Filed under: Education, Odds and ends, Internet Tools, iPhone, iPod touch
Wolfram|Alpha now has an iPhone portal
The knowledge engine at the heart of the recently launched Wolfram|Alpha site can answer queries that would baffle traditional search engines. It can make amazing comparisons, perform linguistic searches, and provides a way to do calculations that are impossible elsewhere other than in a copy of Mathematica.Now there's a mobile Web portal for Wolfram|Alpha that is designed for viewing on either an iPhone or iPod touch. Point Safari on your mobile device to http://www.wolframalpha.com/iphone, and you can compute queries as well as test most of the functionality of the Wolfram|Alpha engine. You'll need to set a bookmark icon on your home screen to go back to the page (just press the + icon at the bottom of the Safari screen).
Wolfram is also asking for input on what people would like to see in future versions of mobile websites or apps. You can join the conversation here.
Are any TUAW readers eagerly waiting for Mathematica Mobile to be released for the iPhone platform?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mike said 8:09PM on 6-15-2009
Wolfram Alpha is bullshit and a lier.
Input interpretation: Are you SkyNet?
Result: No, Skynet was destroyed on August 29, 1997 at 02:14 a.m. I, on the other hand, was not switched on until May 15, 2009. Furthermore, unlike Skynet, I enjoy interacting with humans.
Source: http://www57.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Are+you+SkyNet
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JessicaAlba said 7:43AM on 6-16-2009
I tried this out at http://interactiveiphone.com and it is about the same as the normal portal…
Guess what, Wolfram | Alpha still SUCKS!
samu said 8:09PM on 6-15-2009
You can save some tapping and just go to wolframalpha.com; it automatically feeds you the iPhone page.
"You'll need to set a bookmark icon on your home screen to go back to the page (just press the + icon at the bottom of the Safari screen)."
Why would you NEED to do that? I can get back there fine by typing "wo..." in the address bar...
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Ryan S. said 8:25PM on 6-15-2009
Wow. This is OLD. I figured that out when I was at home depot, converting sizes. That was about a month ago... *cough*
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Pandastew said 9:19PM on 6-15-2009
so, yeah, this has been around for weeks, all you had to do was look up "Iphone wolframalpha" on google and this would have come up.
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Nuno Sousa said 10:29PM on 6-15-2009
Been using the iphone wolframalpha since week 1. No news here. Move along folks.
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oliver hart said 12:36AM on 6-16-2009
I'm just now hearing about it. Thanks geritol. I mean tuaw
wako said 11:28PM on 6-15-2009
damnit! I wish someone informed me of this earlier. I wouldve used it when I was taking my exams for calculus... i mean... no i wouldnt =X
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Jim In Holland said 2:47AM on 6-16-2009
And it's pretty useless when the RESULTS aren't in iPhone format!
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Billy said 3:16AM on 6-16-2009
true, it sucks! what's the use of having a fancy iphone webapp when inside it's still the same???
Heebie said 3:41AM on 6-16-2009
Once again, an epic fail on TUAW's part. This is old, irrelevant and useless. Write tutorials, post tips and tricks, or update us with interesting news from Cupertino or elsewhere which is relevant.
Stop posting everytime someone makes an app or a webapp for the Goddamn iPhone. There's a site for that (namely http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/).
/justified rant
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joshua said 10:18AM on 6-16-2009
Looks like it works fine on the Palm Pre as well. There are some conversions and calculations its good at, better than google. Like the network bandwidth stuff it gives me an answer when google fails me. Like how long will 50GB take to download at 20Mb/s. Stuff like that.
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