iPhone Investigator

News and information about software for the Apple iPhone.

Schmap this! Schmap, a local search and mapping application, is now available for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. The search service lets iPhone users easily search for a local Starbucks or find an Italian restaurant when visiting a new city right from their smartphone.
Schmap’s app not only lets users browse city guides or [...]

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Diotek, a Korean mobile software developer in Korea, announced DioPen, a handwriting recognition software designed specifically for Apple’s iPhone. Using just a fingertip, the newly created software allows input directly on the iPhone’s touchscreen. DioPen is able to to recognize English, European, Korean, and Chinese characters and digits in either cursive or print.
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For those iPhone users that are quite dependant on reminders and have sticky notes surrounding their desk, enter Stickified.com. Stickified.com is an iPhone and iPod Touch compatible service that lets users create and edit stickies for reminders and to-do lists. Stickified.com is free to use and is web-based.
For more information, go to Stickified.com.
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During CTIA in Las Vegas, Wayfinder, a supplier of location based applications for mobile devices, launched its Power Search application for the Apple iPhone. The Power Search application allows users to enter names, phone numbers, and other pertinent information in the Safari browser while searching through 100 million local search records around the globe [...]

Popularity: 41% [?]

NetBlender has officially launched BD Touch, a technology allowing communication between the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch and a Blu-ray player. Using NetBlender’s BD Live, a WiFi connection is made with the iPhone and then paired up with a compatible Blu-ray player. Audio, text, video, and Blu-ray player commands can all be controlled [...]

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Apple has released the third beta of its SDK for the iPhone, just 10 days after it released SDK Beta 2. The new update fixes various bugs and “will support the latest iPhone OS”.
The updated iPhone OS firmware, version 5A210d, contains a few fixes also and new features centered on Microsoft Exchange. The [...]

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The folks over at Snapture are providing some free fixes for the iPhone’s camera. The creators took it upon themselves to add some enhancements to make the iPhone’s camera more user friendly. The following are some of Snapture’s features:

Digital Zoom - 3x max digital zoom slider
Burst Mode - fast and slow burst modes
Color [...]

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Apple has released its second generation beta of its SDK for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The new version is available now and includes an Interface Builder, which Apple describes as a tool to help users build personalized UI’s. Sample code is included. Apple released its first beta SDK earlier this [...]

Popularity: 50% [?]