requiring a Mac for all iPhone development isn’t a good start. That’s the first barrier of entry for a lot of developers, like me, who came from a Linux or Windows background. Strike one. Objective C, even though I have come to like it, isn’t exactly a hot, popular language (although that’s changing a bit). Strike two. Fortunately, Apple doesn’t strike out and gets everything else right. They provide a top-notch development environment, tools, and great APIs.

read it here gamesfromwithin.com

Everybody knows the camera on the iPhone is a bit rubbish. It’s a 2-megapixel snapper that doesn’t even do video. And don’t get us started on the media messaging thing! But the strength of the iPhone--besides its sleek styling, seamless software integration and glorious user interface--is the range of applications you can add to your phone.

read it here asia.cnet.com

Even if you didn’t make a resolution to lose weight this year, you probably have some fitness goals you would like to achieve in the new year. To help, we’ve put together a list of the top 10 free iPhone apps to help you lose weight and get into shape.

From calorie trackers to fitness tutorials, you can find pretty much anything you could ever want for managing your diet, weight, and fitness goals — best of all, they’re all free. Now you have no more excuses. Download one or more of these apps and get going. Here’s to staying motivated in 2009!

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Appsamuck is a resource for new iPhone developers. They provided one new app per day with source for 31 days. I’m not sure when this began, but it is finished and all 31 apps are there waiting for newbie developers to pick over.

In their welcome, Appsamuck say:
Over the years, we have given many presentations on developing Mobile applications. One thing that we have heard time and time again is that people have a hard time writing their first mobile application. We think sometimes people have a hard time taking those first steps. It is easy to think that it will take too much time, and that it will be too hard. But that is simply not the case. But instead of telling people, we are going to show them how easy it really is.

The examples aren’t tutorials though, that is, there’s no explanation of the hows and whys of the code. But anyone with a bit of nous should be able to nut out what’s going on and find examples of methods they can apply to their own applications

Read More appsamuck.com

Knowing that it is unlikely that Apple would ever release an iPhone Pro with physical keyboard, Mat Brady from planetmat has sent me another image of a potential accessory. It looks great.

Mat says that he created the accessory answering readers’ feedback on sliding keyboards.

read it here gizmodo.com

iPhonetunes member Tony Karakashian reviewed Saturday Night Fever

To be honest, when Robin asked me to review this game, I shuddered. Having grown up in the 70s, I could only imagine what I was in store for with this game.  Worse, since these games are tie-ins to recent movies, I had to wonder: was Paramount thinking of releasing an updated Saturday Night Fever?  I tried not to think about it…

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With only one day left on the 2008 calendar Softbank finally released the highly anticipated 1-Seg TV tuner and battery for the Apple iPhone. Say what you will about the iPhone’s steep challenge in Japan, but Softbank has come through with one of the best Apple accessories ever to hit the market.

The device looks almost exactly like the iPhone itself but feels incredibly lightweight thus allowing the add-on to fit perfectly into the high-bar aesthetic tastes of most Apple fans.

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Just in time for those new year resolutions, PushupFu is a new paid-for iPhone/iPod Touch application designed to get you fit, via press-ups. There are now a lot of fitness apps available for the iPhone. Current leader WeightBot lets you weigh yourself daily. Other like iPump let you email your progress to virtual Gym buddies.

read it here uk.techcrunch.com