From the category archives:

iPhone Apps

Indie+Relief: Get cool apps and help Haiti

January 20, 2010

Indie developers for Mac and iPhone have joined forces to help raise money for Haiti recovery. They are selling their apps at Indie+Relief and donating all proceeds to Haiti relief funds via one of three charities:

Red Cross Doctors Without Borders UNICEF

There are some amazing apps on this list. If you are a Mac or iPhone user whose [...]

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When should iPhone boycott end?

August 8, 2009

Steven Frank makes a pertinent observation about his ban against the iPhone and App Store: The problem with my self-imposed iPhone boycott is I’m not sure how I know when it ends.

I said I wasn’t going to return to my iPhone “until there’s a resolution” with the various well-documented app store problems. But what does [...]

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Steven Frank leaves iPhone OS platform

July 31, 2009

Panic developer Steven Frank is mad as hell, and he ain’t taking it anymore:

There’s been no indication that Apple want to do anything to resolve the problems with app store policies that have been laid bare a hundred times over. There’s no indication of anything, as a matter of fact. Nothing. After a year. It’s [...]

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NNW and Google Reader love

July 31, 2009

I’ve finally gotten around to downloading the beta of NetNewsWire 3.2, which features Google Reader syncing. I’m excited about this, mostly for the impact it should have on the NNW iPhone app. As much as I love the NNW app for Mac, I loathe the iPhone version.

Google Reader is loved by many people, myself included. [...]

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Would you leave MobileMe with Push for Gmail?

July 8, 2009

Darrell Etherington at The Apple Blog is ready to leave MobileMe if Gpush makes it to the iPhone. Gpush is an iPhone app that would essentially bring push Gmail to the iPhone.

The question surrounding GPush isn’t whether it can pull off what it claims to be able to. That it can do just fine, as [...]

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Amazon kills Delicious Library iPhone app

July 7, 2009

On Twitter today, Wil Shipley (@wilshipley) of Delicious Monster posted this sad news:

Delicious Library for iPhone isn’t coming back as long as we’re using Amazon’s APIs, unless they decide to make an exception to section 4e.

As Brent Simmons said on his link blog: “I think this sucks, by the way.”

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Is it time to get satellite radio again?

July 7, 2009

From MacNN | SIRIUS XM iPhone app reaches 1 million downloads:

The SIRIUS XM iPhone application has been downloaded by more than 1 million users since its release on June 18th. The title quickly became the top free app in the music category during its brief two-week stint on the App Store. The free app delivers [...]

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Prowl: Get Growl on the iPhone

July 7, 2009

From Prowl: Get Any Growl Notifications Via Push On Your iPhone:

Now you can receive Growl notifications on your iPhone, too, in the form of push notifications, thanks to Prowl. I can’t even begin to explain how useful this could potentially be, depending on your usage.

As John Gruber said, “This opens up iPhone push notifications for [...]

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A Love Triangle: NetNewsWire and Google Reader

March 3, 2009

I’m stuck in a love triangle with two popular RSS readers, and I just can’t figure it out. I love them both but for very different reasons (and at very different times).

On the desktop, I prefer NetNewsWire for a variety of reasons:

Keyboard shortcuts for blog posting, Delicious posting, Twitter posting, etc. Easier keyboard navigation Sorting by date [...]

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Tweetie 2.1 takes over my iPhone Twittering

January 18, 2009

When I first started with Twitter, I tried a few Twitter apps for the iPhone. I settled on Twitterific, which I do not use on my Macs. (On my Macs, I use Twhirl.)

Twitterific for iPhone is great. I like the app. But it is missing a few things, such as

Not showing direct messages. Not showing [...]

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