New York, Tony Karakashian // Sept 12, 2009.

It was just about a year ago that I got my iPhone. I remember all too well the joy of fiddling around with everything and trying out all of the features. As an engineer, I almost never read manuals. While it’s fun to figure out how to use something on its own, it’s also nice sometimes to have it all spelled out for you. Apple’s got a great howto site that gives you instructions on how to use every feature of your spiffy bit of high technology. 

If you’re a new iPhone owner, or if you’ve had yours for a while, this is a great resource. Even people like me who think they’ve seen it all will find new things.

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We’ll admit it: we’re obsessed with iPhone apps created by magazines. And we don’t even have an iPhone! (Blackberry all the way.)

Today, we learned of two new magazines entering the market with new apps. Seventeen magazine’s Fashion Finder app is the first for a Hearst title, offering its readers the ability to locate clothing and accessories featured in the magazine in stories near them.

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Even though Apple prevented it from listing Google Voice on the iPhone App Store, Google is planning on retooling the application as a Web-based app, according to The New York Times.

In David Pogue’s Friday column regarding the ongoing saga of Apple and Google Voice, he reveals that Google has already found a loophole:

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Google has optimized its Google Latitude for the Safari browser in iPhone and iPod touch. Google Latitude is a web application and requires iPhone OS 3.0 as the mobile Safari browser in this version of iPhone OS can feed back the device’s location to web application.

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Webkit is the display engine created by Apple to render pages in Safari on OS X and the iPhone. Like Firefox, it has a series of specific CSS properties you can use to design pages for Mac or iPhone. Unfortunately, though, there isn’t much documentation on the web about Webkit. So, here’s a list of six Webkit properties you can use for your next iPhone or Mac website. Remember, these don’t work on any other browser, so I wouldn’t recommend using them for a PC-oriented website without CSS hacks or IE fallbacks.

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The New Yorker on your iPhone? There’s not an app for that (yet). Rather, the venerated weekly magazine recently unveiled an iPhone-optimized Web site, making stories, blogs, and podcasts available free of charge.

Specifically, when you head to iphone.newyorker.com on an iPhone or iPod Touch, you’ll see the top five stories (updated twice daily) along with links to various other content.

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Get everything you wanted to know about the best-selling 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid in the palm of your hand.  Toyota has just launched a mobile phone website for your iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm, or other mobile phone device and browser.

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Google has been once again revamped its iGoogle start page for easier use on iPhone and Android handsets. It lets you see and interact with your gadgets in a similar fashion to the desktop version, by making use of tabs and displaying content that runs in iFrames. The previous version, which was mysteriously discontinued by Google in late January, simply put everything into one, large vertical stream, and required you to go back and forth to get at different sets of widgets.

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Optimum Online — part of Cablevision (NYSE: CVC)—today announced the launch of the iPhone version of its consumer web portal, Optimum.net. Optimum.net is also available on other Web-enabled mobile devices. The service, powered by Usablenet, offers Cablevision’s 2.5 million customers access to their Optimum e-mail, personalized traffic information powered by News 12, local weather, and iO TV listings, all in a clean and functional user interface designed specifically for handheld devices.

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http://www.vw.com has just released their own iPhone optimized site. When you surf to the site with your iPhone you will be directed to http://www.vw.com/mobile/iphone/. The site is simple and clean. You have the option of viewing all their car offerings, with special galleries, specification and prices.

Furthermore the site has a searchable database of VW dealers in the US as well as assistance information for emergencies on the road with your VW car.