Download Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.comDownload Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/media/feedlogo.gifDownload Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.comen-usCopyright 2008 Blogsmith, LLC. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/On the go reservations with OpenTable mobilehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/on-the-go-reservations-with-opentable-mobile/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/on-the-go-reservations-with-opentable-mobile/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/on-the-go-reservations-with-opentable-mobile/#commentsFiled under: , ,

OpenTable is a great way to make a reservation at a restaurant without having to speak to anyone. Their website is easy to use thanks in part to the drop down menus. So when it was time for OpenTable to release their mobile site we're glad they kept to the same, easy to use interface.

We tested the mobile site on Pocket Internet Explorer, Skyfire and iPhone's Safari and had no problems using the site on any of these browsers.

The mobile version is very straight forward. Pick a city, a restaurant, a date and time to make your reservation. And while it's quick and to the point the mobile version lacks any type of reviews or recommendations if you need a little help choosing a place to eat.

What would make this service even better would be the integration with sites like Yelp. Read a review of a restaurant and if it interest you, click on an OpenTable link to make the reservation right on the spot.

Still, given the lack of any reviews or recommended of places to try, the site is still a fun way to make a reservation while on the go.

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]]>iphonemobilewindows mobileWindowsMobileJoey Celis2008-07-03T13:00:00+00:00Evernote launches into open beta, introduces premium accountshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/24/evernote-launches-into-open-beta-introduces-premium-accounts/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/24/evernote-launches-into-open-beta-introduces-premium-accounts/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/24/evernote-launches-into-open-beta-introduces-premium-accounts/#commentsFiled under: , , , , , , ,

If you're not one of the 125,000 people who got a chance to try out the cross-platform note capture app Evernote during its private beta, don't despair. Evernote has launched an open beta, so now everyone can give it a try. If you were already in the beta, does this change anything for you? Yes, indeed it does: there are now two types of Evernote accounts, free and premium.

Free users keep all the features of the closed beta, with the caveat that you're now limited to 40mb a month of uploaded notes. If you're a power-user, or someone who's really sold on the Evernote lifestyle, go premium for 5 bucks a month or $45/year and get rid of that cap. Premium also comes with the option of SSL for all your uploads (for all those pictures of the enemy base, we guess) and priority access to the queue for Evernote's text-recognition features.
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]]>captureEvernoteGTDmobilenoteOS XOsXpublic betaPublicBetaWindowsJay Hathaway2008-06-24T19:00:00+00:00Use your iPhone or iTouch as a remote for your Mac or PChttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/11/use-your-iphone-or-itouch-as-a-remote-for-your-mac-or-pc/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/11/use-your-iphone-or-itouch-as-a-remote-for-your-mac-or-pc/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/11/use-your-iphone-or-itouch-as-a-remote-for-your-mac-or-pc/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

With the announcement of the new iPhone, we figure there will be some new interest in this bit of software that's been around for a while: Do you have a computer without one of those newfangled infrared spots and a remote control? Do you still want to be able to change tracks on iTunes or pause a movie from across the room? As long as you have an iPod or an iPod Touch laying around, Signal is the app for you. Its interface is almost indistinguishable from the regular iTunes player on those devices, which makes it a breeze to use.

Here's how it works: download Signal and open it up, then input the IP address it gives you into your iPhone or iPod. Boom! You can access all your iTunes media from your device. Signal lets you change speakers, adjust volume, turn on shuffle or repeat, and pretty much anything else you could do from within iTunes.

There's a full demo, so you might want to try it out before you shell out 25 bones, but here are a couple of things to consider:. If you're going to buy a standard remote anyway (like the Apple Remote, for example), remember that Signal will work with your iPhone or iTouch from anywhere your network reaches, so you can use it to shoot around walls. Also consider that Signal has both Mac and Windows versions, where some other remotes only work with one platform.
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]]>iPhoneiPod touchIpodTouchitunesremoteremote controlRemoteControlsignalJay Hathaway2008-06-11T14:00:00+00:00It's that time again! Apple Keynote in 60 Secondshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/10/its-that-time-again-apple-keynote-in-60-seconds/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/10/its-that-time-again-apple-keynote-in-60-seconds/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/10/its-that-time-again-apple-keynote-in-60-seconds/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,


So some guy named Steve Jobs got up on stage at something called the WWDC yesterday and talked about some products from a company called...orange or banana? Or was it carrot.

Oh, Apple, that's right.

