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 Google Reader team is still loving the iPhone (and many of them are using it, by the sounds of things), and tonight they’ve brought out a first beta of an iPhone specific version of it.
I’m a big user of Google Reader, on the desktop and on the iPhone - using it heavily every day. Using it on the iPhone was already a good experience, but this first iPhone specific beta has some quite nice improvements.
Muxtape - the web site that lets you create your own online mix tape type collection of songs - has now got an iPhone optimized site.
On the iPhone site you can do most things that you can on a desktop browser - organize your songs, check out muxtapes made by other folks, and listen to your own current selections - though you can’t upload a track on the iPhone of course.
My only gripe with Muxtape - and I feel sure I may just be missing something obvious here - is that it does not seem to let me play my whole current collection at once. I can only manage to choose one song at a time, and when it ends I have to reverse back out of the QuickTime player and select another - which sort of kills the whole ‘mix tape’ feeling for me.
Check out Muxtape on the iPhone at http://muxtape.com and let us know what you think and what I’m missing to make this play all the tracks consecutively …
Thanks a lot NBC - for providing yet another glorious way for me to fritter away masses of time entertaining myself via the iPhone, instead of doing 27 things I should be doing!
That’s right - NBC’s iPhone optimized site (not sure if it’s new or old) now offers full episodes of two excellent sitcoms, The Office and 30 Rock. Currently there are only a couple of episodes (the two most recent) available for each of the shows, but hopefully the number of past episodes and the number of different programs covered, will be expanded in future. In addition to the two sitcoms’ full episodes, there’s also a pretty decent selection of other NBC content to distract yourself with.
I recently wrote that the 3rd version of Hahlo, my new favorite iPhone Twitter client, was available in Beta. While it doesn’t have Twinkle’s the cool "Locate-Me" feature that Patrick has grown to love, Hahlo is a great choice for those of us who have not jailbroken our iPhones (or jailbroke them and relocked them in less than three hours).
At the time of my post Hahlo developer Dean Robinson said he expected to release the new version within a week or two.
It is an Evernote kinda week here at JAiB. On Monday I took a look at using Evernote to capture and access pictures of text. Over the next 24 hours Patrick gave away tons of Evernote invitations.
Yes, the iPhone is a great way to get information INTO Evernote. But as Warner Crocker over at GottabBeMobile points out, the iPhone is also a great way to ACCESS the information stored in Evernote.
Read on to see the two simple ways to use the iPhone to ACCESS everything you have stored in Evernote.
It’s getting harder and harder lately to keep up with all the wild and wonderful apps that help you keep up with things. Every day I wrestle a little with varying degrees of distraction from email, IM, Twitter, FriendFeed, and others - luckily I find myself hating Facebook more and more of late, so that has become a very minimal distratcion My most-used (by far) method of keeping up with the news each day is RSS readers - and I currently use too many of those as well, since Dan got me looking at NetNewsWire as well as Google Reader.
ReadBurner is another interesting entry in the RSS / news field. It’s a ‘mashup’ type app built on and reliant upon Google Reader. It’s a very simple but quite useful app that lets you keep track of ‘hot’ topics by seeing what is getting shared by Google Reader users the most. As you can see in the screencap at top left, ReadBurner presents a very basic layout of the most popular stories, up and coming ones, most recent, and so on. Each of the main sections gives you a short listing of articles per the section title, and you can tap once to view an individual article. They’re formatted perfectly for iPhone reading, but you can also hit the ‘Full HTML’ button to open a new page to the full article at its original source.
I like ReadBurner a lot so far, partly because it gives a quick feel for what stories are hot (although not sure this is the best measure of that of course) and also because it’s an easy way to get myself reading some things that cover much broader subjects than my regular RSS feeds do - since my regular feeds tend to focus in quite a bit on iPhone, mobile tech, and general tech news.
You can give ReadBurner Mobile a look at http://m.readburner.com - and let us know what you reckon …
In recent weeks Patrick has posted on a couple of excellent Twitter clients including Twinkle and MobileTwitter. Both look good but aren’t options for me since with June, and the advent of resident 3rd party applications just around the corner, I decided to refrain from jailbreaking my new 16GB iPhone.
Fortunately, there are some good web-based options out there such as ThinCloud and Twitter mobile. My favorite has been Hahlo and a good thing is about to get a whole lot better.
Hahlo 3 is in Beta and will be released in the next week or so. If you like Twitter it will DEFINITELY be worth a look.
Time Magazine now has a mobile site, and it looks as if its design was done with the iPhone very much in mind - or that in any case has worked out extremely well for iPhone viewing. It’s been years since I’ve read Time regularly, and I don’t keep up with general and world news nearly enough these days, so I was very keen to see what Time Mobile has to offer.
The short answer is that it’s got a lot to offer, and in a very nice looking package. Here are some of the highlights of the Time Mobile site:
It meets Rule Number 1 of iPhone site design - which is that it provides an easy link to the full site, for all those who hate mobile optimized sites, and I know there are lots of you. There is a nice big button top right of every page that will take you over to the regular Time.com site.
I’m not a big camera and photography enthusiast - but having looked around the new Cameratown iPhone site a bit today, I have a feeling this could be a very popular site for those who are. It provides readers with quick access to “what’s new” in photography from the latest news, product reviews, deals, and information on all the latest camera models.
The site is very well organized and laid out, and seems to have tons of good information as well. The main sections of the site are News, Reviews, Deals, Cameras, and Tutorials - each accessible via one tap on a button at the top of the home page.
The News section provides a short selection of recent news items on cameras, lenses and other accessories, and camera-related software. Each of the news items is formatted in on column and easy to read on the iPhone.
I have coded fairly extensively with Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry. iPhone just blows them away, making me wonder who decided that mobile development had to be difficult. — Tom Yager, InfoWorld
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My most-used (by far) method of keeping up with the news each day is RSS readers - and I currently use too many of those as well, since 
