Rotating Maps For iPhone By Schmap

Schmap, offers iPhone consumers new rotating city guides, local search and maps. These new map-services on the web allow you to feel a uniquely interactive experience: maps and guide content are dynamically integrated, allowing intuitive, real-time access to reviews and photo slideshows for places of interest.

Directing your iPhone Safari browser to www.schmap.com takes you to your Schmap homepage, where you can choose to browse through "City Guides" broken down by categories (restaurants, shopping, etc.) or search for local businesses in your area.

Schmaps gives you a unique opportunity to browse through their "City Guides." With the iPhone in portrait orientation, Schmaps presents a list of local businesses. But, turn the iPhone into the landscape (horizontal) orientation and Schmap will rotate the screen and list the businesses next to a map showing the location of each business.

Schmap's local search function is currently unavailable as the service is still in beta development. To see how it works, visit the site with your iPhone and enter access code 724627.

Schmap is a leading publisher of digital travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The innovative technology behind Schmap Guides also lets end users publish their own ‘schmaps’ (to share trip itineraries, local reviews and more), and powers a popular range of Schmap Widgets, displaying maps with content and event schedules for travel, sports, concert tours and more on a fast-growing network of websites and blogs. Founded in 2004, Schmap is privately owned and based in Carrboro, North Carolina.

References:

http://www.schmap.com/iphone/

iPhone Waters Your Plants

We know that iPhone is a fascinating gadget with its innovative and various functions. But its new gardening opportunity is really amazing. Now people have a chance to use the iPhone to water their plants. As someone created a robotic system that when controlled by your iPhone’s Safari web browser waters your plants!

Sure you would be astonished, but here is how it works: It is possible by checking Mobile Safari Position. Whenever Mobile Safari changes position from horizontal to vertical, a web server notices the changes and via a JavaScript, and some electrical engineering, changes the position of the can and moves it up and down.

P.S. Who knows what would be another surprise from iPhone?

References:

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/05/iphone_waters_plants.html

New iPhone Video Recorder By DreamCatcher

New Video Recording application known as iPhone Video Recorder was launched by DreamCatcher. iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video to the compressed mpeg4 format, so the recording is space saving, an-hour-high-quality recording will be a file as small as 60MB.

VideoRecorder allows consumers to save video with audio, and is offered in 2 versions. The first trial that lets you record up to 30 seconds to 15fps and obviously the second Full which has no time limit for registration. The cost of obtaining the full license is $ 19.95.

iPhone Video Recorder offers new recording method a scheme known as “postponed encoding,” in which video and audio are recorded and stored in your iPhone’s memory in raw format, and then encoded to the iPhone’s standard MP4 format at a time when it is convenient for you. This deferred method allows for the higher frame rates. One nice feature is that since the encoding itself is naturally slow, as you would expect from 412MHz worth of horsepower, they’ve added the ability to stop the encoding at any time and resume it later on.

Here are some different features of Video Recorder:

· Record both audio and video;

· Record to compressed mpeg4 format;

· Intelligent dynamic volume adjustment algorithm;

· Up to 15 fps with high-quality video;

· Playback, send out by email.

How to install? Firstly, Open the Installer, add source: http://www.iphone-recorder.com/install2 , browse to the Multimedia category and Install iPhone Video Recorder.

References:

http://mydepository.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/iphone-video-recorder/

Iphone users Get involved in Training and Diet Planner

Iphone users now can allow themselves to get involved in a special training and diet planner that is available via safari browser. If you’re one of them who need to manage personal menu, keep the diet or a dairy of everyday food activities you should simply login to your account on your iPhone and view your gym training for the day, diet and manage your weight goals all from the iPhone interface. It is easy to use, and free to create an account.

FitReach provides you with a way to measure and manage your fitness and diet program. Whether you want to achieve the body you have always dreamed of or improve your overall health FitReach can help keep you on track and motivated.

Other great features include the ability to see what diets and training programmes are working for other members, if something isn't working for you - see what is working for other people and amend your training or diet.

So if this program is appropriate you may act and check it out on http://mobile.fitreach.com/

Reference:

http://mobile.fitreach.com/

GetQuick Offers iPhone Customers Mobile Restaurant Orders

GetQuik makes it easy for Apple iPhone users to place restaurant food orders On-The-Go GetQuik for iPhone provides superior order processing and friction-free transactions for mobile customers.

GetQuik, a provider of restaurant order automation technology and services unveiled GetQuik for iPhone, a mobile ordering web application for Apple iPhone users that allows customers to skip long restaurant lines by ordering their favorite food from their iPhone.

Registered GetQuik users can access the iPhone application at http://iphone.getquik.com after logging into the iPhone web application a customer can view, select and order their preset menu favorites or meals. GetQuik allows customers to place orders from the web or on-the-go with an easy user interface that requires no program to download or install.

“We think the iPhone is an ideal mobile food ordering platform. Customers benefit from the speed and convenience of mobile ordering while restaurants benefit from shorter queues, decreased money handling expenses, and increased order volume and profitability. Our approach for our iPhone release is to have customers preset data entry intensive information such as credit card information, as well as add food customizations online at our web-site. We designed the iPhone web application with the goal of minimizing clicks and key-strokes to provide a fast and convenient ordering experience," - said Ken Ryu, GetQuik founder and CEO.

