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Enter to win Trip Journal 4.0 for the iPhone

March 8th, 2010 at 08:30pm Under Hot Apple News+ Iphone

Filed under: Software, Developer, iPhone

iQapps has updated their app Trip Journal to version 4.0, and the new update adds a fair bit of functionality to the already pretty impressive set of trip recording and tagging features. As with previous versions, you can track pictures, notes, and maps of your trips, and communicate via a number of social networks and features with friends and family. The newest version allows for either manual or automatic waypointing as you travel around the world, multiple trip management, and hooks into social networks like Google Earth, Picasa, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, straight from the iPhone 3GS’ GPS and video camera.

The app is on sale for 99 cents right now, but it’ll be back to the standard $2.99 price soon. We’ve got an even better deal, however — iQapps has offered five download codes for us to give five lucky commenters on this post. Just leave a comment telling us where you’d like to travel to, and we’ll choose five random winners after 48 hours to win the app for free. Here are the rules:

• Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older.
• To enter leave a comment telling us where you’d like to travel with Trip Journal
• The comment must be left before March 11th, 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time.
• You may enter only once.
• Five winners will be selected in a random drawing.
• Prizes: Promo Code for one copy of Trip Journal (Value: US$2.99)
• Click Here for complete Official Rules.

Good luck to everyone who enters!

TUAWEnter to win Trip Journal 4.0 for the iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TiPb Give Away: Motorola H17 Bluetooth Headset for a TiPb Facebook fan!

February 26th, 2010 at 08:14pm Under Hot Apple News+ Iphone

We’re moving TiPb’s Facebook presence from the old group and page to a newer, shiner, and — soon to be — better, unified TiPb Fan Page!

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Steve Jobs featured in Icons art exhibit, wins award at MWC

February 18th, 2010 at 02:45am Under Hot Apple News

Filed under: Steve Jobs

His Steveness was honored twice recently. First, he showed up in a piece of art featured in a New York exhibit. “Icons” is a set of portraits that shows off Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, and of course our own iCEO. The art itself isn’t that original (a takeoff on the old Warhol pieces), but the idea, I guess, is to enshrine the modern icons of the Internet in the same way we did back in the 60s with movie stars and musicians.

Jobs also won an actual award at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. He wasn’t actually at the conference (don’t you know Apple only does their own thing these days?), but he was still dubbed “Mobile Personality of the Year.” Show host Stephen Fry didn’t have anyone from Apple handy to give the award to, but he’d promise to get it to the right place. Two more achievements for Jobsy to place on his already crowded mantle.

TUAWSteve Jobs featured in Icons art exhibit, wins award at MWC originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How to: Facebook chat in iChat or Adium

February 16th, 2010 at 10:00pm Under Hot Apple News

Filed under: How-tos

Last week, the fine Facebook folk let us know (via the Facebook Help Center) that you can now sign in to Facebook’s chat service using iChat. Of course, the free Adium client has directly supported Facebook chat since version 1.3 (released in 2008), but this step opens up a much wider range of clients for the service.

Facebook’s chat service is powered by the Jabber/XMPP open source chat protocol. Many networks (such as Google Chat) rely on Jabber, and for this reason chat clients like iChat and Adium allow for the setup of a generic Jabber account to facilitate the widespread use of Jabber.

The process is simple. First, create a new generic Jabber account pointed at Facebook’s Jabber server. The username to use is your Facebook username (which you can find on the Account Settings page) and the password is the same as your Facebook login password. Next, point the server to “chat.facebook.com,” configure the port to 5222 and un-check the box for “Use SSL.”

After it’s all said and done, you should be able to communicate with your Facebook friends using iChat without being logged in to Facebook with a browser.

[via Cult of Mac & 9to5Mac]

TUAWHow to: Facebook chat in iChat or Adium originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Closed vs. Open, Control vs. Chaos — What’s Best for Apple, the iPhone and iPad?

February 13th, 2010 at 08:52pm Under Hot Apple News+ Iphone

Yesterday at Macworld two events helped clarify something I’ve been discussing with Dieter for a while now — Apple, the iPhone and iPad, and closed vs. open systems, control vs. chaos. These two events were a presentation by John Gruber of Daring Fireball concerning the 10 biggest problems faced by Apple, and a brief conversation [...]

