The Educated Kiwi
Posts tagged iphone
Byline-an iPhone app to get started reading blogs again
Jun 10th
A few days ago I downloaded and installed Byline which now has a free ad supported option. I don’t know why but it just seems nicer than google reader and has got me started reading through my education blogs again and finding out some new ideas which has to be a good thing. This from the website
Simply use your free Google Reader account to subscribe to websites you’d like to keep track of. Byline will automatically bring you new content, putting thousands of RSS and Atom feeds at your fingertips.
Reading your feeds has never been so fast and frictionless. When you’re ready for the next article there’s no need to scroll down or stab at tiny buttons — just swipe to move between pages in one fluid motion.
Browse offline
Even when you have no internet connection, Byline gives you instant access to complete web pages. Perfect for flights, subway journeys, and (if you’re an iPod Touch owner) those long dry spells between Wi-Fi zones.
Byline automatically analyses your feeds so that it can cache the ones with truncated content. This means all your news is there in full when you’re offline, and blazing fast to load when you’re online to boot. It’ll also cache your notes, so you can save any website you visit for offline browsing.
iPhone apps my Daughter loves
Jun 20th
Recently Rylee has taken to playing a memory game on abcya.com, she does however find the multiple button mouse difficult so we were thinking about how cool a touch screen would be. I then remembered a review of some of the toddler games for the iPhone OS and to be fair I was amazed with the variety of different games available on the platform.
The touch interface is fantastic for her and I was amazed how quickly she started arranging the words and letters in the correct order. The following video is the two apps that I have brought first.
I did read some interesting comments on the review page of people saying how toddlers using an iPhone was the downfall of society but I think these people need a reality check. Rylee can play the games for about ten minutes and then we do something else. There is no need to hide her from technology when her whole life will be surrounded by it. I mean just imagine if I took the iPhone off Mrs van Dijk after only ten minutes, now thats addiction.
iPhone Heaven
Apr 6th
I am the last one on the team to get the iPhone and I am very pleased with it. I have been using the iPod touch for a few months but feel like I have been missing out on 3G data and GPS goodness. Of course my Nokia N95 did both of those things but the GPS would take up to 10 minutes to get a lock and using a browser is useless with the numeric keypad on the N95. As for camera – although the N95 has a 5 MP camera taking a picture was never instant and I get 10 times better from my pocket size Canon Ixus. In short after 12 months with the N95 (which has now developed a number of faults) I am relieved to be on the iPhone.
Locly for iphone
Dec 2nd
Of the iPhone apps I have tried the one that has me most impressed with the possibilities is locly. This app uses the built in gps or cellphone towers to work out where you are and then tells you what is close, as well as flickr images and nearby tweets. You can then click on the small map which takes you to google maps and the gps will direct you to the location of the restaurant, ATM etc. I have been particularly impressed by the data available for new Zealand but I guess that’s what comes from many businesses having their details online already.
Mobilising TEK
Nov 23rd
Since I went crazy and brought an iPhone last week I though it was time to Mobilise TEK for Opera Mini, Windows mobile and safari mobile, This was a crazy easy task which consisted of downloading mobilepress. Unzipping then uploading the folder to the plugins folder and ticking a couple of boxes and bingo mobile TEK. It has been amazing how much I have used mobile Safari and now see what Mark was talking about with the iPod touch. It is great to have a mobile device that is easily useable rather than the clunky interface with my Nokia N73, which was actually a more expensive phone.
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