Monthly Archives: March 2009

One of the most talked about features of webOS and the Palm Pre has been the super fast internet experience. According to ars technica, the iPhone 3.0 setup will also bring a speed enhancement which could pit it competitively against the Pre in this area.

“Early JavaScript benchmarks from iPhones running a beta of iPhone OS 3.0 suggest the new version will bring big speed gains to web apps running in Mobile Safari, even on existing iPhone hardware. With an average 3x speed improvement, some individual benchmarks reveal as much as an 16x increase in execution speed over the existing version of Mobile Safari in iPhone OS 2.2.”

Here is another release date rumour, but one we could probably all guess at this time. “Apple (AAPL) will probably show off its next iPhone on June 8.

That’s the first day of Apple’s 2009 Worldwide Developers Conference, which is when we expect the company to unveil its new iPhone and show off the final version of its iPhone 3.0 software.

More important: Will Apple CEO Steve Jobs present — or at least make an appearance — at WWDC? His medical leave is not scheduled to end until “late June,” so maybe not. But we wouldn’t be surprised if Steve made a cameo, either to show off the new iPhone or to announce that he was retiring as CEO…” More at Business Insider.

Trevor has just posted the following in the 247 forum. Feel free to add your choices to the list and we can build up a list of recommended iPhone applications that people can be more certain of before purchaisng-

Here’s a list of my most used applications (not including games). I would highly recommend all of these, so check them out if you’re bewildered by all the choices on offer in the App Store. I can’t guarantee that they’ll meet your requirements, but they are all excellent in their own way. Do you have any other great apps which you could add to this list?

• The Weather Channel – Detailed weather forecasts with video updates.
• 1Password – A companion to the slickest web-login/passord keeper on the Mac.
• Appigo Notebook – best notes app in the App store IMO.
• Omnifocus – expensive, but powerful personal task and project manager. Best when paired with the desktop app of the same name.
• Shopper – Easy to use shopping list.
• Wikiamo – Optimises Wikipedia pages for the iPhone and makes them a breeze to navigate.
• Groups – Slick UI makes managing your contact groups fun.
• Bloomberg – Quotes and financial news.
• What’s on? – Dead simple TV guide.
• Amazon Kindle – Biggest catalogue, lowest prices, easy to use.
• ITalk recorder – high quality voice recorder with wireless transfer to your desktop.
• USA Today – Slickest newspaper app out there. Fun and responsive.
• BBC Reader – Nowhere near as good as the USA today app – just OK.
• Units – Nicely done calculator style conversion utility.
• Wordbook – inexpensive dictionary and thesaurus
• Pandora – smart streaming radio which builds custom playlists of musically similar songs based on your choice of artist, song or composer.
• Public Radio – self-explanatory.
• Apple Remote – control iTunes and/or your Apple TV over wifi.
• Weightbot – Makes tracking your weight fun.
• Fandango – Watch film previews and book cinema tickets.
• Photogene – nicely done photo-editing app.
• AllRecipes dinner spinner – Just spin the dials to come up with dozens of great recipes.
• Amazon.com – heard of them?
• Ebay – ditto.
• Trails – Track your hiking, jogging and/or cycling activity.
• Tempo – Glorious UI. The easiest to use and most accurate metronome in the app store.
• Guitar Toolkit – A really nice collection of utilities for guitarists wrapped up in a lovely UI. I’m amazed by how well the tuner works.
• Google Earth – zoom in on your current location from outer space!