iPhone TIPS: Wikitude Compass traces in iPhone 3.0 SDK?

Q: What is the main reason to buy the iPhone? A: Many people buy the iPhone for its fantastic user interface, the easiness to use the applications. The 25000+ applications to choose from. Many reasons. One of my main reasons to choose the iPhone was the tight integration of the hardware with Mac OS X. My favorite Operating system running on a mobile device. Built-in that magic package, I found the accelerometer, the multi touch screen, the phone with Edge and later 3G HSDPA in the 3G version. Also a GPS. Superb integration of the Google Maps gadget. I was amazed! Then the SDK came out last summer, more gadgets iFart, Fring Nimbuzz for the IM integration and Voice over 3G. With or without Jailbreak. Twitter clients every where. I was amazed again all those gadgets, most of them are even userful! Can you imagine?
However, last week a colleague showed me his Android based Google G1 Gphone. I could NOT imagine I would see something "new"on "that" phone which was not on my iPhone. But the result was interesting and I was even amazed!
I noticed that there was "one more thing" the G1 has and the iPhone 3G does NOT. It was a hardware component better known as a "compass" (or magnetometer or digital compass). When you point your G1 Gphone to some direction, eg. to South, the compass can tell you exactly the direction, even when you stand still! Combined with GPS, its shows you from "where" you pointing your Gphone to the South, while standing still. And that opens the oppertunity for developing even more amazing location based gadgets: He showed me the Android app called WikiTude. In the next video the developer of Wikitude shows how it works: you see the "real world" through your Gphone camera and Wikitude will add textual information to the objects you are looking at. Real amazing watch:
This technology has the name Augmented Reality. Kind of Web 2.0, SOA term;) I hope the next generation iPhone will have this Compass on board. Let's hope Apple can do that again and bringings the same Mac OS X platform with even more cool "location and direction based" gadgets. Meanwhile I can look for traces of evidence in the new iPhone SDK 3.0 beta. You never know what is in the iPhone 4G.

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Augmented what Reality ?magnetometer? digital compass?: An good example is the stream below. It shows additional objects in the real world seen through the lens of the iPhone camera: A dog!

iPhone TIPS: 1st USA Today NY Times now Wall Street Journal Free App

"Newspapers in iPhone App form" are just great! Months ago I installed the USA Today app [App Store link] and the New York Times app[App Store link]. Q: Why am I installing these apps? A: Because I want to keep track of the daily news. The funny thing is that both apps mentioned above has made it to my Home screen! Of course the Bloomberg app [App Store link] is there too so I could keep track of the stock exchanges in near realtime. Q: Why it has made it to my home screen? A: Actually, just to verify things what I read on Twitter! Tweetie [App Store link] has even made it to my launch bar! With my Tweetie app, I can lookup Trends and find out what is happening right now in the world and follow eyewitnesses tweets. Several minutes later I can choose to check my favorite newspaper apps for verified and indepth information, or just follow the highlights of that breaking news.
Today we have an addition in the App Store from the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal iPhone App [App Store link] is free and available now. I was happy to find out that its contents are available for free, same as the NY Times and USA Today by the way. First we have the text articles in company with one photo shot. But the great thing is it provides other sort content including WSJ radio and WSJ video. Text articles can be emailed right from the article. The radio audio and video segments started smoothly on WiFi. I haven't tried this on 3G yet. Please comment on this post of your findings regarding app performance. I am happy with this WSJ app and we will see if it earns a spot on my homescreen. One more thing: The format of the Advertisement banner at the bottom is annoying. See the red Oracle banner in the screen shot. I often hit the banner when I tap a button (:
For more user reviews, please follow this links:

• Wall Street Journal FREE [App Store link]
• USA Today app FREE [App Store link]
• New York Times app FREE [App Store link]
• Bloomberg app FREE [App Store link]
• Tweetie app $2,99 [App Store link] articles 1, 2

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iPhone TIPS: Calculate Photo To Check If You Are Beautiful

Q: What is Beauty ? [App Store Link $1,99] A: This app computes the beauty factor of your friends in a scale from 0 to 100. Q: What is the criteria of the beauty factor? A: It measures how proportional and symmetric your or your friends face is. According to the app description, this factor is directly proportional to the beauty of the individual. Of course you are the only one who can judge for yourself if someone is beautiful or not:) Q: How does it work? A: Very simple: To compute the Beauty Factor, select or take a new photo of a frontal face, the eyes, nose and mouth should be visible. After selecting the image click on the Action! button and the process will start.
Quote:

"The Beauty Factor is not a scientific or proven method to determine the beauty of a subject, it's only a guide and only should be used as an entertainment tool."

