A photo frame for your pocket and desk
Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review
DreamStream [App Store] is a new piece of software for the iPhone and iPod touch that gives you a personalized wireless portable picture frame. It can access photos you have on your phone, or with internet connectivity provide you with links to MobileMe galleries, Facebook, Flickr tags and RSS image feeds. I tried attaching to my MobileMe account and Flickr images and it worked just fine.
You also get widgets that display the time, weather in cities you select and the date. Happily, the app runs in either portrait or landscape mode.
I thought the documentation was a bit thin, and adding images from your camera roll on the iPhone is a bit time consuming as there is no way to select multiple photos — you have to add them one at a time.
I’d love to see a method to add scrolling news feeds from selected sources, and perhaps an option to add music from your on-board collection. Remember that iPod touch users will only have Wi-Fi as an option for connectivity.
As it is, DreamStream is a nice, well performing app, and certainly worth the $1.99US asking price. I like the ability to see the photo streams from friends around the country, and now when my iPhone is idling and charging on my desk it has something to do.
Here are some screen shots of Dreamstream in action:
Gallery: DreamStream screen shots
A photo frame for your pocket and desk originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 21 May 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
A photo frame for your pocket and desk originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 21 May 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Engadget Podcast 144 - 05.01.2009
Bogged down and confused with the latest spate of wild mobile speculations? Relationship troubles clouding your judgment? Lonely? Well Josh, Nilay and Paul — your jovial (yet often enraged) Engadget Podcast crew — are back for another installment to help you sort all that out. In a week heavy on rumors (Palm Eos, Microsoft “Pink” and the not-so-nano “iPhone lite”) and laden with opinion (Windows 7 RC1, TiVo’s sad state of affairs), join the boys as they delve deep into the abyss that is gadgetry. Sure, there might never be a Zunephone, but remember: the beauty is in the journey… or something.
Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: All That She Wants
00:01:13 - Palm Eos: super-thin, 3G, and headed to AT&T?
00:27:20 - Microsoft’s “Pink” smartphone could rival iPhone on Verizon
00:29:00 - Microsoft reiterates what we knew: no first-party handset, no Zunephone
00:36:40 - Apple prototyping “iPhone lite” and MacBook Mini / media pad for Verizon?
00:46:30 - Samsung I7500 with OLED touchscreen powered by Android, dreams
00:57:42 - Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 impressions, insights, and expectations
01:10:05 - Ten years of TiVo: how far we haven’t come
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Engadget Podcast 144 - 05.01.2009 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 May 2009 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Quantum PI’s nanoTrek sensors pick up vibration and motion your Wiimote could never dream of
Quantum PI has just built the first motion sensor chip to use “quantum tunneling,” which sounds theoretically unsafe, but we’ll follow along. The nanoTrek sensors are classified as NEMS (Nano Electric Mechanical Systems) as opposed to the “bulky” MEMS sensors that can be found everywhere from the Wii to the iPhone. nanoTrek’s sensing area is a mere 50 x 50 microns, and its sensitivity is 5 to 10 times greater than MEMS chips. There are all sorts of boring industrial applications to such a sensor, but we’re looking forward to the not-too-distant-future when we can be completely disappointed by a brand new version of Super Monkey Ball.
[Via The Inquirer]
Filed under: Cellphones, Misc. Gadgets, Gaming
Quantum PI’s nanoTrek sensors pick up vibration and motion your Wiimote could never dream of originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 May 2009 09:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Video iPhone to feature iMovie App?
Apple rumors seem especially rampant in this year’s run-up to the Worldwide Developers Conference. With all the fuss focused upon a rumored 10-inch device that fits somewhere in between Apple’s MacBooks and iPod touch, these poor ol’ iPhone rumors just can’t get any attention. Riiight. The latest has BusinessWeek offering further testimonial that video recording will be heavily featured in the summer release of the 3.0 firmware and presumed third generation iPhone. According to a source familiar with Apple’s plans, the next iPhone will make shooting video super simple and feature an iMovie App that enables on-phone editing and uploads direct to YouTube. If true it would certainly be a welcomed update for first and second gen iPhone users and something we’d expect Apple to tout loudly as a major new feature on a new device or two sporting beefier cameras.
[Via MacRumors]
Filed under: Cellphones
Video iPhone to feature iMovie App? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 May 2009 03:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple mulling price cuts, developing netbook competitor?
