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Jott.com provides an interesting service for iPhone (or any mobile) phone users. The free service allows you to dictate short messages to yourself or to others over your mobile phone. The intent is to provide a way for people "on the go" to send themselves and others short text messages just by using your voice. A toll free number is provided which identifies you based on your mobile phone ...

Jiwire.com now offers an iPhone optimized version that allows you to search for Free Wifi hotspots around the world. Jiwire claims to have a database of over 150,000 Wifi locations in 135 countries. You can visit iphone.jiwire.com from your iPhone or from your desktop browser to test out their service. You can limit search to Free Wifi hotspots...

Blendtec asks... Will the iPhone Blend?...

iPhoneTypingTest.com provides you with a simple way to test how fast you can type on your iPhone keyboard. Tapping the text entry field gives you a phrase to type. Pressing "Done" on your iPhone keyboard completes the test and gives you your words per minute...

If you're looking for a more technical review of the iphone, Arstechnica posted their extensive iPhone review along with their own stress testing. It's hard to provide an all encompassing summary blurb but they leave the reader with these pros and cons: Pros: Web surfing experience is superior to other phones Overall SMS experience is great Practically non-scratchable Looks...

BeeJive.com has released their web based instant messanging client for the iPhone at iphone.beejive.com. JiveTalk for iPhone is currently available to the public as an open alpha, and free to use. Because this is an alpha release, you may experience some problems/defects. Please report these to support@beejive.com. Thank you for choosing JiveTalk! Overall expereience with the iPhone designed...

Web developer Joe Hewitt and team posted an alpha version of Tilt -- an rudimentary iPhone game that takes advantage of the iPhone position sensor. The is simple, but does provide an example of how to detect the iPhone's position. Andrew Mager describes the game: This was my favorite game presented at the hack-a-thon. Javascript afficianado Joe Hewitt, along with help from Nicole Lazzaro,...

Photo by Adam Tow The first iPhoneDevCamp concluded this weekend. The keynote presentation has been posted (PDF) which summarizes all known information about iPhone web development. A flickr photo set shows more photos from the event and a list of apps from the event is provided. The application list is of variable quality, but a few stand out: iPhogo - Mobile photography made...

Per Robert Scoble, Silveroffice, Inc. launched a word processor application for the iPhone at gOffice.com (iPhone Link). The web-based application allows you to type into a text field which you can save to a Word document and send it to yourself or to others. The application offers some addition features, including special headers, text templates, a cursive signature font and live previews....

Those of you still following Apple's Retail guide to iPhone availability may want to know how the retail store algorithm works. At 9 p.m. every night (local time), the inventory is checked at each Apple Store. Those with less than 10 8GB iPhones are considered to be "out of stock" for the following morning. Therefore, the tool tells us nothing about the status of 4GB iPhones at the Apple...

One current limitation of the iPhone is an inability to download and store documents. If you have the time and ability, storing PDFs onto a web page will provide you with the best iPhone viewing opportunity, but you will have to be internet connected to be able to view them.One tip to actually store documents (PDF, Word, Excel) locally comes from dharrison9 on our forums. He noticed that...

Jeff Grossman (Jeffrey903), author of GasApp for the iPhone, has released a new iPhone specific application called MoviesApp at http://moviesapp.com MoviesApp allows you to search for movies in your ZipCode and provides basic movie information, including Length, Genre, Rating and Showtimes. Jeff added a few iPhone specific features which make it much more useful, however. This includes...

While the iPhone's Safari will read basic RSS feeds, the lack of a RSS feed organizer makes it a difficult tool to use. Fortunately, Google's Reader service is optimized for the iPhone (and other mobile devices). Visiting the standard url http://www.google.com/reader/ from your iPhone will take you to the mobile version of the site. If you don't...

Telekinesis is an early version of a Mac OS X application that allows you to interact with your Mac from your iPhone: Stream music and videos from your computer (0.9.8) Screen capture with mouse click and basic typing support Simple iTunes Remote control Browse your files Run applescript remotely iSight image capture The software is still in a very early version (alpha) and there ...

The Trillian team has been working on an iPhone version of Trillian: Currently the contact list and message windows are up and running. You can see the status of your contacts they update. You can send and receive messages in real-time, as long as your browser window is open. There is no need to move Windows (what a backward concept! ) around on the phone, as everything is compact and fit...

The only place I really have time to listen to my iPod is in the car. I live in Houston, and driving is a pretty huge part of life: I live about 12 miles from work and about 20 from the University of Houston, where I attend classes. The mass transit in this city leaves much to be desired, too. Im in the car for about an hour a day, about 2 hours if I get let off work during rush hour! To...

Are there any problems with the iPhone that we girls may face that the average male wouldnt? Do long fingernails, for example, interfere with the use of the iPhone's touch interface in any way? Lets find out. I've been texting on the iPhone like mad ever since I got it. Texting is the easiest way to get in touch with most of my friends, so if it didnt work well with long fingernails, my nails ...

One criticism about the iPhone is the lack of a dedicated iChat/AIM client. Some have tried to use Web 2.0 Instant Messaging applications such as Meebo with mixed results. Forum user dontwalkhand provides an interesting tip that allows you to actually log into AIM over SMS and send and receive messages as if you are logged in. This means that you appear on your friend's buddy lists as logged ...