Jan 07
This is your daily serving of iPhone and iPod Touch applications on sale. Today, iPhone Download Blog is bringing you the latest apps that are currently on sale in the App Store. Some of them are even free! If you were hesitating about buying any of these apps, now is the right time as most of these deals are for a limited time only.
Jan 06
Ever since Apple launched the App Store and the ability for developers to create applications for the iPhone, I thought about creating an application that would act as a remote for all your electronics such as TV, DVD, cable, etc… The problem is that I am not a developer and I don’t know anyone that could develop such an app, especially because the iPhone doesn’t have an IR (infrared) port…
Well it seems like my wish for a remote for iPhone has come true with UiRemote, an application developed by Canadian students.
With the help of this small accessory, you will be able to use your iPhone to control your TV, DVD, Cable box, Projectors, Digital Photo Frames, AC, Fans, & Backyard evil robots, whereever you go. Not only does it send out the remote control signals, you can easily teach it to learn any button on any standard Remote, or even a sequence of button clicks as a macro.
Take note, this is not some bulky infrared remote boxes that you have to connect using Wifi, and cannot be moved around. This standalone accessory, in its final prototype form, is only the size of a finger tip, and require nothing but your iPhone to control devices and learn new remote commands. We are going to make it even smaller after further adjustments. You can conveniently slip it into your pocket and take it to your friends/bars/meetings/work/etc. and impress them with this new thing you can do with your iPhone.
This is still a prototype at the time and these guys are obviously still tweaking it but they say they plan to release the actual Infrared Module and the Application in the next couple of months. Now that’s an app that I’m really looking for. Check out the video below and tell us what you think about it.
Jan 06
This is your daily serving of iPhone and iPod Touch applications on sale. Today, iPhone Download Blog is bringing you the latest apps that are currently on sale in the App Store. Some of them are even free! If you were hesitating about buying any of these apps, now is the right time as most of these deals are for a limited time only.
Jan 05
We’ve talked in the past about Sling and their SlingBox, a digital box you connect to your cable box, dish receiver, or DVR and allows you to grab either live or recorded video from that source, anywhere in the world that you can connect to the Internet.
It seems that Sling will be demonstrating SlingPlayer for the iPhone at MacWorld this week and they will be submitting their app to the App Store sometimes in the next few weeks. SlingPlayer will allow you to watch cable TV directly from your iPhone!
Here are a few highlights from the press release:
“SlingPlayer Mobile is ideally suited for the iPhone’s large touch screen display and I know iPhone users are eagerly anticipating the application’s availability,” said Blake Krikorian, co-founder and CEO of Sling Media. “Add to that HD streaming support for Slingbox PRO-HD customers and live TV support on our video entertainment site, Sling.com, and you can see Sling Media is committed to delivering great solutions for Mac users.”
SlingPlayer Mobile gives consumers their entire home TV experience, including local channels, local sports teams, video on demand, pay per view, etc. Any program that you can watch on your sofa back home, you can now watch via your iPhone using a standard network connection (3G Cellular, WiFi). In addition, SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone users can also control their home digital video recorder (DVR) to watch recorded shows, pause, rewind, and fast forward live TV, or even queue new recordings while on the road.
Pricing and Availability
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone will be submitted to Apple for testing and approval in Q1. The price has not been determined at this time. SlingPlayer for Mac HD will be available for free via the web-based SlingPlayer within Sling.com later in Q1. Mac customers will be able to use either Safari or Firefox web browsers to get both HD streaming and Live TV within Sling.com.
Jan 05
This is your daily serving of iPhone and iPod Touch applications on sale. Today, iPhone Download Blog is bringing you the latest apps that are currently on sale in the App Store. Some of them are even free! If you were hesitating about buying any of these apps, now is the right time as most of these deals are for a limited time only.
Jan 04
This is your daily serving of iPhone and iPod Touch applications on sale. Today, iPhone Download Blog is bringing you the latest apps that are currently on sale in the App Store. Some of them are even free! If you were hesitating about buying any of these apps, now is the right time as most of these deals are for a limited time only.
Jan 03
Within the last few weeks, I’ve been working on a new “project” for this blog. I wanted to have all new applications from the App Store directly seeded to the blog, but most importantly, I wanted to show all the apps that are currently on sale in the App Store. So I worked with a web developer to bring you 3 new types of information:
- New apps and games: every single game or application added to the App Store is now automatically added to this section of the blog. It’s pretty much like an online version of iTunes App Store.
- Apps on sale: because Apple doesn’t make it easy for you to find out what apps are currently on sale, I added this section to the blog. Every single application on sale in the App Store will now show up there.
- Daily recap of apps on sale: It is a daily summary of all apps that are currently on sale today, in one convenient blog post.
Since there are hundreds of new apps and apps on sale everyday, I have them NOT show up on the homepage of the blog, or else, you would never see anything else but apps… Only the daily recaps of apps on sale show up on the homepage.
For your convenience, I created 3 new RSS feeds:
- New Apps and games feed: Subscribe in a reader - Subscribe by email
- Apps on sale: Subscribe in a reader - Subscribe by email
- Daily recap of apps on sale: Subscribe in a reader - Subscribe by email
And there is always the general blog feed that shows all the posts, except the new apps and apps an sale (Subscribe in a reader - Subscribe by email).
On another note, I had a few emails from loyal readers complaining about the low quality and quantity of posts lately. The reason is pretty simple. I simply don’t have time! At some point, there were a few other people writing here with me but it seems they lost their motivation (I don’t blame them for that!).
I recently quit my full-time job and now have to rely solely on my skills to pay the bills, so no, I don’t have much time to blog about the iPhone, because this blog doesn’t pay the rent… I do have to focus on other projects that bring in money. I still do my best to blog here as much as I can. I don’t know if you noticed, but I’ve been pretty good at it within the last few days 
I am still looking for people to join me and blog here on a regular basis. So hit me up if you’re interested!
Jan 03
This is your daily serving of iPhone and iPod Touch applications on sale. Today, iPhone Download Blog is bringing you the latest apps that are currently on sale in the App Store. Some of them are even free! If you were hesitating about buying any of these apps, now is the right time as most of these deals are for a limited time only.
Jan 02
It takes a little bit of effort to find the “Bells and Whistles” hidden menu in Google Mobile but it’s here. When you launch the Google iPhone app and go to settings, you’ll see a few options to configure the app. While it may not look like there is anything below the “About” selection, swipe your finger upward to go below. Keep swiping for a while and you will see the secret menu.
So, what is so cool about these bells and whistles? Not much to be honnest… You can replace the default sounds with chicken or monkey noises. You can also change the color of the Google Mobile theme and see a live waveform when you talk.
There is one nice feature though: the “open links in app” option. I guess this should have been there in the first place but later is better than never as we say in French.
Jan 02
This is your daily serving of iPhone and iPod Touch applications on sale. Today, iPhone Download Blog is bringing you the latest apps that are currently on sale in the App Store. Some of them are even free! If you were hesitating about buying any of these apps, now is the right time as most of these deals are for a limited time only.
