Oct 01

visiting a new place or looking for a particular business in your area?

I found a web-based Points of Interest website optimized for iPhone -
InfoSpace Find It!
has 8 Main Categories to browse or you can enter a name or a keyword to find a business. You can search by zip code or address.

navigate your iPhone’s Safari to : http://fiweb.infospace.com/iphone and try it yourself :)

web based POI on your iPhone

Oct 01

I’ve tried a few IM options for iPhone and the one I like the most is beejive. Very well optimized for iPhone web2.0 app.
unlike meebo you can set session timeout and stay connected even when browsing other websites or apps on your phone, tweak various settings to your appeal. it saves your login info on your phone and sends it to their server via ssl.

navigate your safari to http://iphone.beejive.com
and it’ll bring you to this screen:

beejive for iphone home page

NB: First time visit it may show a “Get Started” button.

tap on the “+” sign next to accounts and it’ll take you to this screen :

beejive for iphone add account page

from here you can tap on the network and it’ll pull the list of networks available for you to log into: AIM/.Mac; Google Talk; ICQ; Jabber; MySpace; Windows Live (MSN); Yahoo!
Fill in your username abd password, then choose a Login As status, select wether to save the account and tap Add at the top right. It’ll attempt to connect to verify your account and will add it upon successful login.

You can add this way all accounts you have and connect to whichever you want or to all of them at the same time.

Tap on the “wheel” at top right to adjust your Settings where you can customize the look and feel that you prefer. You can select a theme, adjust Buddy Settings, Chat Settings etc.

beejive Settings
(partial page screenshot)

Sep 28

SeeqPod.com - the home of playable search results.

I came across this great search engine for free online music that you can play right on your iPhone. When you tap on a result you like it opens the native quicktime player to play it.

From your iPhone’s Safari - Navigate to http://www.seeqpod.com/m/ ;

SeeqPod home page

tap Search to look for your favorite artists

seeqpod search lightbox

tap on a search result and enjoy =)

seeqpod search results
(it opens the native quicktime player of the phon)

You can also discover artists that you like and were not familiar with before; also browse alphabetically popular artists or popular playlists.

Sep 22

CountDownr released a portable version of their popular website.

Use your Google Calendar, custom events’ count-downers etc.


CountDownr
you can find it here http://www.countdownr.com/mobile.html