It was long. And sometimes boring. So thanks to Mahalo Daily, here it is in Sixty Seconds. Did we get our iPhone with iRobot and iHateMakingMyOwnCoffee? We do get Exchange integration and now we're all Mobile with MobileMe and plus Apps for iPhone coming July 11th. Whew, that's a lot.

What they left out was that the new OS Snow Leopard or Rain Monkey or whatever (coming next year), will support multi-core processors, AND be able to take advantage of even more RAM (up to 16TB!).

See for yourselves.
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]]>applekeynotemahalomahalo dailyMahaloDailysteve jobsSteveJobswwdcDrew Olanoff2008-06-10T14:00:00+00:00Sling Media to demo SlingPlayer for iPhone and iPod Touchhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/08/sling-media-to-demo-slingplayer-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/08/sling-media-to-demo-slingplayer-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/08/sling-media-to-demo-slingplayer-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone
Want to watch live TV on your iPhone? Pretty soon you may be able to... assuming you've got a Slingbox set up at home. While Sling Media has been releasing client software for Windows, Mac, and a variety of cellphones for years that lets you stream live or recorded TV over the internet, there's been no iPhone version so far.

But tomorrow Sling Media will be showing off an early proof of concept version of SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone at WWDC. The company started working on the software before the release of the iPhone SDK, so this is not the final version of the software, and Sling Media does not plan to release a public version just yet. But if you happen to be in San Francisco and want to check it out for yourself, Sling Media product manager Vicky Shum will be hanging out at the Starbucks at 120 4th Street from 10am to 4pm today.

The company will be releasing a commercial version of SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone at some point. Just not this week. This week, the company's releasing a pretty picture (see above), and a bit of hope.

Update: Check out some hot video action after the jump, courtesy of Dave Zatz:

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]]>iphonesling-mediaslingplayerslingplayer-mobileslingplayer-mobile-for-the-iphoneBrad Linder2008-06-08T22:30:00+00:00VLC on the iPhone and iPod Touch? Yephttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/05/vlc-on-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch-yep/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/05/vlc-on-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch-yep/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/05/vlc-on-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch-yep/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

iphoneSo this uber smart dude Zodttd, has done something pretty sweet.

He has successfully ported the popular VLC media player over to the iPhone. Yes, the iPhone.

Big deal you say? Well check out what you'll now be able to do on your little piece of Apple mobile goodness: Drag, drop and play MPEG/MPG, AVI and MP3 media formats.

Woohooo!

Soon it will play FLAC and OGG and he's checking out how to build support for VCD, DivX, WMA, and WMV.

You will have to break free from the jail on your iPhone to see this baby working, and it's currently in beta.

One question though, Why aren't these formats already supported by Apple? Aren't we all tired of the format wars at this point? If you pay $400 or more for a device, shouldn't you get a say in what plays on it and what doesn't?

What do you think? Comment us up.

[via Gizmodo]
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]]>appleiphonemediavlcDrew Olanoff2008-06-05T15:00:00+00:00StyleTap confirms plan to bring PalmOS apps to the iPhonehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/01/styletap-confirms-plan-to-bring-palmos-apps-to-the-iphone/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/01/styletap-confirms-plan-to-bring-palmos-apps-to-the-iphone/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/01/styletap-confirms-plan-to-bring-palmos-apps-to-the-iphone/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,


StyleTap is an application that lets Windows Mobile users run PalmOS applications. A few months ago the makers of StyleTap announced plans to port the application to run on Symbian smartphones. They also demonstrated a version of StyleTape CrossPlatform running on an iPhone, but said the video (shown above) was just for demonstration purposes and that no decision had been made yet on whether to create an iPhone version.

Now it's official. StyleTap is coming to the iPhone. The company plans to release the application in early July. That means you'll soon be able to run over 20,000 applications designed for PalmOS on an iPhone or iPod touch.

The company said they wanted to gauge the interest in the product before deciding whether to proceed with development. The videos posted to YouTube and Viddler have been watched more than 800,000 times, so apparently there is some interest.

[via Palm InfoCenter]
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]]>iphonepalmosstyletapBrad Linder2008-06-01T10:00:00+00:00Metosphere: create geotagged objects with Fire Eagle and iPhonehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/05/13/metosphere-create-geotagged-objects-with-fire-eagle-and-iphone/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/05/13/metosphere-create-geotagged-objects-with-fire-eagle-and-iphone/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/05/13/metosphere-create-geotagged-objects-with-fire-eagle-and-iphone/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

GeoTagYahoo! Fire Eagle got a lot of attention when it launched back in March, and for good reason: a cross-platform system for building location data into an application? The buzz died down, though, because there weren't any cool applications using Fire Eagle. That's changing now, though, as the first wave of Fire Eagle stuff rolls out. Metosphere for the iPhone is one of the best of this bunch.

