Agile Messenger is a new iPhone Instant Messaging client app that showed up on Installer today - and from what I’ve seen so far, this is the best iPhone IM app yet!
Up to now Fring was my favorite iPhone IM client, because of its broad IM services support and strong background-running capabilities - but Agile Messenger matches up in both those areas, and goes well ahead due to its super slick interface and a bunch of cool features.
A new study amongst consumers who are in the market for a smartphone - by investment bank RBC Capital Markets - shows "unprecedented pent-up demand" for the new iPhone 3G. The study has some very impressive numbers for iPhone demand, and some shockingly poor numbers for just about everyone else in the smartphone market.
Some of the highlights form the survey of 3,600 RBC Technology Adoption Panel members:
More than half - 56% - of of consumers planning to buy a new smartphone in the next 90 days are set on getting the iPhone.
A further 25% who said they may buy an iPhone 3G ’sometime in the future’
There’s a new backup option available for the iPhone - and it’s a good one. iPranks BackupUtility (not keen on the name at all, but there ya go) let’s you do all of your backing up and restoring straight from a Windows PC.
You only need to install the program on a Windows machine (not sure if there any plans for a Mac version), nothing needs to be installed on the iPhone itself. Setup triggered some virus alerts (false alarms) for me, so you may need to disable your AV scanner while installing iPranks Backup Utility.
Ummmm, beer. I’m a big fan of beer. So the upcoming Brewing Buddy iPhone application sounds a very good one to me. It’s described as:
A beer recipe calculation tool, brewing helper, and social recipe sharing application all on the iPhone.
Some of its features include:
Helps you formulate a beer recipe to a particular style or your own style
Will help you by being your timekeeper
Will let you share recipes via a recipe trading site
Lets you keep tons of great brewing information at your fingertips
BrewingBuddy will be a free app, and should be available soon after the App Store launches. More details about it can be found at the developers site HERE.
I’ve never managed to get my act together to do my own home brews(though I have enjoyed several good ones via friends’ efforts) - maybe BrewingBuddy will give me that little extra push on this one
Remember Navizon? It was the first pseudo-GPS app for the iPhone, and its jailbreak version still has some cool features that you don’t get with the Google Maps application.
Now a new feature called MobFindr has been added, which gives you an ability to send an SMS to the iPhone from any phone - using a special passphrase that you setup in the program - and have it send back a text with its exact current location details.
Pretty cool if your baby goes missing or, as the demo video suggests, perhaps for keeping tabs on your kid / kid’s iPhone.
This feature is available now in the current version of Navizon. To see a video demo of the feature in action, just click the graphic at the top of this post.
Now the only question is how many will still be using Navizon in coming months, as I haven’t seen anything on it coming to the App Store, it seems likely to remain a jailbreak-only app …
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.
But that is just the start of the crap. Later I have listed things like Windows XP Hotfix see Q329048 for more information. What is Q329048? Why are these series of patches listed here? Some of the patches just things like Q810655 instead of saying see Q329048 for more information.
What an absolute mess.
The father of Windows.
Many of you will have probably seen this classic email rant from none other than Bill Gates, on his painful and farcical experience when just trying to get Moviemaker installed. Just thought I’d share it for anyone who didn’t catch this yet.
Friday was Gates’ last day as a full-time exec at Microsoft. This email is just one small example of why MS will miss him, a lot.
The full email is superb and hilarious. Check it out at:
If you’re big on iPhone themes and changing them round often, MMiThemer is a great app to look at. It’s not brand new - I’ve been meaning to post about it for a little while now.
MMiThemer gives you access to a large number of iPhone themes from the ModMyiFone forums site’s repository. Most or all of these will not show up in Installer, so you need this app in order to see them.
ModMyiFone’s members have been a rich source of a large number of iPhone themes for quite a while now - and of many of the most creative and new sort of themes as well, things like Leaf and Vista Perfection, just to name two quick examples.
Before this app came along, I had a habit of checking the New Themes and Skins forum section at MMi quite regularly to see what new stuff was around - now it is much quicker to check things out via MMiThemer on the iPhone.
The app shows you Latest and Popular theme sections (Featured section does not work for me) and refreshes those each time you launch them. Once you install a theme via MMiThemer, you still need to use Summerboard to manage and select your theme.
Posted By Ragart on Sunday, June 29, 2008 under General | 2 Comments
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So Rogers recently released the data phone plans for the iPhone 3G in Canada, and boy oh boy, are they ridiculous. Let’s discount the prices, the three year contract (AT&T is two), the fact that there are fewer weekday minutes than AT&T plans, and let’s focus on the data portion of the plan. There are four levels of plans here, and none of them offer unlimited data. They start at 400 MB and end at 2 GB. You’ve got the internet in your pocket, but it’s on a leash. The 3G iPhone is about blazing a trail through the internet and not looking back. Counting your megabytes like you count your weekday minutes is not supposed to happen.
Anyway, if you’re even a quarter as outraged by this news as we are here at JAiB, give us a hand and sign this form at RuinediPhone.com. They’ve got 8898/10000 signatures (next goal is 25,000). Please sign up and help put a dent in Rogers evil plan to gouge all living creatures with a wireless signal.
Posted By PatrickJ on Sunday, June 29, 2008 under General | 4 Comments
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It’s been one year already since the iPhone was launched. It still doesn’t feel that long ago to me that I was ravenously refreshing the Engadget live blog of Steve’s MacWorld keynote in January 2007 announcing it.
I remember just how wowed I was by it. It was like nothing that had come before it - so obviously a game-changing device. I’d never been a huge Apple fan - at the time I hadn’t used a Mac in many years and had never even owned an iPod.
But I was an instant iPhone fan. Knew I would have to have one - no question at all. It was amazing looking. Better still, it was big-time powerful - running a version of Max OS X !!! - that was a holy shit moment when that was mentioned.
I’ve only recently discovered the Revision 3 site for internet TV - but have been enjoying it whole lot and getting hooked on several of its featured shows. And I watch it almost exclusively on the mobile version of the site on the iPhone.
If you haven’t come across Revision 3 yet, it’s home to a cool collection of web TV shows - like The Digg Reel (best of Digg sort of compliations), the live Diggnation shows, Tekzilla for tech news, reviews and tips, The Totally Rad Show, and lots more.
The market for jailbreak apps is ONLY in countries where there is no App Store. Hackers and non-mainstream apps will move over to Android… — Craig Hockenberry, IconFactory (makers of Twitterific)
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