Thanks to Readdle, you can now read your eBooks on your iPhone. This little application offers a full features reader for the iPhone. Not only can you read eBooks you have purchased, you can upload documents you create yourself via Readdle’s web site and read those on your iPhone as well. Readdle is a free service and comes with 50 MB of storage.
iPhone users are getting a treat this month from Internet access provider Boingo. The company is offering free WiFi during the month of August at the following terminals:
* AZO – Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport
* BNA – Nashville International Airport,
* BWI – Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport,
* DTW – Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport,
* EWR – Newark Liberty International Airport,
* JFK – John F. Kennedy International Airport,
* LGA – LaGuardia Airport,
* MDW – Midway International Airport,
* MSP – Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport,
* OKC – Will Rogers World Airport,
* ORD – O’Hare International Airport,
* STL – Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, and
* YYZ – Toronto Pearson International Airport.
To use the service:
Users interested in trying out the service are supposed to connect to the “Concourse†SSID with their iPhone at one of the identified airports; launch Safari on the iPhone and connect to the Boingo Web page; enter your e-mail address on the special promotional page and then click on the Go button.
Tags: boingo wireless, airport wifi, airport internet, wifi internet, iphone
More and more airlines are offering internet access in fights now that laptops, PDA and smart phones like the iPhone are becoming the norm. The latest to jump on the mile high wifi bandwagon is American Airlines.
Business and leisure passengers on American flights would be able to e-mail and surf the Web from laptops and handheld devices while in flight aboard 767-200 aircraft primarily on transcontinental routes, according to a statement from Itasca, Ill.-based AirCell.
Who else reported to be jumping on the mile high wifi phenomenon? Deutsche Lufthansa, Southwest Airlines and Qantas. Jet Blue led the mile high wifi charge a year and a half ago when it applied for and won it’s wifi license, and has been offering wifi on select flights already.
If you were wondering if the iPhone would work well with your PC, the answer is apparently… kind of.
According to TUAW. Cingular/AT&T, Vodaphone and T-Mobile, proving it really might be worth the wait.
This mod from Mod Your iPhone shows how to get the AT&T carrier text off of your screen.
The web site Hack The iPhone has published a two pronged hack for the iPhone that will give you the ability to add custom ring tones. You can find it here.
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Blendtec features the iPhone in an episode of their famous vlogvertisement series “Will It Blend“.
Well, I upgraded to iTunes 7.3 and can safely say no ring tones are evident as speculated earlier. What’s more, other sites are now saying that once the ring tone feature is active in later versions, you will a) only be able to make ring tones out of songs purchased from iTunes and b) will get charged an extra 99 cents a song on top of the original cost of the song to make a 30 second ring tone. If that is true, that’s a multi-level rip off that really pisses me off.
First of all, that first 99 cents a song should cover all fair use of the song. Including making a damn ring tone if we want to. Second, what about my other music services and my CDs? eMusic is a favorite of mine for songs, and I have hundreds of CDs. You mean to tell me that if this rumor pans out I can’t use any of that music to make ring tones for the iPhone, which will only be compatible with iTunes? What a crock. That would make me a really unhappy Apple customer.
It seems that so far Apple is missing a big boat with the iPhone not being able to use a full song from the iPod/iTunes library on it as a ring tone, not to mention the choice of AT&T as the carrier. If the grapevine speaks the truth they can chalk up another strike against them on this, which is too bad. I was hoping they’d be innovative and lead the way on songs as ring tones and other features.
Tags: iPhone, Ring Tone, RingTone, iPhone Ringtones, eMusic, AT&T, Cingular, ringtones, ringtunes
Thanks to Amy for the linky goodness:
According to MamaPop, all it took was five minutes playing with an iPhone to make a hardcore PC code monkey fall in love and buy one. Any Apple lovers out there just thought “well, no shit, sherlock”, but PC lovers may be confused. Without becoming one of those Apple users, let me just say that the reason Apple’s tag line is “It Just Works”… is because it’s true. And now I want an iPhone even more. Save faster, self!
So what in the world possessed him to cross over to the dark side and plunk down several hundred dollars on a phone we totally do not need?
Simple. Because he spent five damn minutes playing with one at work.
That was all it took to turn an eye-rolling skeptic into a panting, wide-eyed lunatic who HAD TO HAVE AN iPHONE.
One of my favorite selling points of the iPhone, according to MamaPop? Settling fights in bars. Now that is a reason to have an iPhone this AppleGrrl can really get behind!