Metosphere has several uses. Like any app that takes advantage of Fire Eagle, it can update your location using your GPS or a WiFi hotspot. It also shows you nearby events on Eventful and Upcoming, and nearby Wikipedia pages. There's a map that shows you all of this, plus meetups, emergency alerts, and the best part: messages and geocaches you can create directly from Metosphere. There's no signup required, just use your existing Yahoo! ID.

Geocaching is going to be a big deal very soon, and Metosphere is a great way to play with it on a platform you already know how to use. Show it to your friends and leave each other messages at your favorite hangouts, or start a city-wide scavenger hunt. We'll keep covering new Fire Eagle tools as they advance -- that monthly renewal email is a good reminder to see what developers have been working on.
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]]>fire eagleFireEaglegeocachinggeotaggingiphonemetospheremobileyahooJay Hathaway2008-05-13T18:00:00+00:00Google joins Bloglines with iPhone version of Readerhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/05/13/google-joins-bloglines-with-iphone-version-of-reader/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/05/13/google-joins-bloglines-with-iphone-version-of-reader/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/05/13/google-joins-bloglines-with-iphone-version-of-reader/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

Google Reader iPhone

Monday Google unveiled yet another beta site. Google Reader is now formatted for the iPhone. iPhone users tired of pinching and stretching and tapping text only links in the normal version of Reader or dealing with the plain Classic mobile version of Reader can head over to http://www.google.com/reader/i/ to check out the new beta site.

With the iPhone-enabled web-app, Google joins Ask.com in the web-based RSS reader marketplace. Ask.com's Bloglines has had an iPhone version available to users since July 19, 2007. iBloglines was created with less than a 1000 lines of code on a lark by an internal developer who bought an iPhone and wanted better access to the site.

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]]>appleask.combloglinescomparisongooglegoogle readerGoogleReaderiPhonenetnewswirereaderreviewrssMichael Schleifstein2008-05-13T10:30:00+00:00iSwish: Yet another pretty iPhone clone for Windows Mobilehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/30/iswish-yet-another-pretty-iphone-clone-for-windows-mobile/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/30/iswish-yet-another-pretty-iphone-clone-for-windows-mobile/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/30/iswish-yet-another-pretty-iphone-clone-for-windows-mobile/#commentsFiled under: ,


While Flick Software's iSwish Project certainly isn't the first attempt we've seen to emulate the iPhone interface for Windows Mobile, it's definitely one of the prettiest, most effective looking. At least if we go on the video above. But if you look closely, you'll notice a few things in this video:
  1. While the demonstration shows a user zooming in and out of pictures by "pinching" the screen, our guess is that the device, which doesn't recognize multi-touch is actually just detecting the motion of one finger.
  2. The program launcher interface is pretty, but at least once in the video, we're pretty sure we caught the producers stopping and restarting the video to make it look like an application actually started up more quickly.
The biggest problem with any iPhone clone for Windows Mobile is that beauty is only skin deep. The software appears to include a program launcher and support for SummerBoard themes, and maybe a program or two. But once you launch your application, you'll find that you've still got the same Windows Mobile software running under the hood. Some of it's pretty, some of it's functional, and some is anything but (Pocket Internet Explorer, anybody?)

Flick's iSwish is due out sometime in May, and should work with a variety of Windows Mobile devices, including older gizmos like the Dell Axim X50, which does not (officially) run Windows Mobile 6. So there's hope if you've got an older PDA or phone.
[via Engadget]
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]]>flickiphoneiswishBrad Linder2008-04-30T10:30:00+00:00Interview: Michael Dalesandro, CEO "Where I've Been"http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/29/interview-michael-dalesandro-ceo-where-ive-been/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/29/interview-michael-dalesandro-ceo-where-ive-been/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/29/interview-michael-dalesandro-ceo-where-ive-been/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Where I've Been
The "social networking" space is chock-full of applications, plug-ins and other bits and pieces designed to hopefully enhance the user's experience online and potentially in their real lives as well. Unfortunately, some of these applications or plug-ins are often uninspired and do little, if anything, to accomplish this goal.

