Simplify Media Mobile For iPhone Lets You Stream iTunes Libraries Over Wi-Fi

Simplify Media’s just released a new version of their Mobile suite for iPhone that lets you stream iTunes libraries from your friends across the internet. It works in much the same way the desktop version does. Load up Simplify Media on a desktop with a library that you want to share, then log into your Simplify Media Mobile on your iPhone (with Wi-Fi) and you can stream all of your and your friends’ music back over the air.

If you really want to stream on the go, without Wi-Fi, you could probably rig up a Wi-Fi internet connection sharing thing with a Windows Mobile phone as well.

We tested it over Wi-Fi and it streamed back all of Adam Pash’s songs without a problem (eventually). It crashed and hung the first couple times. [Simplify Media]

iPhone on the Road: a substitute for paper boarding passes

Filed under: iPod Family, Cult of Mac, iPhone

Some things sound really cool — until you actually have to step up and do them in real time. TUAW reader Gerald Buckley’s story about traveling with his iPhone strikes me as belonging to this class.

When he approached the American Airlines counter to use his iPhone as a boarding pass, the coolness quotient for his entire trip got bumped up several notches. It seems that he navigated over to AA.com using Mobile Safari, signed in and displayed a PDF of his boarding pass on-screen. The American Airlines counter agent in San Antonio “humored” him and scanned the barcode as displayed on his iPhone. The scan worked, and Buckley proceeded with his travels (much to the envy and amazement of his fellow passengers, no doubt).

Here’s the thing though. If it were me, this would have totally gone another way. First, while waiting on line, I would have had bad WiFi. It would have taken me about 20 minutes to type in my information and the people behind me on line would have been coughing *significantly* to get me to keep moving along with the line as I tried to type, move all my luggage and possibly keep three extremely rambunctious children in order. Finally, I would get to the gate agent and I would have gotten the snarky impatient version — somehow I always do. Assuming that I could even get all the typing and navigation done, I know in my heart that the response would have been “you need a printed boarding pass, ma’am.”

Of course, this is entirely academic because I have not been granted a boarding pass for the last 5 or 6 years due entirely, I’m sure, to my last name. It’s always “You must check in at the counter” — which is way easier than even a boarding pass because I just swipe my credit card.

All that having been said, TUAW congratulates Mr. Buckley’s ingenuity and offers the example of his experience to speed you your travels in a uniquely geek fashion.

If you’ve got the travel bug (with or without your iPhone), be sure to visit our sister site Gadling for all things flight-related.

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DLO VentMount iPhone Car Holder is Practical, Convenient

Using a car’s AC vents to hold cellphones is an old idea. Using a car’s AC vent to hold an iPhone so you can watch movies/Cover Flow your way through your music is a new idea. DLO’s VentMount seems like an incredibly practical way to keep your iPhone/iPod Touch within short reach, especially in cars (like ours) that don’t have a convenient cupholder location to shove it into. It’s not mindblowing, but it’s $24.99 we’d gladly spend for usability’s sake. [DLO]

Unclog your sync (between Safari and your iPhone)
Has Safari been naughty and stopped syncing your bookmarks with your iPhone? The culprit, it seems, is the recent Safari 3.1 update. Fortunately, the fix is in, direct from Apple. According to this Knowledge Base article, running the following command in Terminal should fix all your woes: defaults delete com.apple.safari…

Vegas Hearts
The card game of hearts, for your iPhone or iPod touch.http://www.tictacwhoa.com/hearts.html