The web browser is freaking mind-blowing. It took me forever before I could use it without my jaw dropping and my tongue rolling out. The last time I had a reaction like this to a piece of electronics was the first time I hit the pause button on my brand-new TiVo. Like, holy shit. It’s the goddamn Internet. On my phone. Tap and zoom and scroll and resize the page…all with your fingers, with no stripped-down text-only versions of the websites to struggle through. It’s easy and intuitive and looks gorgeous. The iPhone will let you surf IMDB and Wikipedia the way God intended and for their true purpose: to settle fights in bars.
Seriously, go read the blog at MamaPop about their amazing new iPhone. Heck, you should be reading MamaPop anyway – those chicks are on the cusp of pop culture – the cusp, I tell you.
So, much like me, you haven’t finished saving up to buy that iPhone yet. Never fear, AppleGrrl is here! This post will list all validated places you can win an iPhone right now, and it will get updated as time goes on to add more. There are plenty of scam artists out there trying to con you into exchanging personal information for an imaginary iPhone that will never surface. This means that we may list fewer contests, but they will all be from verified, bonafied companies and you will really win an iPhone if you qualify. Let the contests begin! Good luck, and if you win one from one of these contests, please let AppleGrrl know.
Profy: Your Source For All Things Web 2.0, is having a contest here.
Gizmodo: Home Of Gadget Geeks Extraordinaire, is having a contest here.
LoopRumors contest info is here.
AppleiPhoneShow contest is here.
iLounge contest is here.
Insanely Great Tees contest here.
If you are having a contest to win an iPhone, let us know in the comments!
Tags: Win iPhone, iPhone Contest, Free iPhone, iPhone Giveaway, iPhone Sweepstakes, iPhone
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People all over the AppleVerse are doing “live demos” of their new toys tools. As one company learned, you have to be careful how you approach your demonstration. A company called Mogulus wanted to show their new iPhone in action, so they posted their phone number. Live. In their chat room. This meant that thousands of people saw the number and called in to “help”, resulting in so much call volume the company wasn’t able to demo the phone, even in airplane mode. Now that’s good thinkin’!
Tags: Mogulus, iPhone, Live iPhone Demo
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So the great buzz this weekend is the iPhone. People waited in lines for hours to get their hands on one, in some cases after saving up for months to be able to afford it. Was it worth the hype? Take a look at some of the buzz around the internet and judge for yourself:
The First Dissection. Slashdot and ThinkSecret posted links to the first iPhone dissections. Click here and here to see it.
Activation: Issue or Non-Issue? That depends on who you are. It seems if you went through AT&T it is an issue (click here and here) and if you didn’t your iPhone is working just fine, thank you (click here).
How Do You Work This Thing? Apple has the answers, here. ZeFrank has the song to fit the occasion here.
How Do You Get This Thing? You can buy your iPhone from the Apple Store or from AT&T. Judging by the customer service at Apple compared to the customer service at AT&T, I’d go with Apple, in spite of the backorder issue of 2 weeks discussed here. Here’s a link to buy yours online from Apple (click here). (And hey, if you buy yours from that link it gives me some pennies, which helps me get my own iPhone, since I’m not done saving for it yet. No pressure or anything, though.)
Touch Typing: The New Dimension. Apple’s iPhone uses the much touted touch typing, right on the screen. What happens if you are sausage fingered, or just a bad speller? Read about real world touch typing experiences here.
Hacking The iPhone. As with anything apple produces, there are always hackers waiting to see if they can break it or find bugs. I’m sure it will only be a matter of days before the first hack reports are in. Meanwhile, read this piece on hacking the iPhone here.
Tags: Apple, iPhone, Apple iPhone, AT&T, Cingular, MacWorld, Apple Store
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The iPhone will hit shelves at 6 PM Friday, June 29th. If you are in my timezone, that’s today, betches!
I’ll put alink to buy it here as soon as one is available. Meanwhile, fellow nerds, talk nerdy to me…
AT&T finally knuckles under and lists specs for the iPhone and plans here.
This rumor gets a resounding “Hallelujah!” from me. Up until now I have happily been using a program called Xingtone to create my ring tones for my phone, but to have ring tone support right in iTunes would be wonderful.
As it is, as good as Xingtone is as a program, it only works with one phone number, and you have to jump through a few hoops with songs you buy in iTunes to get them to work. Songs bought on other sites, like eMusic, work fine, though.
I hope that iTunes Ringtone creator includes some of the features offered by Xingtone: equalizer, custom cut, fades, sequencing and other effects. You can even record a voice over the music usung Xingtone. If iTunes can do half as much, it will still be good, but if it can do it all that would be even better.
Tags: xingtone, itunes 7.3, itunes with ringtones, ringtones, custom ringtones, emusic
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