Filed under: iPhone, App Store, SDK
iPhone App News Roundup: June 20, 2008
The thundering herd of announced iPhone apps keeps coming! By popular demand, TUAW will be publishing the iPhone App News Roundup every day as long as we keep getting announcements from developers.- Hungry? Chef On Your iPhone from Chef's Little Helper can help you pull up recipes and put together a grocery list.
- xhead software is moving info.xhead, their secure information manager for Mac, to the iPhone.
- If you use iZepto for time tracking, it's time to cheer! They'll have iZepto on the iPhone available soon!
- Jeff Grossman wants you to go to the movies! His Movies.app theater and movie finder can tell you what's showing when at the nearest cinema.
- UK developers VisualIT are working on Tube 2 for iPhone and iPod touch. You'll love this app if you ride the London Underground.
- Zoosware is releasing Mobile Holy Quran and American Sign Language for iPhone.
- One of the most popular Windows Mobile PIM apps, Pocket Informant, is being readied for iPhone. The app features full two-way over-the-air synching. Developer WebIS is also working on Note2Self and Touch2Notes.
- Logic High Software is planning for a July release of xHunt, a treasure hunt application leveraging the GPS receiver and camera of the iPhone 3G.
- Developer Dimitri Bouniol is working on a detailed periodic table of the elements app called Periods.
- Last but not least, it's not an app, but longtime iPod case manufacturer Speck is making six colorful PixelSkin cases for the iPhone 3G.
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blinkcowz182 said 10:12AM on 6-20-2008
Not to be childish and immature...but periods? I think he may want to re-think that name...
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tevetorbes said 10:36AM on 6-20-2008
Um, so if you didn't want to be childish and immature, how about not making the comment altogether?
As for the app itself, WebElements is the go-to site for elemental queries, and of course the iPhone has internet access, so I can't see how a pay-for app like Periods will be at all useful, even to chemists.
Furthermore, I have never ever felt the need to access WebElements from my iPhone "on-the-go."
Guy01: Gee Frank, what's the radius of Strontium?
Guy02: Ionic or covalent?
Guy01: Surprise me.
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Ben K. said 11:00AM on 6-20-2008
Yeeeep, I was thinking the same thing.
Jash Sayani said 10:35AM on 6-20-2008
Periods...? I thought that there would be a SDK Samples section in AppStore and the app "Elements" would be there.
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dagamer34 said 11:45AM on 6-20-2008
Movies.app should have been included with the iPhone in the first place! If he charges just $1 for that app, he'll make a bundle!
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dagamer34 said 11:45AM on 6-20-2008
Movies.app should have been included with the iPhone in the first place! If he charges just $1 for that app, he'll make a bundle!
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samu said 11:51AM on 6-20-2008
Hmmm. The Speck site thinks my browser is a little out of date, and encourages me to upgrade to Firefox 2 or Internet Explorer 7. I'm on Fx3. NOT very 1337 of you, Speck people.
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Jaioxung said 12:20PM on 6-20-2008
I just noticed that too and was on my way to write a comment when I saw yours.
R. Layton said 1:55PM on 6-20-2008
How do I get in touch with Jeff Grossman? A couple of his domains are expired and can't find any contact info on the page you linked to for Movies.app. I have some questions for him.
Thanks
Ryan
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Jeffrey Grossman said 5:32PM on 6-21-2008
Ryan - I added my e-mail address to the web page at www.moviesapp.com/native/ so you can contact me
Steve said 7:14PM on 6-20-2008
Do developers have access to the mic on iPhone? (i assume they do as Steve said voip would work on WiFi). If so, does anyone know of anyone planning on doing dictation software or any other voice recognition software?
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Gadget Chick said 2:24PM on 6-21-2008
i would assume they would considering apple did say they would allowed voip apps.
Jon Freed said 9:58PM on 6-20-2008
Is there any word on an official IM client?
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Gadget Chick said 2:23PM on 6-21-2008
AIM is making an official app. they announced that when the SDK was first revealed.
mobilechat from twenty08 will support multiple clients and seem very promising but i dont know if it will be free.
Gadget Chick said 2:21PM on 6-21-2008
movies.app looks really good. plus its free cannot wait. the original web app is so helpful.
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