Sometimes, however, an application or plug-in is able to provide user's with useful services and a forum to express themselves. Case in point, "Where I've Been," an application and a stand-alone website which can actually enhance the user's experience by providing useful tools such as travel-related tips, interactive maps and a forum to showcase and discuss where they've traveled to.

At the helm of "Where I've Been" is CEO Michael Dalesandro who, in a short time, has managed to transform "Where I've Been" from its humble beginnings into a very successful application in use by millions of users each day. Recently, I sat down with with him to discuss "Where I've Been," what it does and where its going.

CHRIS ULLRICH: Michael, thanks for taking the time to talk with me.

MICHAEL DALESANDRO: Not a problem.

CU: How and when did you first get involved with "Where I've been"?

MD: Craig Ulliott was working for Blueye.com as a developer when he brought me the concept for "Where I've Been." He wrote the application and then it launched on Facebook first. That's where it all started.

CU: For someone unfamiliar with "Where I've been", can you describe it?

MD: "Where I've Been" is a simple way for people to connect and express themselves primarily through their travel experiences. It allows the user to highlight their travels graphically and show what places, cities, countries they've been to.

The can share where they have been, where have lived and where they want to go with friends, family and others.

CU: How does "Where I've been" benefit the user? Why should someone use it?

Continue reading Interview: Michael Dalesandro, CEO "Where I've Been"

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]]>applicationsfacebookmyspacesocialtraveltweet-thisChris Ullrich2008-04-29T20:00:00+00:00MythTV FrontEnd for the iPhonehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/23/mythtv-frontend-for-the-iphone/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/23/mythtv-frontend-for-the-iphone/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/23/mythtv-frontend-for-the-iphone/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

MythTV iPhoneWant to watch TV on your iPhone? Yesterday we would have said the best way to do this is to purchase TV shows from the iTunes store or transfer recordings (or downloads) from your computer to your iPhone the old fashioned way. But now Chris Carey has released a MythTV FrontEnd for the iPhone.

The application lets you browse recorded shows, check out program information, and stream videos from your Linux PC with MythTV BackEnd installed.

While Sling Media is considering developing a version of its SlingPlayer software for the iPhone that will let Slingbox owners stream content from their home TV or PVR to a handset, Carey's MythTV FrontEnd application is the first tool I'm aware of that actually lets you stream recorded TV to an iPhone.

You can check out a video of MythTV for the iPhone after the jump.

[via Automated Home]

Update: Dave Zatz reminds us that Elgato's EyeTV software also supports streaming recorded programs from a Mac to the iPhone.

Continue reading MythTV FrontEnd for the iPhone

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]]>iphonemythtvsling-mediaslingplayertvBrad Linder2008-04-23T12:00:00+00:00Mowser is dead, the mobile web lives on.http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/15/mowser-is-dead-the-mobile-web-lives-on/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/15/mowser-is-dead-the-mobile-web-lives-on/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/15/mowser-is-dead-the-mobile-web-lives-on/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

MowserMowser is a tool that helps you cram full web pages onto the tiny web browser on your cellphone. Just go to the Mowser web site, type in the URL you want to read, and Mowser will strip away all the unnecessary visual information that looks fine on a desktop web browser but bogs down your cellphone.

We first covered Mowser when it launched about a year ago, and we're sad to tell you that founder Russell Beattie says the product is "at the end of its life in its current form."


Beattie reports that his company has been having a difficult time raising funds and has been making very little money from advertising. Rather than regroup, Beattie is giving up because he says he doesn't believe in the "mobile web" anymore.

That's kind of sad, because the service was fairly useful if you've got an old school browser and an old school phone, something interesting is happening with the mobile web. Cellphone users either don't bother signing up for web service at all, or if they do they're starting to flock towards devices like the iPhone which can support full web pages without any Mowser-style squashing. The interesting thing about products like Mowser is that they're designed for yesterday's mobile web, not tomorrow's. If Beattie had launched his company in 2004 instead of 2007 it might have been successful. But today the distinctions between the mobile web and the full web are starting to blur, which leaves services like Mowser out in the cold.
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]]>mobile-webmowserBrad Linder2008-04-15T10:00:00+00:00StyleTap PalmOS emulator coming to Symbian, maybe iPhonehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/11/styletap-palmos-emulator-coming-to-symbian-maybe-iphone/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/11/styletap-palmos-emulator-coming-to-symbian-maybe-iphone/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/11/styletap-palmos-emulator-coming-to-symbian-maybe-iphone/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

StyleTap is an application that lets you run PalmOS software on Windows Mobile devices. The company has been working on a Symbian version of StyleTap since last year, and is now looking for beta testers. The test will begin on May 12th, and users can sign up by sending an email to StyleTap asking to be part of the beta.

