The Bloomberg app for the iPhone 3G is much nicer and has more functionality than I expected. Thumbs up for this app.
Author: todd
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Staying Away from Windows Live for Windows Mobile
There is no way I am going to install the just released…
Just Released: Windows Live for Windows Mobile
Why? The first listed so-called feature: Synchronize Live contacts with your contacts on the device. My Hotmail/Live Mail contacts list is a mish-mash of MSN (Live) Messenger contacts and other contributors I can’t remember. I do not want it accidentally polluting my less than pristine but still useful contacts list on my WiMo smartphone that has been maintained in various forms for nearly 20 years (starting with the MS-DOS based HP 95LX). And, looking at the rest of the feature list…
# Synchronize your Live email (msn, hotmail, live)
# View graphics, web links and contact photos in emails
# Respond to emails with voice recordings
# Upload photos to your Windows Live Spaces…I don’t see anything particularly compelling to me.
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USA Today for iPhone
Yet another major website created a site optimized for the iPhone. This time it is USA Today at…
iphone.usatoday.com
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Testing WordPress for iPhone
WordPress for iPhone works great. Wish typing was easier and faster on my iPod touch.
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Evernote Monthly Usage Limit
I haven’t been using Evernote heavily for the past few weeks. However, I updated the Windows Mobile client on my TyTn this evening and noticed the Menu – Account Usage item and clicked on it. You can see from the screen cap above that there is a 40MB per month bandwidth limit. This is probably pretty reasonable for a free service. But, you may want to keep it in mind if you start using Evernote with audio of visual media (which would increase bandwidth requirements). -
iPhone 3G/iPod touch Scientific Calculator
Sigh, here’s another example of Apple showing Microsoft “how to do it right.” The new iPhone 3G (and updated iPhone and iPod touch) got an enhancement to the original simple 4 function calculator. If you hold the iPhone/iPod touch in portrait mode, you see the simple calculator.
However, if you turn it to landscape orientation, you see the new scientific calculator.
Meanwhile, the calculator on Windows Mobile Pocket PCs has not changed since 1996 (see below).
The freeware version of Calc98 looks ok in portrait mode (see below). However, it does not rescale for landscape view. Apparently, the for-fee version does this correctly. Microsoft should just buy the rights to Calc98 and use it to replace the outdated calculator in Windows Mobile.
