Andy’s iPhone Blog

I recently visited my local Apple Store to purchase a case for my iPhone. I had used a leather “hip holster” in the past for my Treo but was not happy with the life of the case due to the belt clip pulling off, over time. My daughter has a Contour iSee case for her iPod and it has served her well. The new iSee case for iPhone has the clear plastic case for the phone and a snap-in holster for wearing on the belt. I thought this combination would work well for me so I purchased one. Alas, it is not the perfect case I hoped it would be. (more…)

Bookmarklets are bookmarks that encapsulate Javascript code. The code runs in the browser and can provide cool functionality. Examples are: searching the current web page (with highlighting), translation using Google or Babel Fish, viewing page source (HTML, CSS, etc.), dictionary lookup, links and/or images listing or even launching a blog editor.

Go to iPhoneAtlas to find instructions on adding a bookmarklet for searching a web page on iPhone - very useful! Other sources are: Andy Budd, Smashing Magazine and LifeClever (iPhone tested).

The nice people at Content.Robot have come up with iWPhone, a WordPress Plugin and Theme that automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone. It detects the iPhone’s User Agent and serves up the content with the special theme only to iPhone visitors, all other browsers will view your WordPress blog with your current theme. This blog takes advantage of this tool - as you can see if you are browsing this on an iPhone

iPhone Atlas bills itself as “A resource for Apple’s iPhone, containing guides to usage, troubleshooting information, pertinent news and more”. The site is produced by TechTracker Inc. - who also manage VersionTracker and MacFixIt. I have found the site to be informative and useful.  It is published using WordPress, the personal publishing platform, as is this site

Joe Hewitt, known for his work on Fiefox and FireBug, has create a way-cool framework for developing iPhone web applications. It uses Javascript and CSS in an “invisible” manner to allow folks to create sophisticated apps using HTML. Using this tool creates web apps that mimic the iPhone interface. You can create side-scrolling navigation, modal dialogs, preference panels, and on/off switches. I use this toolkit at www.4-iphone.com. You can find Joe’s blog and info about iUI at JoeHewitt.com.