Things has recently been updated to version 1.1, which ads the ability to sync to the Mac desktop client. The new update also added app badge support, and preference app support.
App badge support displays a numbered badge telling you how many items you have to-do today. To enable the badge Culture Code, the makers of Things, instruct users to visit their devices preferences and select the Things preferences where you will find new logging and badge options. To enable the sync feature users will be required to update the Mac client aswell. Cool! Now you can see how many “things” you need to get done before you’re off the hook - without even having to go into the app itself.
Things for the iPhone is currently priced at $9.99, and for the Mac can be purchased for $49.00. In comparison, OmniFocus, another to-do type of application for the iPhone, is priced at $19.99, and can be bought for the Mac for an astonishing $79.99! Ouch.
(via iPhone Alley)
Written by Jody Mitoma on August 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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The developers of TruPhone have made it possible to purchase a monthly plan for $14.99, offering 1,000 minutes of talk time in the US and Canada, and UK£7.49 for UK citizens.
James Tagg, CEO of TruPhone states:
“iPhone and Nokia owners who regularly call North America can purchase Truphone’s bundle to get ‘peace of mind’ pricing of just
1.5 US cents - 0.75 pence – per minute to the USA and Canada from anywhere in the world. People don’t want to calculate precise ‘per minute’ rates, or check tariff websites, or take a paid-for tariff ‘bolt-on’ to get a still-high rate. They simply want to feel comfortable about what they’re going to pay for the call they want to make.”
Check out a video of TruPhone in action just below:
Here are some important points for those interested:
A UK ‘pay monthly’ iPhone owner making a call to the USA or Canada, with O2’s International Traveller
Service option, is charged UK£0.17 per minute. This means that someone
making more than 45 minutes of calls to the USA/Canada in a month will
be better off with the Tru Saver bundle.- Without the International Traveller Service option (i.e. a customer
on O2’s £30 per month tariff), the otherwise-identical O2 customer is
charged UK£0.99 per minute. For this customer, the payback period on
the Tru Saver bundle is reduced to a little over seven and a half
minutes of calls - offering, effectively, a further 992.5 Tru Saver
minutes for free.
- Since the Tru Saver bundle applies for calls to the United States
and Canada from anywhere in the world, the payback period for an iPhone
user calling these countries while roaming are even shorter - as little
as three or four minutes in some cases, giving up to 996 effectively
free Tru Saver minut
(via iPhone Alley)
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Apple is blaming a problem with overheating iPods in Japan on faulty batteries, the company said in a statement Tuesday.In response to reports that Japan is investigating incidents of iPod nanos getting hot enough to scorch paper placed nearby, Apple acknowledged that "in very rare cases" first-generation iPod nanos sold between September 2005 and December 2006 can overheat.
This problem, which Apple said is extremely rare, causes "failure and deformation of the iPod nano."
The company said it has received reports about less than 0.001 percent of first-generation iPod nano units acting in this way, and has traced the problem to a single battery supplier. Apple did not name the supplier.
Apple added that there have been no reports of serious injuries or property damage due to the overheating problem, and no reports of incidents for any other iPod nano model.
The company advised iPod nano customers who have experienced an overheating battery or who have concerns to contact AppleCare. iPod nanos with faulty batteries will be replaced for free by Apple.
Apple's statement was in response to reports out of Japan Monday that the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry was investigating two separate incidents in Tokyo in which iPod nanos overheated, burning nearby paper and a woven straw mat.
In March, the Japanese ministry reported a similar incident, in which sparks flew out of an iPod nano.
Written by santhosh on August 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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The App Store has yet to avail a voice-based turn-by-turn GPS system for download.
With Apple’s new GPS features within the iPhone 2.0 firmware, you’d expect that a turn-by-turn, voice-based GPS system would of been available by now, but unfortunately, that is not the case.
TomTom, Garmin, and Magellan, some of the larger GPS companies of today, are very interested in the iPhone’s ability to do so, and will most likely reveal something sooner than later, however, nothing has been revealed to the public as of yet, and the App Store has been available for more than a month now.
One problem that may be getting in the way is Apple. Apple needs to approve all applications that are brought to their attention for the App Store, and it just may be that they aren’t agreeing with what is being brought to the table.
“We have made our navigation system run on the iPhone; it looks good and works very well,” said Dutch-based company TomTom, in a statement to msnbc.com. “We will have to look more closely to Apple’s strategy before we can say more about what kind of opportunities this will bring us.”
Garmin offers a $99/year “Garmin Mobile” plan for GPS-equipped smartphones, including certain models of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry and Samsung’s Blackjack. But nothing in turns of the iPhone, yet.
“We’re always looking at new phone platforms to expand into for Garmin Mobile, but we don’t have any announcements regarding the iPhone at this time,” said Jessica Myers of Garmin International.
Magellan spokesman Raphel Finelli said the company does “not have immediate plans for this, but we are looking into it.”
Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies market analyst, said “in talking to some of the guys in the software community, they believe we’ll see voice turn-by-turn directions within the next three months” for the iPhone, and certainly “before the end of the year.” Lets just hope he’s right.
Sal Dhanani, the co-founder of TeleNav, which is a GPS software maker, said that as soon as Apple announced the SDK, the company purchased a copy and started working on a GPS program for the iPhone.
“Just like every other developer, we signed up for the program and downloaded the SDK, even though there were some specific clauses in the developer agreement that said you can’t write GPS navigation applications,” he said.
Dhanani said TeleNav has proceeded ahead with its GPS program, TeleNav Navigator, for the iPhone, and found that it works quite well on the device “which is more than capable of providing an application like this,” he said. “The GPS worked really well.”
Another possibility is that Apple themselves are working on a GPS application for release within the App Store. This may be reason that Apple is not allowing other companies and developers to release such applications yet.
We’ll definitely let you know if there are any breakthrough announcements about voice-based turn-by-turn GPS systems for the iPhone in the future.
(via MSNBC)
Written by Jody Mitoma on August 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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TurkCell, the leading wireless phone carrier in Turkey, has announced that they will be bringing the iPhone 3G to Turkey some time later this year. TurkCell is the placeholder of 56% of the market in said country. Vodafone also announced in May that they would be bringing the iPhone there as well. This has yet to occur.
“We’re very excited to be working with Apple to
bring the iPhone 3G to Turkey,” said, Lale Saral Develioglu, Turkcell’s
chief marketing officer. “iPhone 3G represents the ultimate in mobile
device technologies, and we can’t wait to offer this innovative product to millions of mobile customers later this year.”
Plan pricing is not yet available, but once that information is revealed, we’ll be sure to share for you Turkish folks. If you’re at all interested in getting yourself an iPhone 3G, you can register to be notified as to when it will be available at here.
(via iPhone Alley)
Written by Jody Mitoma on August 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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