In other news, while the company hasn't exactly committed to releasing a version of StyleTap for the iPhone, it's looking more and more likely that we'll see an official version at some point. In February, the team posted a video demonstrating an experimental version of StyleTap running on an iPhone. This was before Apple released the iPhone SDK, so the team obviously had to Jailbreak an iPhone to get the software running.

Now that the SDK is available, an official version could be in the works, but according to the StyleTap blog, developing the application isn't quite as easy as you might think, thanks to some "legal roadblocks." So StyleTap is asking anyone who'd be willing to pay for software that lets you run Palm apps on an iPhone to let Apple know.

[via jkOnTheRun]
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]]>iphonesdkstyletapsymbianBrad Linder2008-04-11T09:00:00+00:00TreasureMyText stores your text messages onlinehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/10/treasuremytext-stores-your-text-messages-online/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/10/treasuremytext-stores-your-text-messages-online/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/10/treasuremytext-stores-your-text-messages-online/#commentsFiled under: , ,

If you shed a tear every time you have to delete a text message at the bottom of your inbox, or if you can't bring yourself to part with the latest ROTFLOL SMS sent by your best friend, then TreasureMyText is for you.

TreasureMyText is an online service that will store all of your text messages online: the good, the bad, the mundane, the unintelligible. Simply create an account and forward any text message to their standard rate numbers (available worldwide), and your message is forever immortalized.

True to web 2.0 standards, TreasureMyText also has a sharing feature called TextStream (which definitely reminds us of Twitter). You can choose to share your text messages with absolutely everyone (and you wonder why the internet is sagging under the weight of needless information?), or you can pick and choose friends and other members to share your messages with.

TreasureMyText also offers simple folders for organization, and an easy-to-use contacts list.

If you're wondering where the iPhone fits into all of this (since you can't forward text messages with the iPhone), the programmers at TreasureMyText have created a mobile client for your jailbroken iPhone that will allow you to archive your SMS over EDGE and WiFi. They have also stated their intention to create a more robust iPhone application with the release of the official iPhone SDK.

[via Technobuzz]
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]]>archiveSMSSimon Kerbel2008-04-10T16:00:00+00:00Dev Chair : iPhone SDK experiencehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/28/dev-chair-iphone-sdk-experience/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/28/dev-chair-iphone-sdk-experience/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/28/dev-chair-iphone-sdk-experience/#commentsFiled under: , , ,


The iPhone SDK has been out for couple of weeks now and I've been using it to develop an application for my work as a technology demonstrator. My experience thus far has been largely positive. I wasn't surprised by how well-made the SDK is, even at this beta stage. The amount of work involved in releasing any SDK, let alone one that is so tightly scrutinized, cannot be underestimated.

Consider that I am learning three new things simultaneously: programming in Objective-C, learning how to use Xcode, and what is available in the iPhone SDK, I am going to describe the whole experience instead of just confined to the SDK.

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]]>applec#iphoneiphone sdkiphonesdkobjective-cresharpervisual studiovisualstudioxcodeAlex Hung2008-03-28T15:00:00+00:00Microsoft could bring Office suite, other apps to the iPhonehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/25/microsoft-could-bring-office-suite-otther-apps-to-the-iphone/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/25/microsoft-could-bring-office-suite-otther-apps-to-the-iphone/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/25/microsoft-could-bring-office-suite-otther-apps-to-the-iphone/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

iPhone SDK
While we're guessing Microsoft would love to make Windows Mobil customers out of each and every iPhone user, that doesn't mean the company doesn't see a business opportunity in Apple's cellphone. After all, Microsoft has been selling Office software to Mac users for years, so now that Apple has provided an SDK for the iPhone, why not port Office Mobile and other Microsoft applications to the iPhone?

Fortune Magazine reports that a team of Microsoft developers has been poring over the iPhone SDK. While the company still has to determine whether it would make business sense to develop for the iPhone, doing so shouldn't be hard. After all, Apple is licensing Microsoft's ActiveSync and Exchange Server technology to provide push email capabilities.

