iPhone

First Look At Google Mobile App For iPhone: Great But Not Second Coming

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Well, it happened. Google’s voice recognition mobile app finally arrived today on the iPhone App Store. Until today all we had to go by was the demo video that Google created showing it in action.

CSS-VFX: CSS Visual Effects Tutorials and Components

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We've talked a bit about Apple's extensions to HTML and CSS; <canvas> has of course gone on to much fame and fortune. Charles Ying pointed us to his CSS-VFX project which aims to be

a collection of components and code examples that illustrate the power of CSS Visual Effects. So far, only 1 gem that illustrates a popular RIA user interface demo, "Cover Flow" is currently available. If you'd like to see more, please don't hesitate to suggest something you'd like to see.

TouchType Makes iPhone Email Better With Landscape Mode

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For whatever reason, Apple decided not to allow “landscape mode” on iPhone email. If you want to turn the phone when the web browser is open and get the larger keyboard that makes two thumb typing realistic, no problem. But the email app is portrait only.

SGN’s Wii-like Golf And Bowling Games Both Top Ten iPhone Apps

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No surprise that SGN’s iPhone games are doing so well - they’re fun to play and they’re free. iGolf is at no. 7 on the top ten apps list and has, the company says, more than 1 million downloads. The newly launched iBowl is at no. 8.

iPhone Web Apps running at full screen

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I am so happy that the NDA mess is over! Clancy has written about how you can have your iPhone Web app run in full screen and has a demo app that shows it off:

iPhone Safari 3D Navigation Menu

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Ben Putman has put together a nice iPhone Safari 3D navigation menu example that shows off the transforms and events available on the latest mobile Safari.

Ben told us:

SVG working on the iPhone

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Dylan Schiemann wrote about how disappointing it was that the iPhone didn’t support SVG:

iPhone Web App: Spin the Bottle

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Tomi Mickelsson has created a fun iPhone Web App called Spin the Bottle. You know, a Web app, not one that has to get into the Apple store.

You can check it out on the iPhone/Touch/emulator and you will see how Tomi uses the iPhone specific APIs, such as:

Great Review Site For iPhone Apps

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I came across AppVee this evening, a new site that is creating written and video reviews of iPhone apps.

Squirreling out the Fish on the iPhone

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