GMail for iPhone has been updated with a cool new feature, allowing swipe-to-archive any email. I find this very useful, as I’m trying to keep my GMail inbox as clean as possible, and tend to archive emails as soon they’re processed. With this new feature — which BTW is available for the iPhone users, only…
CardStar wants you to dump your membership cards
CardStar is a neat mobile service-application combo that wants to gather around loyalty cards, merchants and coupons around their platform. The main idea seems to tackle the membership/loyalty cards market and sell consumers the benefit of not having to take their cards with them when shopping. As a result, you’ll no longer have to carry…
CliffsNotes now available for students with iPhones and iPod Touches
The famous quick crib sheet for English and Literature classes, CliffsNotes, is coming to an iPhone/iPod Touch near you. Actually, it’s not a single but a series of CliffNotes To Go applications that are now available in the AppStore. Among the features found in each app are multiple-choice quizzes, text-highlighting, interactive map that links character…
Lonely Planet goes iPhone
This is far from being the hot news, but it’s important nevertheless. The company behind the popular travel guides, Lonely Planet, is going iPhone, big time. Right from the start, they’ve launched not one but a series of their travel guides for the platform. Feature wise, Lonely Planet’s apps support personalization, allowing users to mark…
The iPhone 3GS rattle – Tale of a manufacturer’s defect?
The iPhone 3GS is a rockin’ smartphone in so many ways. Faster performance, upgraded hardware, a full-featured (finally) iPhone OS 3.0 – we almost couldn’t ask for more. That’s why it’s so sad that the iPhone 3GS’s build quality has me singing the “shake, rattle and roll” blues. Some sort of hardware defect has reared…
Shazam Plays Nice with Twitter and, For Some Reason, Google Maps
Shazam for the iPhone, most prominently known for its music identification service, just underwent a nice upgrade thanks to OS 3.0 that includes three new features. First up, and arguably the most useful, Shazam now lets you send your tunes to Twitter so you can share recently-discovered music to all your loyal followers. Blip.fm has…
Wildcharge Wireless Charger Coming to iPhone
You might remember Wildcharge, a company that make special pads that allow for wireless charging. Of course, the downside was that you had to have a special pack attached to the back of your phone, so there goes any skins or holsters you might have been using. Luckily, their latest product for the iPhone is…
Finger Marathon II Gets Your Fingers-a-Runnin’
You may (or may not) have noticed that I wasn’t around IntoMobile much this past weekend. As we do every year, my lady and I put on our volunteering hats to help run the signage crew at the Manitoba Marathon. The gig involves an all-nighter, driving around town, putting signs up all over the 26.2…
Flick Your Way to Fun: Paper Toss for the iPhone from Backflip Studios
Often times I can’t resist the free app. You know, as long as the concept is intriguing, the graphics look half decent, and reviews are solid… I’ll almost give them a whirl. One of my favorite freebies for the iPhone lately is ‘Paper Toss’ from the folks at Backflip Studios. The object of the game…
iPhone Dev Team releases ‘ultrasn0w’ unlock utility for iPhone OS 3.0
Those Dev Team guys, they’re a genius bunch. Following on the recent release of the iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak application, PwnageTool 3.0, the iPhone Dev Team has delivered on their promise of a simple software-unlock utility for the latest iPhone OS 3.0. The much-anticipated “ultrasn0w” utility is now live and ready to unlock any iPhone…