Archive for July, 2008

iPhone App Mini-Reviews

OmniFocus ($19.99) - The powerful (and expensive) to-do list. Makes good use of the iPhone location feature to show you what tasks are closest to where you currently are. Also syncs with the desktop version of OmniFocus.

Truveo - Search and watch videos from a ton of different websites (YouTube, DailyMotion, CNN, Revision3, and a lot more). Try the web version here.

BoxOffice - Get movie times and RottenTomatoes ratings for the latest movies. Easier to use than Movies.app and trailer links are coming soon

Tomatoes - Search RottenTomatoes for movie reviews. Currently a bit light on features, just has search and doesn’t show any of the reviews.

Save Benjis - Price search on the iPhone. Searches dozens of stores, gives you product description and reviews.

Shazam - Hold the iPhone up to some music to identify the artist, album and track. The service is free for a limited time.

Midomi - Identify artist, album and track by either singing into the iPhone or holding it up to a speaker. Doesn’t seem to be as accurate as Shazam.

Last.fm, Pandora, AOL Radio - Stream music to your iPhone, as long as it’s in the foreground.

Twitterific - Interface is a bit laggy, but offers some neat features. Includes a mini-browser so clicking links keeps you in Twitterific. Also has a cool posting interface. Wish the location feature could be disabled, posts your exact longitude and latitude. I’m sticking with m.twitter.com

WeatherBug - The only free weather app, and it works pretty good. Radar is overlayed on Google Maps so you can zoom and move exactly where you want, but it isn’t animated.

Facebook - Includes chat, but without background processes it’s not as useful. Also doesn’t display all the information that the iPhone web version does.

Enigmo ($9.99) - Excellent iPhone game. Challenging, but not impossible.

Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D ($9.99) - Nice kart racing game with 12 tracks and 8 weapons

Super Monkey Ball ($9.99) - 100 levels of over-sensitive controls

AquaForest ($7.99) - Play with water, fire, explosives and more. Confusing interface and kind of laggy

iMaze, Spinner - Maze games controlled by accelerometer

Tap Tap Revenge - Guitar Hero on your iPhone

Other Apps - Banner Free (scrolling LED banner), Blip Solitaire (one-person Pong), Morocco (Othello), Light, NearPics (pictures near you), RotaryDial, PhoneSaber, AIM, LifeGame

Am I missing any great apps? What are your favorites?

Get Google Results in the Firefox Awesome Bar

I just found a new Firefox extension called CyberSearch. This extension allows you to get Google search results (and site search results) in the Firefox 3 Awesome Bar (aka address bar). After typing your query into the address bar, you’ll see the first set of results from your history and bookmarks, but below will be live search results from Google.

CyberSearch Screenshot

CyberSearch Screenshot

The other way the extension can be used is through keywords. When using keywords, the extension will search Google, other Google products, or search Google but limit it to a specific domain.

For example, starting your entry with ‘goog’ will search just Google and hide any results from your history or bookmarks. Or start with ‘wiki’ and the extension searches just pages from en.wikipedia.org. You can set up multiple keywords that can even search multiple domains.

You can also page through results by adding a number on the end of your query (’goog bill clinton #2′ shows the 2nd page of results, ‘goog bill clinton #3′ shows the third, etc)

Check out their video demonstration:

[from Google System]