The GetQuik for iPhone service, which launched today as a public beta, operates on the iPhone’s Safari browser. After Apple releases its iPhone SDK to developers, GetQuik plans to update GetQuik for iPhone to operate as a native application. GetQuik also plans to provide customers the ability to search, view and order from a restaurant’s complete menu directly from their iPhone.

GetQuik for iPhone currently offers ordering from 150 Northern California restaurants in its network including San Francisco Bay Area regional chains such as Pizza My Heart, High Tech Burrito, Erik's DeliCafe and Una Mas. GetQuik plans to expand to other U.S. cities in 2008.

GetQuik first entered the mobile market in May 2007 with its J2ME and WAP applications for smart phones and mobile devices. With these applications, customers can register their restaurant favorites online and order on-the-go with a few clicks of their cell phone. GetQuik has seen rapid revenue growth within the last six months and is on track to surpass $1 million in transactions in 2008.

References:

http://www.getquik.com/RunTime/Common/Demo.aspx

http://www.prnewswire.com

BigOven Recipes On Your iPhone - The Guarantee Of Various Foods!

BigOven, a website specializing in recopies has unveiled iPhone adapted website. It provides with over 160,000 recipes from around the world. So iPhone consumers are guaranteed to have various delicious foods! Website is still in beta, but its search is very quick and you can find pretty much anything you have ever wanted.

"Now, if you’re at the grocery store, and don’t know what ingredients you need to make Quiche Lorraine, simply visit "BigOven.com slash M" on your mobile phone. You can also enter general search terms like "easy breakfast eggs" or ingredients from your fridge, and get some great suggestions," - said Steve Murch, CEO and Head Chef of BigOven.com.

But there is another recipe website for iPhone www.101cookbooks.com, which also offers iPhone consumer various food recipes.

"The day when I can actually browse this website from my cell phone is finally near. I'll be able to load ingredient lists while strolling the aisles of my favorite markets. I'll be able to tap the 101 Cookbooks recipe archives for inspiration from my car (parked, of course) on the fly. All the recipes you've seen over the years on 101 Cookbooks are now formatted to be searched, browsed and viewed on the iPhone," - says Wayne, 101 Cookbooks consumer.

So never mind, iPhone consumers seems to get great cooks in the future.

Google Reveals High iPhone Web Use

Google has revealed it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset.

The figures were so high that the search company initially thought they had made an error compiling the data.

"We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again", - Vic Gundotra, head of Google's mobile operations told the Financial Times during this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

American iPhone operator AT&T recently said that the average revenue from iPhone users is double that of average users because the of top-up data packages, while in the UK O2 has said the iPhone is generating "unheard of data traffic".

The iPhone offers "full-fat" internet with Apple's Safari browser, rather than web designed especially for a mobile phone format.

Safari 3.1 Will Have Great Features For The iPhone

The new Apple’s Safari 3.1 browser is going to include some neat features for consumers. The main one is that Safari will be able to render non-standard fonts, which will allow rendering of more dynamic and customizable pages for the iPhone. Also with transform feature one can scale, rotate, skew and translate HTML boxes in real time, where developers allow for such actions.

Animations offer Ajax-like effects like fading out an HTML element without the need for it. Safari 3.1 will also support HTML5’s SQL API. HTML5 will also permit for video and audio tags. This will support embedding video and audio content and playback controls in web pages.

The other features expected in Safari 3.1 are enhanced web page debugging tools, a database browser tool that’s been built into the Web Inspector for use alongside the new SQL storage API, and a native version of the getElementsByClassName JavaScript function. The latter has been drastically sped up.

The browser is in beta stages now, but it will be available for both Mac and PC.

Springlets For iPhone

Does it take too much time to look for something on the internet using your regular way? Now there is a solution with a cool name: Springlets. It places 6 apps on your home screen which you can quickly launch and then perform search instead of launching web browser and looking through Google search results.

So if you use the following websites more frequently then it’s definitely for you. Websites are Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search, IMDb, Chowhound, and Wikipedia. Think of them as Google toolbar buttons if you use it on PC.

You can also speed dial by typing the name or phone of the person and it will dial automatically, without the need for long contact search and opening phone app. And other great feature is text search which loads text only on browser, and saves time it takes for picture to load. It is especially useful if you have to pay for bandwidth usage.

Just visit http://www.springlets.com/ with your iPhone and get the apps.

Old Code Problems in a New iPhone

Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators was the first person to crack Apple's much hyped iPhone. The vulnerability was found in an old, buggy part of the Safari browser, in the old Perl Regular Expression Library (PRCE) in Webkit. The regular Mac OS X Safari as well as the Windows beta version of the browser were also at risk.

I have been using the Windows beta since its release. While I had noticed a number of bugs, I could not assume the software had such a severe problem. So if you use the Safari browser - whether on a Mac, PC, or iPhone - be sure you update it with Apple's just-released patches.

This incident with iPhone once again makes me think that in computers there is no such a thing as absolute security. All systems are vulnerable and all systems have bugs. However, it is important that the developer quickly reacts to eliminate security problems (Apple was very quick indeed).

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