I love this. I haven’t bought it, but its existence did lead me to dust off my copy of Myst Masterpiece Edition and get it working in Vista. The iPhone app takes a whopping 727mb of space, and requires 1.5gb to install. The price is $5.99. I love this trend of classics being resurrected to the iPhone for low prices. First Wolfenstein, now this. Next up, Doom and Riven please.
A free iPhone app has been released for browsing and viewing TED talks. Get the app here. Note, these TEDtalks are also available as free video podcasts which can be uploaded to iPhone for offline viewing.
I’m not sure if this is really 10,000 apps, or even if they’re all unique in the pic, but this is pretty impressive either way, especially in its 4674×7011 glory. Here’s its main flickr page.
Well not really an application, but sort of. Here’s howto:
navigate your iPhone’s Safari to the online lyrics site of your choosing. lyricsmania doesn’t seem too bad.
zoom in on the search box
tap the + on Safari’s bottom and then select “Add to Home Screen”
title it Lyrics or something similarly appropriate
Done.. Just tap this new link on your home screen and it will load that search box where you can search on lyrics to an album/song you’re listening to.
SomaFM.com’s famous Groove Salad can be streamed right to your iPhone, wherever you go. The nice thing I discovered about this is that you can still do anything else on the phone while it plays, except for use the browser. I didn’t think apps were allowed to “run” in the background, but apparently SomaFM’s implementation gets around that. Pandora has that limitation, which I’m sure it will be freed of in the future when Apple relaxes the SDK.
Steps:
navigate to somafm.com in your iphone’s safari
tap ‘WiFi/3G Streams’ (unless you’re in the sticks then select Edge)
press the ‘+’, tap ‘Add to Home Screen‘, trim the name to SomaFM
tap a station and a player will appear, press play and the stream begins
return to your home screen and position your new SomaFM icon
Get it? lol. but it might be time to take the plunge, if you can stomach it. here’s a roundup of links from this first week of release. (and growing) (hint: ctrl-click is your friend)
Someone over at Fortune magazine is speculating just that. Which would be downright ridiculous.. I would probably have to get one. If these prognostications prove true I would hate to be one of those early adopters who have one already.
