The Weather Channel(R) Interactive (TWCI) today announced the launch of a completely optimized weather application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The new application requires no download and leverages Apple’s innovative touch screen technology to deliver current conditions, hourly and 10-day forecasts, and maps in a fully interactive environment where functionality like sliding pages and “fade ins” make the user experience fun and unique. The application is available to iPhone and iPod touch users via Safari browser at http://www.weather.com/iphone, and, along with 200 other leading solutions, can also be accessed via Apple’s new Web Application site at http://www.apple.com/webapps/

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Ecamm Networks’ iPhoneDrive lets you store files, access music, videos, and photos on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Ecamm Network has announced the release of iPhoneDrive 1.2, an updated version of their software which lets the iPhone and iPod touch be used like a disk for portable storage. It’s a free update for registered users and costs $9.95.

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A remote control
Control more than 95 applications, system parameters and Remote Buddy itself - just like with any other supported remote.

A presenter trackpad - touch your presentations!
Touch the live updating mini version of your desktop to reposition your mouse cursor on screen. Access multiple screens, toggle Mousespot, perform mouse clicks or navigate your presentation.

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There are rumors going around the web that the totally irrelevant release of Leopard might also give way to the iPhone being opened up to 3rd-party developers for new applications. Apparently, Apple will not fully open its iPhone platform to all the developers, but at least initially, to the major software companies.

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Etelos announces a new way for people to access their Customer Relationship Management System - through their iPhone.

“Etelos CRM works great on the iPhone” Etelos CEO Danny Kolke said. “It allows you to get access to your tasks, projects, appointments or any of your other business processes while you’re away from the office. It’s almost as good as carrying a laptop.”

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iPhone Nova offers an iPhone download service that is formally the reality’s best and fastest iPhone downloads on the internet. By joining, you go limitless approach with no restrictions to available movies, music, tv shows, games, software and much. 24 hours a day! There are no monthly or “repay per download” fees and the software is simple to establish & consumption. The movies & music are digital character and there is a big media choice.

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Apple on Thursday released the much anticipated software update for the iPhone. In addition to the iTunes Wi-Fi Store, the update also adds several new features to the iPhone.

New for the iPhone with software update 1.1.1 is loud speaker and receiver volume and much more.

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iPhone users involved in heading-up creative graphics and design businesses can now control many of their business systems using their choice of mobile device.

Project management and ad agency groupware, Creative Manager Pro, has been updated to version 8.4.4. This latest version is optimized for the iPhone, iPod touch and is ready for Mac OS X 10.5.

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Oliver Starr, a friend who is now offering his considerable expertise to Blognation, writes that he has witnessed the first ever VoIP calls made from an Apple iPhone.

This has been accomplished by TruPhone, a softphone VoIP solutions provider based in the UK.

Not even ready for beta, what I have just referenced is a rather pre-alpha cross-your-fingers-and-hope-it-works setup that, Starr writes in part:

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Mark/Space has announced The Missing Sync for iPhone, a new synchronization tool for iPhone users. It’s coming in the fourth calendar quarter of 2007 for $39.95.

The latest installment of Mark/Space’s The Missing Sync family of sync products, The Missing Sync for iPhone provides users with the ability to migrate data like contacts, tasks, events and photos from Palm OS, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry smartphones.

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When the iPhone was released, one of the main complaints was the lack of a fully functional chat client, since Apple chose to release only the SMS program. Then came Apollo and added a client to AIM. That was very frustrating for me, because nobody uses that in my circle of friends, so I couldn’t use my iPhone to talk using instant messaging.

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The plethora of 3rd Applications on the iPhone and the wee bit of space left on the homescreen leaves a lot to be desired and I mean a lot. Fortunately for you, your fix of 3rd party App goodness won’t be stopped any time soon and these App launchers will allow you to splurge to your heart’s content

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Elgato’s EyeTV software lets users watch, record and schedule TV on their Macs, as well as transfer recordings to the iPod. I’ve got an EyeTV Hybrid connected to my G4 iMac and it works wonderfully, despite the older processor and modest video card (64 MB DDR RAM). Our own Mike Rose wrote a thorough review in March which you can read here.

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With dozens of electronic health record outfits struggling for market share, you need a gimmick to get attention.

Life Record has just such a gimmick. Put your health records on your iPhone.

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MacApper’s Jordan Golson received a very peculiar text message from AT&T on his iPhone. The message read:

AT&T FREE Msg: Good News, your messaging package now includes text, picture & instant messages all for the same price of $19.99 per month. No action required

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This is the first blog post in a series that I plan on writing about iPhone application development. The first thing you should know is that these blog posts will not cover anything related to taking existing content sites and making them more “iPhone-friendly”. While I think that is a valuable topic, it has little interest to me as a programmer.

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ConvenienceWare and AssistiveWare on Tuesday released GhostReader (formerly TextParrot) 1.1.1, an update to their text to speech software for Mac OS X. A free update for registered users, GhostReader costs $39.95 to register.

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This is very fun, it’s an iPhone smudge and scratch simulator! It even has a cute little cleaning cloth to wipe the fingerprints away. Given the way most consumer-electronics smudge up, someone really needs to come up with a smudge-resistant surface. C’mon nanotechnology, where are you now ‘eh?!

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Mac developers are trying to make an end-run around Apple, and some estimate that there are more than 100 iPhone applications available today that run directly on the OS.

Despite discouragement from Apple, some Mac developers are determined to make it possible to easily install and run non-Apple-approved iPhone applications that communicate directly with the smart phone’s operating system.

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Although it’s a super- early beta and doesn’t really work all that well, this iSaber app actually turns your iPhone into a lightsaber. The developer, who made the MacSaber and the WiiSaber, has tapped into the iPhone’s accelerometer and designed the app to have your phone make lightsaber noises when you swing it around like a nerdy Canadian

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People are clamoring on the iPhone buzz to get developers using their products for iPhone development.

Two early IDE folk are Morfik and Aptana:

Aptana iPhone Support

We’ve released the first beta of our iPhone Development Plugin for the Aptana IDE. Since ‘Web 2.0’ is the development model of choice for the iPhone, and that is what the Aptana IDE is all about, it made sense that we’d support it in every way we could. For this first beta, here are the features we have (and some that are coming):

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Six Apart, the world’s leading independent blogging services and software company, today announced the release of a mobile version of the award-winning TypePad blogging application customized for the Apple iPhone.
The TypePad iPhone application was designed from the ground up to be optimized for Apple’s innovative multi-touch iPhone display.

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Apple has released an update to iTunes that blocks users from creating free custom ringtones and then syncing them to an iPhone. Despite Apple’s best efforts to thwart users, a workaround has already been found and posted to the Internet.

A method of using iTunes to create ringtones for the iPhone using songs not purchased from the iTunes Store was first posted by Macrumors.com on Friday. Users confirmed after installing iTunes 7.4.1 last night that the method no longer worked.

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The Nullriver iPhone Installer application is an ingenious piece of coding. It basically allows you to modify your iPhone and add different applications natively on the iPhone’s filesystem - forget those web-apps.

But, what do we do about the limited iPhone homescreen real estate?

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A Rochester, N.Y.-based solution provider and software developer has built a proof-of-concept iPhone portal page that would allow Web-based printing, workflow and document management over the Apple device, through a Web page that is built to carry the same look and feel as Apple’s phone-and-Internet device.
Rochester Software Associates, which has partnerships with document companies including Xerox, Canon, Konica Minolta and others, said Friday that it will display the technology during an upcoming conference in Chicago.

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