What Microsoft applications would you like to see for the iPhone? We're going to assume Office Mobile is a given, but what about Windows Live Messenger? What we're really hoping for is Virtual PC 2007, but we're not going to hold our breath.

[via Brighthand]
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]]>iphoneofficeoffice-mobilesdkBrad Linder2008-03-25T20:00:00+00:00BBC's iPlayer DRM scheme cracked againhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/14/bbcs-iplayer-drm-scheme-cracked-again/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/14/bbcs-iplayer-drm-scheme-cracked-again/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/14/bbcs-iplayer-drm-scheme-cracked-again/#commentsFiled under: , ,

BBC, DRM, and the iPhone: it doesn't sound very steamy. But things are definitely heating up in regards to the BBC and DRM.

The release of BBC's new iPlayer brought with it the typical suffocating DRM restrictions, with the typical amount of outrage in the blogosphere.

However, when the BBC released the new beta iPlayer software that allowed users to view BBC streams on their iPhone, the streams made for the iPhone didn't didn't include any DRM.

Certain intrepid programmers and users were quick to jump on the fact that the iPhone streams were unencrypted. One user was able to use a PC to watch the unencrypted streams by using the Firefox plugin Fast Agent Switcher to convince the iPlayer that it was an iPhone. Developer Paul Battley released a Ruby script to download the iPhone formatted files to your PC.

In response, the BBC iPlayer took countermeasures to block the streams from non-iPhone devices. Just yesterday, in fact.


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]]>BBCdrmiPhoneiPlayerSimon Kerbel2008-03-14T16:00:00+00:00Apple announces iPhone SDK and other goodieshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/06/apple-announces-iphone-sdk-news-why-we-care/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/06/apple-announces-iphone-sdk-news-why-we-care/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/06/apple-announces-iphone-sdk-news-why-we-care/#commentsFiled under: ,

iPhone and Spore
So you may have heard, Apple threw a little press event today. And while we won't get into all of the gritty details (our friends at Engadget have already done a pretty good job of that), we did want to highlight a few of the more exciting announcements related to the iPhone SDK:
  • Apple has licensed Microsoft's ActiveSync technology to enable Exchange synchronization. That means Push email, calendar, and contacts.
  • The iPhone SDK is available for free today to developers who want to create applications which can be run natively on the iPhone.
  • Developers will have to pay $99 per year to have their items listed in the iPhone App Store. Apple will also take a 30% cut of any sales you make through the App Store.
  • Users will be able to install 3rd party apps through iTunes or the App Store.
  • Some of the applications demoed today include AOL Instant Messenger, a business tool from Salesforce.com, and several games including Spore. Yes, Spore.
  • The iPhone 2.0 software that will let users run these 3rd party apps will be available as a free update in June.
One thing the iPhone SDK will not enable? Software that unlocks the iPhone so it can be used with different Wireless carriers. And that means that while there's now an official way for developers to get their software on the iPhone, there's at least one good reason that we still expect some lively updates from the iPhone hacking community.

Oh yeah, and the version 2.0 software will be available for the iPod Touch as well, but it won't be free. No price has been set yet.
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]]>activesyncexchangeiphonesdkBrad Linder2008-03-06T18:30:00+00:00iTunes syncing now works in Linux with Winehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/04/itunes-syncing-now-works-in-linux-with-wine/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/04/itunes-syncing-now-works-in-linux-with-wine/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/04/itunes-syncing-now-works-in-linux-with-wine/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

Linux iTunes
Linux users aren't exactly known as big fans of proprietary software, but sometimes a big commercial app comes in handy. iTunes has been up and running on Linux for a while now, but it was missing one big reason to choose it over an open source music player: iPod Touch and iPhone syncing. These two Apple gadgets need to be unlocked to work with a third-party music player.

But now iTunes on Linux is reportedly able to recognize and sync all iPod models, including the Touch and the iPhone. Maarten Lankhorst recently alerted the wine-devel mailing list that he got iPod-iTunes syncing to work on a Linux system with Wine, iTunes 7.6, and minimal patches. Good news for anyone whose 'Pod wasn't supported by the available open source apps.

There's still a little more work to be done before this will work on unpatched Wine: direct access to the device in explorer is not supported, although it should be coming soon. For now, at least there's a solution for Windows users who also want to keep their iPhones and iTouches locked - even if it's still proprietary.

[via Tombuntu]
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]]>iPhoneiPodiTunesJailbreakLinuxSyncWineJay Hathaway2008-03-04T15:30:00+00:00