Evernote - a huge favorite application for myself, Brandon, Dan and just about all of us here - has now finished its extensive private beta period and is open for everyone to sign up for an use.
If you haven’t had a chance to try out Evernote yet, you absolutely need to. It is a superb, do-it-all notes and photos and all-around information capturing tool that is incredibly versatile and powerful. It also has an excellent iPhone web-based client, and I have a feeling probably a native app in the works somewhere.
Google continues to constantly tweak and improve the iPhone Google Reader offering. Just recently they’ve added the ability to add notes and share items through the iPhone interface.
Good stuff. Google Reader is my most used web app on the iPhone, and every little extra function helps.
Whenever I can tear myself away from fervently day-dreaming about upcoming App Store apps, I’m still discovering new and useful web apps for the iPhone pretty often.
Phoenix Mars is one that’s caught my eye this week. It’s a simple app that provides the latest news from the Phoenix Mars Mission - with a mission time counter showing the days / hours / minutes that the Phoenix Lander has been on Mars, as well as an RSS feed of daily news items from the mission.
There have been sites around offering iPhone optimized viewing of Wikipedia pages virtually since the iPhone launched - but the latest offering from Powerset in this area really kicks all the others to the curb.
Powerset offers a very simple search interface when you first hit its main page, and then offers superbly tailored results for the iPhone very quickly. Results pages are a joy to work with - extremely well laid out for finding main articles, offshoot topics, related links and images etc.
Whereas other iPhone Wikipedia sites have tended to focus on optimizing the rendering of the pages, Powerset aims at delivering the best set of results:
What sets Powerset apart, and may make it the premier way to look up information from the iPhone, is the search engine’s ability to find both the relevant article and the exact passage that pertains to the search query. Even through the iPhone sports a relatively large screen, browsing through large amounts of text can still be a pain, which makes this feature even more valuable.
I love following baseball as its season invariably heats up as the summer wears on. I like the slow, dramatic pace of a good ballgame, and a good pennant race.
Ever since I was a kid figuring out what all the odd abbreviations in the box scores meant, I’ve also been especially hooked on all the statistics that go along with the game - so it’s always good to have options for following all the action, results, stats, and news from around the majors - and I’m glad to have found a good iPhone baseball site this evening - the Pro Baseball site from Plusmo.com.
The site is very clean-looking but still features quite bold graphics that make it easy and inviting to jump in and out of live scores, box scores, standings, and general league injury and player news.
Navigation is good and flows well, and in my usage so far all the pages and elements load very quickly. I think I recall seeing an MLB app for the App Store demo-ed at the WWDC last week, but this Plusmo baseball site is a good reminder that some web apps can still compete a fair little bit. I’ll be interested to see how much better (or worth paying for?) the official MLB app will end up being.
In the meantime, if you’re an iPhone baseball fan, you could do worse than check out Plusmo’s site at:
I’ve been meaning to do a post about the Mobile News NetworkiPhone optimized site for weeks now, as it was an instant favorite for me when it launched, and it has continued to be my favorite news site on the iPhone ever since.
The site is run by the Associated Press (AP). Recently I’ve seen a few reports speculating that the AP (Associated Press) are planning an iPhone native app for the App Store and would like to work their way into being a default home screen app on the iPhone. Right now, I’d be in favor of that, as I think they’ve already done a superb job with their optimized site.
There are plenty of over-ambitious web apps (and native ones for that matter) for the iPhone. Once in a while, it’s good to see a super simple one with an interesting purpose. Last night I was catching up on some of the newest web app offerings, spotted Word of the Day, and liked it enough to bookmark it.
WOTD was created by ‘The Nerd of NYC’ (great nomme de plume for apps developing) and uses words from dictionary.com.
I like it because it’s got a simple, single purpose and because it’s got an easy, comfortable self-improvement slant to it. I know, there are a zillion ways I could aspire to improve myself each day - but this one is just sooooo easy I just might make use of it on a regular basis - maybe even pick up a few words to share with my daughter now and again.
Schmap.com has a freshly iPhone-optimized site that offers US city guides and local search with some very cool mapping and other features thrown in.
Once you choose your city, the site is very well laid out into various top-level areas of interest to look at - everything from restaurants, bars and nightlife to tours, hotels, shopping, outdoor activities and more. In each of those main categories, you can choose to drill down to more specific areas that you’re after - types of cuisine under restaurants, nightclubs / wine bars / pubs under Bars & Clubs, and all that sort of thing - or you can just choose a listing of the ‘Top’ entries in each field.
deviantART, the popular art sharing and showcase site, has brought out an iPhone optimized site - and not surprisingly, it looks awful good. If you’re a fan of deviantART - or even just discovering it now - you can now check out all the latest creations in comfort and style on the iPhone as well.
It’s easy to browse through by newest or most popular pieces - and once you are looking at an individual item, there are handy tabs for viewing the image on its own, all the details on it, and comments for it. There’s also a Menu button at the top of the screen which lets you drill down through top-level categories and a very detailed list of sub-categories (Digital Art for example gets you sub-categories like Mixed Media, Photomanipulation, Paintings & Airbrushing etc.) so that you can look at very specific areas of interest.
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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