Want handwriting recognition on your iPhone? Now you can scribble to your hearts content with new software known as HWPen.
HWPen can be downloaded from Installer.app - then you click source > edit > add new source http://iphonecake.com/src/new Refresh your sources and you will now have iPhoneCake and HWPen packages. Install the software and restart your iPhone. Following installation you should have a new writing area appear making the standard keyboard history at the touch of a button.
Though still in 1.0 Beta version the new Apple iPhone app has ‘keeper’ written all over it.
While there have been some forays into VoIP on iPhone, Fring is the first real VoIP solution that’s likely to catch users imaginations.
If you have a Jailbroken Apple iPhone ( if not you can follow steps here) and WiFi access you can use Fring to call regular phones using Skypeout or SIP or chat with Skype, Google, ICQ, MSN, Twitter, AIM, and Yahoo contacts.
To get the free Fring download click here. If you’re not sold - check out the video.
Having trouble keeping track of all your passwords, entry codes and usernames? MobileKnox promises to change that with its java-based password keeper.
Designed to run on nearly all Java-enabled cellphone and PDA the easy to install application is a godsend for the absent minded.
You can synchronize MobileKnox to your desktop and use one master password to create, edit and delete existing password entries.
Featuring super safe AES encryption with 256 Bit keys, secure random password generator and many ways for data-synchronization (Bluetooth, IRDA, cable, memory card, internet) this may just be our one-stop password solution.
Micro-blogging obsessives that we are it’s still nearly impossible to stay updated via your mobile with who/what/when/where of you friends – but these tools make it all that little bit less overwhelming.
One suspects a developer or two lent the CEO their thoughts as he took a more moderate tone today as to prospects of the client saying “…to bring the full capabilities of Flash to the iPhone Web-browsing experience we do need to work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK and the current license around it.”
Will Apple give Adobe an access all areas pass? Will Adobe’s task prove too great? We love Flash, we love the iPhone but will the twain ever meet?
Word yesterday that Microsoft had bitten the bullet and paid licensing to have Flash available on Windows Mobile has been trumpted today by news the animation software will be coming to the iPhone.
Following comments by Steve Jobs that current versions of Adobe’s Flash software are unworkable on the iPhone Adobe’s Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen has confirmed the upcoming availability of a Flash Player for the iPhone.
In recent comments the Adobe head said “We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone.” He went on to say “We have evaluated [the SDK] and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves.”
Jobs suggestion that “the cellphone version of Flash isn’t functional enough,” and “there’s this missing product in the middle [for the iPhone]” will see his words reach fruition with the planned release to be available through the iTunes App Store.
Sony Ericsson and Motorola’s (read Z8 and Z10) professional users will be grateful to learn today that Quickoffice Premier 4.0 for Symbian UIQ 3 devices will allow these smartphone users to easily edit Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on their devices.
The newer version has improved usability and performance and allows enhanced editing capability, support for complex spreadsheet formulas and new, advanced editing capabilities. Users can now enjoy more control over formatting, graphics and text when revising documents on their UIQ smartphones.
So now there’s no excuse for not doing your homework. For more info visit here.
We’ve all been there - party is emptying out, Phil Collins is playing and then the call comes out: “is there a DJ in the house?” Cower in the shadows no longer my friends, for as of right now, you and your iPhone have houseparty rocking potential.
Mixmeister lets you scra-scra-src-scratch-atch to your hearts content, beat juggle and get funky fresh and ready to party with this free app.
I know what your thinking - your thinking Ibiza, your thinking Mykonos, your thinking Ko PhaNgan but lets not forget ourselves friends, this kit requires some actual skills.
Taking advantage of the capacitive touchscreen you can even load Mixmeister while your favorite tunes are playing and scratch on top. So come on y’all, fight for your right!
Virtual DJ stardom awaits via registration here. Until then enjoy the video demo.
With every other phone seemingly pitching itself as a PocketPC or mobile computer its easy to forget that somethings are just much easier on a PC. That’s the philosophy that brings you Dashwire, a free app that automatically mirrors content on your phone.
If you have ever battled with the QWERTY keyboard on a Blackberry or the small display on a Samsung you will appreciate the extra screen space, full keyboard and enhanced functionality of a PC. It’s easy to share Dashwire’s enthusiasm for the old desktop.
With their Windows mobile freeware you can send and receive text messages without touching your phone, automatically upload photos/video from your phone and share with friends, quickly update and manage my internet bookmarks/favorites and add contacts via your PC that will instantly appear on your phone.
Sounds great huh? Another point in their favor is that being Web 2.0 they can make updates and add features at any time. Check out the video tour.
Everyone wants it, and thank to iCopy now they can have it. Preston Monroe has released freeware that allows you to copy and paste on your iPhone.
Though only functioning on Safari, iCopy uses a javascript bookmarklet that lets you copy and paste text and URLs between windows or even email URLs and text.
Essentially you save a bookmark to iCopy, then with the aid of instructions on their website, then edit it, and from thence forth you can call up the bookmark and perform one tap copy and paste.
If you’re a little confused or ready to get down and dirty with Apple iPhone email spam you can download the freeware here and in the meantime enjoy the video.
