More iPhone Apps
Here’s some more iPhone goodness, and a teaser to whet your appetite.
Fake Calls
Thanks to Floyd for this tip. I started out to review three fake call apps, but quickly realized there are a lot more than three. Eleven apps matched the keyword search “fake caller” in the App Store, and only one didn’t fit the [...]
Two More iPhone Apps
Another pair of iPhone apps came to my attention today, making it four for the week, and it just so happens one is brought to you by Oracle.
Oracle Business Approvals for Managers
Steven Chan put me on to this one, which looks like an iPhone app that surfaces a lot of the worklist notifications EBS users [...]
Two New (to Me) iPhone Apps
This blog continues to draw iPhone traffic, so here comes an iPhone post to keep you interested.
I installed two new iPhone apps today.
I Can Has Cheezburger
As I probably mentioned in the past, I tend to install apps, test them for a while, then remove them. Very few stick with me for very long.
Today, I found [...]
Low Tech Wins
So, I’m speaking at the Communities Exchange conference in San Jose today, filling in for Paul. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind since he announced last week that he couldn’t make it. Hence the lack of content here. Anyway, looks to be an interesting conference, only 45 attendees, small on purpose. I hope to [...]
20% of My iPhone Apps Are Worthless
Our guest blogger, Matt Topper, is a friend of the Lab, an ex-Oracle Ace, turned Oracle employee who always has something to say. He’s currently running the identity management team for Oracle’s National Security group, playing with Collok in his free time to fix the conference experience.
The other day Eddie tweeted that he was [...]
Air Sharing Gives You iPhone File Sharing Goodness
The theme for today is file sharing apps that just work.
While browsing The Silicon Florist in my feeds today, I saw a post from Rick about Air Sharing, an iPhone app built by Avatron Software a company based in Vancouver (WA not BC).
As of yesterday, Air Sharing had 700,000 odd downloads in about a week, [...]
Back to Work
So, I’ve returned from my staycation officially, and thanks to scheduled posts, it was almost like I never left. Everyone wins.
I’ve made it through several hundred emails; incidentally, would you take a job that had in its description of responsibilities:
To send and receive thousands of emails each month.
Just wondering, since we all seem to have [...]
Copy and Paste for the iPhone? Sort of . . .
This feed item on Techmeme got me all excited earlier in the week.
Copy and Paste for iPhone
Digging more deeply, it turns out not to be copy and paste, but rather an open source solution called OpenClip that iPhone app developers can use to accomplish copy and paste.
Because Apple forbids third party apps from running in [...]
More iPhone Nuggets
I’m embracing this blog’s role as a source of iPhone things.
So, I figured I’d share some tips and tricks, a.k.a. stuff that might be in the manual you and I didn’t read.
If you have an iPhone, bookmark this post immediately. Rather than regurgitate them as my own, I’ll run the headline versions:
Tap to scroll to [...]
I Am (Not) Rich
First off, everyone knows I’m not Rich.
I wonder if Rich (and people who share his name) get this app for free or at least for a discount.
I’ll back up; so by now, you’ve probably heard about the “I Am Rich” iPhone app that popped up briefly a couple days ago in the App Store. The [...]
Oracle iPhone Resources
The SEO of blogs is so good.
The post I did a year ago about the wiki I started inside the firewall to collect iPhone tips and tricks still comes up in the top few results for the keywords “oracle iphone“.
That post is in the top five all time for us, based on traffic metrics.
It also [...]
Good and Bad iPhone News
A few items from last week caught my iPhone-centric eye. I figured you were all jonesing for iPhone stuff, so here they come.
Push Notification
I think by now, everyone with an iPhone running 2.0 firmware and a few apps understands why apps should run in the background. Seriously, how useful is AIM if you have to [...]
More iPwnage
Disclaimer: Honestly, I love my iPhone. It still rules, and I wouldn’t own another smartphone. However, the cynical misanthrope in me loves to deconstruct the hype that surrounds the “God phone”.
On today’s agenda, two items: 1) the “Best phone for business. Ever.” claim and 2) more 3G nonsense.
For Business? Not yet. Maybe, Updates Follow
Beyond the [...]
Some Thoughts on iPhone Apps
Maybe you missed it, but Apple released a bunch of new iPhone stuff last week. Who knew?
The 7.7 release of iTunes added the App Store, and the 2.0 firmware now allows me to run the first apps on my iPhone, w00t!
Reviews have begun to arrive, and apparently, the most popular price point has risen from [...]
New Home for Oracle iPhone Stuff
About a year ago, I bought my wife an iPhone and then soon broke down and bought myself one. Since then, I’ve blogged several times about the little gadget, including a few posts on how it works for me as a work tool.
A large percentage of the traffic on this blog is due to iPhone [...]
Halp! I Can’t Figure out the iPhone Contract.
Update: This post could easily have been all about the failday (or iPocalypse as Gizmodo is calling it) Apple and AT&T had. Not since Firefox 3 download day have we seen a fail of these proportions.
No one was exempt: those waiting in line, those updating a 2G iPhone, those trying to activate iPhones for hours. [...]
IPhone 2.0 Lands
Earlier today, Gizmodo leaked the iPhone 2.0 firmware. This update, in conjunction with the iTunes 7.7 release that revealed the long anticipated App Store have allowed me to install apps on my lowly, outmoded iPhone 2G.
I’m now reveling in the geeky pleasure of controlling my iTunes library from my iPhone, using the free Remote app. [...]
The Future is iPhone-tastic
Lately, I’ve been bummed that the SDK announcement underwhelmed, handcuffing would-be developers with restrictions that make apps significantly less functional than expected. As a user, I want more apps that do more.
And then a couple nights ago, I got a reminder of how sweet the iPhone really is.
I was at Nicholas Restaurant, a great place [...]
The iPhone Still Rules
I’m sure many of you out there got iPhones over the Holidays, just like David did. Rich finally joined the iranks, but he went the iPod touch route, an interesting choice, all the cool features, minus the uncool AT&T and the molasses-in- January slow Edge network.
This blog has become an iPhone resource for Oracle people. [...]
Eight Cell Phones in Ten Years Part 2
Yesterday, I started a nostalgic trip down cell phone lane, recounting my first four cell phones. I think that took me from 1997 to 2003. By that time the Zoolander Nokia had a cracked screen, and phones were starting to get really cool.
The Off Brand Freebie Phone
The carrier I had at the time offered [...]
