May 23
IntelliScreen Brings Useful Widgets to iPhone’s Home Screen
Instead of just staring the time, date and your choice of wallpaper when you start up the iPhone, why not make it more Windows Mobile-y by putting useful information there*? The app IntelliScreen lets you show either your upcoming calendar items, recent emails, recent text messages, the weather, or even an RSS feed up on the standby screen, letting you see what you need to see without even unlocking your phone. Useful? Definitely. Cluttered? For sure.
It’s also in beta, and may crash or even wipe some of your data if it conflicts with some of your other apps. Be careful.
* Yes this is one of the few times that people want to make the iPhone more like Windows Mobile.
[ModMyiPhone via Just Another iPhone Blog via Lifehacker]
May 23
Vegas Hearts
The card game of hearts, for your iPhone or iPod touch.http://www.tictacwhoa.com/hearts.html
May 23
Griffin iTrip AutoPilot FM transmitter for iPhone
Filed under: Accessories, iPod Family, iPhone
The iTrip AutoPilot from Griffin is one of the first FM transmitter/chargers compatible with the iPhone. It features Griffin’s SmartScan to automatically find and save three FM stations with the least interference and supports RDS allowing compatible radios to display track information on the head unit. The control dongle includes a display showing the frequency it’s broadcasting, as well as three buttons that allow you to control playback. Personally I’ve never been a fan of FM transmitters, but at the very least this one looks slick!
The iTrip AutoPilot will sell for $99.99 and is listed as “Coming Soon.” In addition to the iPhone it is compatible with all iPods with a dock connector.
[via iPhone Alley]
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May 23
iPhone leaves AT&T sitting pretty
The iPhone Central Depart of Statistical Analysis and Strategic Systems (yes, we do have SASS) brings you some more fascinating numbers, courtesy of Rubicon Consulting (the same firm that told us last month that iPhone users are young, rich, and technologically savvy). It seems that getting in the iPhone game…
May 23
Geniuses at AT&T Rush Out a Package with Only a Plastic Bag Inside
We’ve shown you irresponsible shipping before, but this one takes the cake. Brett from TUAW ordered a refurbed 16GB iPhone. He got (and was charged) for two by accident. OK, that’s annoying enough. But the next day he received another package from AT&T. It was shipped 2-day via DHL. Inside? One empty plastic bag, complete with an invoice for “75011 MISC iPhone PPA BAG … $0.00.”
Seriously, how does this happen? I know a lot of shipping is automated these days, but was there not a single person along the way who noticed that a package was going out with only a bag inside? Rush, no less! And how many times do things like this happen? It’s probably not an isolated incident if a writer from a prominent Apple blog happened to be on the receiving end of it. If you’re wondering where all those surcharges on your AT&T bill are going to, consider it a “We’re a poorly run company” tax to pay for garbage like this. [TUAW]
