iPhone Dispatch Blog

iPhone Ringtones

rosenz — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:18:16 +0000

We’ve just put up a whole new section of free iPhone ringtones at MacMost.com. The idea is to have a bunch of ringtones for people that want something different, but don’t have the time or know-how to make their own with GarageBand.
We’ve organized them into themes. You can easily get the ringtones on your iPhone by just “subscribing” to the podcast feed. This will download the ringtones to iTunes, and then it should automatically sync them over to your iPhone if you have sync turned on. Then you can use them as ringtones in your iPhone settings. You can also download them manually, and listen to previews.

Thoughts on 1.1.3

rosenz — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:24:29 +0000

So I downloaded the 1.1.3 software update right away. It isn’t as big of a deal as I had hoped. The map location feature is nice. The rest all has to do with customizing the home screen. That’s not really new functionality, it just makes existing functionality easier to get it. And I suppose it also paves the way for 3rd party applications next month.
I did go ahead and add png icons for all my iPhone games and the MacMost iPhone home page.

Amazon.com iPhone Interface

rosenz — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:28:08 +0000

Looks like Amazon is testing a new iPhone interface. I was surprised by it when I went to check a price yesterday while out in a store. Just check out their web site while using an iPhone to see. Looks like they are soliciting feedback. I just hope they retain the ability to use the regular site as well.

iPhone Cases Suck

rosenz — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:38:47 +0000

I did a video today on why I don’t like any of the iPhone cases. You can see it (but not on the iPhone, sorry), at MacMost.com. Although you can see it on your iPhone if you subscribe to the MacMost video podcast, come to think of it.
Anyway, the funny thing is that the one I settled on (Speck) in the video broke about 3 hours after I was done. Now I’m hearing good things about the Otterbox.

Google!

rosenz — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:50:35 +0000

Wow. Have you checked out Google lately? If you just go to their main page on the iPhone, it will automatically detect that you are on an iPhone and give you a special page. Very nice. Google is now the most useful iPhone site all of a sudden.
I wonder why Apple didn’t create a killer portal for the iPhone?

Gmail on IMAP? Or Mobile Web?

rosenz — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:08:21 +0000

A lot of fuss is being made over IMAP support in Gmail. IMAP is a big improvement over POP, because it basically remembers the state of messages between computers (and the iPhone). So you can read your email sometimes over the iPhone, sometimes over your computer, and never have to worry about which email you read or replied to over each — they are in sync all the time.
But I have to say that using Gmail with IMAP is still a drag. It doesn’t group emails in threads, and it is too easy to throw an email away, as opposed to the preferred Gmail action of archiving email.
On the other hand, one of the mobile versions of Gmail is fast and easy to use, and looks brilliant over the iPhone. If you disagree, it may be because you are using the very stripped-down mobile versions of Gmail that is meant for lesser phones. I’m not exactly sure how you insure you are viewing the iPhone version of Gmail — the same URL will take you to a lesser version in your Mac browser. I assume they are now sniffing your device type and showing you the good one. You should see Archive, Delete and Search buttons (not links, buttons) at the bottom of the page.

Welcome UK and DE

rosenz — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:34:59 +0000

Thanks for the encouragement, Brian. I will post more.
So now we’ve got British and German iPhone brothers! The larger the audience, the more will go on with the iPhone. Soon France, Italy, Canada and maybe even China will join in.
I’m already seeing some .uk and .de traffic to my iPhone games site. I’ll try to take some time this holiday to find some new and interesting stuff for the iPhone to report.

Real 3rd-Party Apps Coming

rosenz — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:00:24 +0000

Steve Jobs announced today that there will, indeed, be 3rd-party apps sanctioned by Apple. An SDK for developers is planned for February. I think the developer community is going to be strong for the iPhone. Micro-killer apps will be created (apps that are killer apps for small groups of people with different needs) and it will spur on lots of sales. Apple may indeed come to dominate the mobile phone market in the end.

Apple iPhone App Directory

rosenz — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:26:28 +0000

Apple just launched a huge directory of iPhone Web applications at http://www.apple.com/webapps/. I guess this makes all the other iPhone app directories obsolete. I’m glad to see that almost all of my iPhone Games are listed. I’ll have to dig in deeper to see what other apps Apple has unearthed.

Sync Google Calendar to Your iPhone

rosenz — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:28:20 +0000

“J” asked how you would sync your Google calendar to your iPhone. Well, one way would be to simply use Google Calendar directly with their iPhone interface. But, if you want your Google calendar events to show up in the native iPhone calendar app, then you simply need to subscribe to your Google calendar via your Mac’s iCal application. Do this by going into Google Calendar, managing your calendars, sharing them publicly, and then grabbing the iCal link in the Calendar Details page. Paste that into iCal. Then your iCal application will read from Google calendar, and your iPhone syncs with that.
Unfortunately, there is no way to reverse the process, so new items added via your iPhone will never make it to Google Calendar. And, don’t even ask me how to do this in Windows. No idea.