Sure, Apple just posted a record quarter of earnings, but it’s been taking a beating lately on the price issue — not only have cheap netbooks become the hottest category in the market, Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters commercials have reignited the Apple tax debate. That appears to have the wheels in motion in Cupertino: AppleInsider says the MacBook and iMac lines are soon to be bolstered with lower-cost options that should take some of the bite out of Redmond’s marketing. That’s certainly interesting, but here’s the real noise: according to AI, the low-cost machines are just an interim solution while Apple preps a new tablet line to take on netbooks directly without making any of the design sacrifices Steve Jobs has repeatedly pooh-poohed. Wild — but it jibes with those recent whispers about a Verizon / Apple meetup and those reports that Quanta’s busy building something with a 10-inch display. So — cheaper Macs in the short term, crazy-insane iPhone tablet / MID thing riding a unicorn sometime later. You believe any of that?
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Apple mulling price cuts, developing netbook competitor? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4, iTunes 8.2 pre-release now live
Just two weeks after the last revision went up, Apple’s released iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4 to the developer community alongside an iTunes 8.2 pre-release. No word yet on what has / hasn’t been updated, but we do know the new iTunes is required to activate beta 4. More information as we get it.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]
Update: We’ve toyed with beta 4 for just a few quick moments now, and naturally, the first thing we had to check out was that previously-empty “Store” settings pane. It’s now populated, and it’s mega-boring; all it does is allow you to sign in and out of your iTunes account, and while signed in, there’s an Account Info button that lets you get booted out to an unstyled web page where you can view and edit your credit card information and the like. On the iTunes 8.2 side of things, we noticed that we were explicitly warned that the app would verify that our phone was activated for use with the beta firmware — we don’t remember seeing that before — and the Gracenote legal mumbo jumbo in the About window now specifically calls out both DVD and Blu-ray metadata, which we’re taking as a promising sign of playback support in the not-too-distant future. Thanks, David!
iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4, iTunes 8.2 pre-release now live originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Vinyl record iPod touch app gives you the spins
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Vinyl record iPod touch app gives you the spins originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Microsoft’s "Pink" smartphone could rival iPhone on Verizon
It’s crazy, we know. Just hours after hearing shockingly believable whispers that Apple’s white-hot iPhone 3G could be sashaying over to Verizon Wireless, in flies a Wall Street Journal report asserting that the suits in Redmond are (also?) in talks with America’s largest carrier. ‘Course, we’ve heard rumors that Microsoft was banging out a smartphone behind closed doors for centuries now, but much to our chagrin, there’s no mention of “Zune” in “Project Pink.” Instead, we’re told that said handset is a touchscreen-based multimedia phone that will aim to extend the Windows Mobile OS while “adding new software capabilities.” Not surprisingly, the article also mentions that Windows Marketplace would be front and center on the phone, and potentially most interesting is this tidbit: “a third-party is expected to make the device.” Hey HTC — seen any strange calls originating from the 425?
[Via Boy Genius Report]
Filed under: Cellphones
Microsoft’s “Pink” smartphone could rival iPhone on Verizon originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iLauncher for iPhone makes you more dangerous than a dictator with an inferiority complex
You might think that everything that could possibly be said or done with USB missile launchers had already been said and done, but you’d be wrong — dead wrong. The next (final?) frontier for these staples of modern cube warfare has arrived in the form of an iPhone app, iLauncher, that’ll allow you to control your PC-connected arsenal from afar over WiFi. It’s the coolest use of a phone as a deadly weapon since James Bond ghost rode a Bimmer in Tomorrow Never Dies using some crazy one-off Ericsson, but air / ground supremacy doesn’t come cheap: expect to spend $2.99 to nab this off the App Store.
Filed under: Cellphones, Misc. Gadgets, Handhelds
iLauncher for iPhone makes you more dangerous than a dictator with an inferiority complex originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Teachers: Monitor school attendance with iPhone 3G
Filed under: Education, iPhone
Here’s an interesting idea. The Mainichi Daily News is reporting that Japan’s Aoyama Gakuin University has distributed 550 iPhone 3Gs to staff and students so that they can use the phone’s GPS capabilities to monitor class attendance. In fact, the school will cover the basic charges so that the students aren’t required to absorb the extra financial burden.
That seems like an awfully expensive way to accomplish what my sixth grade teacher, Sr. Dolores, did by shouting, “Caolo!” and waiting for my “Here!”, but a major university has different needs (and budgets) than a tiny elementary school in Scranton.
We’ve seen similar large-scale iPhone adoption recently at University of Missouri’s Journalism School and Abilene Christian University. Good luck to everyone involved.
[Via MacDailyNews]
Teachers: Monitor school attendance with iPhone 3G originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 19 May 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Teachers: Monitor school attendance with iPhone 3G originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 19 May 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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