And He Blogs

An important, and long-awaited announcement from Flickr is their new iPhone application and it looks to be a good one. I literally started playing with it a few minutes ago and quickly grabbed some screenshots from the iPhone screen. The opening screen gives a nice slideshow of photos from your contacts. One of them, depicted [...]

Tags: Flickr, iphone, photography

Several weeks ago I posted about AudioBoo, a way to instantly post audio on the web and feature that content in a WordPress blog (at UMW Blogs). In my continued fascination with instant publishing, I wanted to bring you the equivalent in instant image publishing.
Here’s what you need. An iPhone, using its built-in camera. An [...]

Tags: Flickr, iphone, WordPress

Sometimes Apple leaves features out of products for inexplicable reasons . We’re on version 3.0 of the iPhone software and their iTunes application does not allow you to subscribe to a podcast using the standard itpc:// protocol, nor can you add a feed manually, like you can with the desktop version of iTunes. The screenshot [...]

Tags: iphone

After our presentation at ACCS 2009, I’ve had a couple of “Wedding Singer” moments where it would have been nice to know that developers were working on new versions of plugins, like WPTouch for the iPhone. Another one popped on my radar today, thanks to my office-mate Patrick. The web service Slideshare has enabled, in [...]

Tags: Mobile, PowerPoint, slideshare

Help me test out a web service (Poll Everywhere) by answering the following question:
POLL CLOSED
Add your answer in the comments . . .
The service allows polling to take place with a cell phone that has SMS capabilities. We’ll see if it beats clickers into submission.

Tags: cellphones, Mobile, polls, sms

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The Internet is great for fact checking. When it comes to fact checking, I find that Paul Thurrott does a great job with this. When it comes to the new iPhone, Paul does some debunking of the hype surrounding the new 3G version. The purpose of this post is to bring [...]

I have recently held an iPhone in my hands. It’s nice and really nicely designed. I mentioned to some others recently that it is a tough, durable phone. For those of you who don’t know about Blendtec, they sell commercial, restaurant quality blenders (i.e. expensive). They have a whole series of videos, videoblogging style about [...]

There’s been lots of talk lately, in our office, and in the blogosphere, about Mobile Phones/Mobile computing. I plan to talk more about it, as I do some (what I think are) valuable experiments. I start by showing the screenshot above of my blog on my Cingular 8125.
The software that I used to get the [...]