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Navigon adds some unique features to GPS app

February 9th, 2010 at 01:30pm Under Hot Apple News+ Iphone

Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch

Navigon has been very aggressive about keeping its highly rated MobileNavigator app [iTunes link] up to date. Now, new features are putting it even further ahead of a lot of the competition.

The update adds three innovative features: in-app connection to Facebook and Twitter, Panorama View 3D with 3D terrain views powered from NASA data, and personalized route delivery via NAVIGON MyRoutes, an intelligent direction provider.

For Facebook and Twitter connectivity, a simple icon tap posts the user’s current position, destination, and ETA without navigation interruption — handy for advising family of your expected arrival or updating other travelers with your location if you stopped for a break.

The MyRoutes feature analyzes driving habits, patterns, location, time/day and provides up to three routes clearly displayed in-map with ETA, distance and driving times for each.

The 3D views enable intuitive orientation of the surrounding environment, and show you what lies ahead with digital landscape elevations, shadows, and geographic images. Panorama View 3D is integrated in-map, independent from the phone’s data connection. The Panorama View 3D feature will be available via an in-app purchase.

There is a special Macworld promotion of the current version of MobileNavigator for US$69.99 and one time in-app purchase of Traffic Live for $19.99 (regularly $24.99) from February 5-15. All the new features except Panorama View are free updates for existing owners of the app. The Panorama View feature will be $9.99. All the new announced features are expected to be available this spring.

Besides being available for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, the NAVIGON app also runs on the first-generation iPhone or an iPod touch. Additional accessories are required for GPS navigation on these devices.

TUAWNavigon adds some unique features to GPS app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Former Facebook for iPhone Developer Joe Hewitt Says iPad “Everything He’s Been Wishing For”

January 29th, 2010 at 05:31am Under Hot Apple News+ Iphone

Joe Hewitt, who developed the awesome Facebook 3.0, but controversially (and some would say detrimentally) left the iPhone platform before Facebook 3.1 over the App Store review process, has come out extremely positively about the iPad:

iPad is exactly the product I’ve been wishing for ever since I wrapped my mind around the iPhone [...]

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Make your personal iPhone app in just 10 minutes

January 21st, 2010 at 06:45pm Under Hot Apple News

Filed under: Software, Blogging, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

Have you ever secretly wished that you could have your own personal iPhone app? An app that you could give to friends, relatives, and your adoring fans?

Now you can have your own iPhone (or Android, if you swing that way) app featuring all of your personal feeds from sources such as Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Posterous, Tumblr, and more. The really cool thing is that it’s not going to take you much time, nor will you need to learn how to program. Through a new service called iSites, you can take all of your life feeds and have an iPhone app created just for you. The cost? Only US$25.

If you think that your hordes of faithful followers are going to download and use the app, you can spend another $99 to integrate AdMob ads into your personal app, meaning that you might be able to become rich (you’re already famous, right?) beyond your wildest dreams by giving away your app in the App Store.

Everything about the iSites app you create is customizable; the feeds that make up the content (see photo above), the colors, even your icon and store banner. Anyone using your app can easily share an article with others via Twitter, Facebook, or email, and the app has support for video, image thumbnails, and the ability to mark a post as a favorite.

I’m not sure that I’m ready to bore the world with my personal iPhone app, but when I finally get to that point, I’ll probably use iSites to create it.

[via Mashable]

TUAWMake your personal iPhone app in just 10 minutes originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Facebook 3.1.2 for iPhone Brings More Bug Fixes

January 14th, 2010 at 09:50pm Under Hot Apple News+ Iphone

Batten down your contacts and defend your profile pics, because Facebook 3.1.2 for iPhone and iPod touch is here and it purports to fix those bugs that have been ailing ya:

Fixes some crashes
Fix a bug causing incorrect matches in address book sync
Fix a bug causing incorrect matches for contacts with the same name

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Facebook 3.1 Contact Syncing — Got Bikini Pics?

January 14th, 2010 at 09:13pm Under Hot Apple News+ Iphone

As if Facebook 3.1 for iPhone and iPod touch didn’t have enough problems, dmackdaddy let us know this potentially embarrassing problem he’s experiencing with the new contact picture syncing functionality:

Beware of your profile pics, or your boss might get one of you doing something you don’t want them to see! What happens is, [...]

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