So please have fun, but don't make your friend angry about the beauty factor, it is just an iPhone app:)
For more information, please follow this App Store Link
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iPhone TIPS: Free 9-button alphabet Phone Dialer

Q: What does it do? A: iSmart Dialer [App Store link] allows you to quickly find and dial a phone number using the numeric keypad. Q: How does it exactly work? A: The 9 buttons on the keypad holds all letters from the alphabet. If you want to dial Pat's number, just type 728 and you found it. Very fast!.

Description:
In celebration of our new release, FREE for a limited time! Since the release of the iPhone everyone's been looking for a fast and cool way to find a contact. Now available a professional Smart Dialer to the iPhone loads with easy to use features.
No scrolling through contacts! No searching contacts with a QWERTY keyboard! FINALLY No need to move to any other screen for contacts related information or feature.

iSmart Dialer allows you to Call, SMS or E-mail rapidly to any of your contacts by searching for their name using only the 9-buttons numeric keypad.
Each keypad search for all the letters assigned to it.
For example: Press 563 for Joe or 62529 for McKay, but you will usually find the contact you are looking for by entering only the first letters (digits).

Why iSmart Dialer?.
• Use the familiar and large 9-buttons only numeric keypad. Why use small keys and make calling or SMS/Email sending more difficult?
• Smart Logic that includes favorites, recently dialed and the new Speed Dial contacts.
In order to keep your number of keypad taps to a minimum.
• Advanced Setting screen with many easy to use configurations, which you will just love.
• The ONLY with Multi-Language support (see supported below).
• Quick loading. Start searching/dialing with iSmart Dialer immediately!

Features:
• Shake or Tilt your iPhone to turn on/off search mode fast (or just hold # for 2 seconds).
• Auto-Off search mode when you dialing a number.
• Find contacts by first, last or company name while only using the numeric keypad.
• The familiar phone number display turns into search results screen.
• Smart logic search that shows first the recent, favorites and Speed Dialed.
• 3 Types of search results sizes: 1, 2 or 3 per screen.
• Up and Down arrow keys to scroll through the search results (choose large or small).
• Tap on the search results screen for an easy "Finger Scrolling".
• Press for 2 seconds on a search result for contact information and editing.
• Don't just use the dialer for Calling! Send SMS/Email to any contact.
• Auto-Complete when you dialing a number.
• Multi language support: Unlimited number of languages for simultaneously searching and up to 2 languages to be printed on the keypad.
• Speed Dial: Assign 'Speed Dial-Favorites' to keys 1-9.
• Hold one of the keypads for 2 seconds to assign a contact/number to it or, after the assignment, to speed dial the contact.
• Enable/Disable Keypad Vibrate and Sounds.
• Instant Search: even if you have more than 1000 contacts.
• And much more….

HOW TO SEARCH:
Turn on the search mode showing on the # keypad (it should be already on when the application loads).
Spell your contact's first, last or company name with the large 9-buttons only keypad.
Smart spelling: To spell 'L', there is NO NEED to press 5 three times, one press is enough.
Use the up and down arrow keys to scroll though the search results and to highlight the contact you want. Or by pressing the search results for a "Finger Scrolling".
After you reached the contact you want, press the Call phone or Send SMS/Email buttons.

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FAQ:
The only 3 features of Apple's build-in Dialer that are not available on iSmart Dialer App are dialing to numbers starting with *or #, voicemail and displaying incoming/missed calls.
These features are currently not permitted by Apple's SDK, and cannot be added to iSmart Dialer.

Supported Search Languages:
English, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German,
Greek , Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

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