I spoke with Nokia’s Ira Frimere (Portfolio Manager for North America) and Joseph Gallo (Communications Specialist) about Nokia smartphones (what else?) in this podcast. ZDNet/NokiaExpert.com’s Matt Miller was scheduled to join us but was unable to because of technical issues.
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Podcast 23: Hotspot Shield – Free Ad-supported VPN – A Conversation with AnchorFree’s CEO
I spoke with AnchorFree CEO and Co-Founder David Gorodyansky about the firm’s free ad-support Virtual Private Network (service)…
Clients software for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X are provided free to use with their VPN service. The service also works with an iPhone without requiring any software installation. The iPhone’s native VPN can be configured to work with the service.
I was very skeptical of the service before speaking with David. But, I developed a level of comfort after speaking with him and am running their software and using their service on my Asus Eee PC 1000HA netbook running Windows 7 Beta.
I’ll provide more details about some of the things I learned about the service over on my MobileContentToday blog on Monday morning.
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Podcast 22: Oceanit Laboratories iPhone App Development Journey
Oceanit Laboratories is a Honolulu=based science and engineering firm whose projects have names like Underground Storage Tank Removal, Fugitive Dust Monitoring and Hurricane Tower Desalination System. So, how did they end up creating a free iPhone entertainment app named…
iFu Kung Fu (iTunes App Store)
The story is the focus of this podcast. It may be instructive to potential iPhone app developers as well firms not currently involved in iPhone app development who may want to test the waters.
You can find more information about the app itself at…
iFu Kung Fu product information page
…and don’t forget to read its disclaimer…
iFu Kung Fu disclaimer: This app is not useful for anything. It’s not fit for any purpose other than entertainment and for your amusement. We not liable if you smack into someone or something or drop your iPhone so don’t blame us
Note: I asked Oceanit’s David Takeyama and Todd Blume to participate in a podcast recording experiment. I asked both of them to speak with me on Skype using the new iPhone Skype app. While the audio quality is less than ideal, I think I learned a lot about what to ask people who call using Skype for iPhone in the future. I discuss these lessons learned in a future blog item.
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Podcast Conversation with Joel Comm of iFart Mobile Fame
Podcasts prior to March 20, 2009 had their information archived on MobileAppsToday.com. However, when it and MobileDevicesToday.com were closed and redirected to MobileContentToday.com (where I still contribute daily blog posts), the podcast archive was lost. So, I’m reposting pre-March 20 podcasts here to help people rediscover a number of really interesting podcasts.
This one was recorded on January 16, 2009 with Joel Comm. Joel is the producer of the iFart Mobile app for the iPhone that hit #1 in the Apple iTunes paid app list during the 2008 holiday season and remained there for 22 days.
If you prefer, you can retrieve this podcast from iTunes by subscribing to the MobileViews.com Podcast there and checking off the box associated with this podcast.
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Podcast 21: Conversation with Derrick Story, Pro Photog and Author, About iPhone Photo Apps
The Internet is a wonderful thing. It gave me the opportunity to work with professional photographer and author Derrick Story for the past 7 years or so even though we have never met in person. Derrick was an editor at O’Reilly Media for much of that time. And, it was he who gave me the opportunity to write a bit for O’Reilly Media. He knew about my fascination with cameraphones even back then. And, I was thrilled when he asked me to write a handful of cameraphone hacks to his book…
I remain fascinated with cameraphone in general until today. So, I asked Derrick to speak with me specifically about the iPhone and its photo capabilities for this podcast. Derrick provides some great information about using everything from the high-end (and expensive) Adobe PhotoShop CS4 to free and low-cost (99 cents to a few dollars) iPhone photo-related apps.
You can find Derrick’s own blog at…
…where he often mixes in iPhone related photo information with other digital photography info. If you found this podcast interesting, you definitely want to check out Derrick’s own podcast. And, in particular, download the podcast he produced on March 17, 2009. He provides a lot of detailed iPhone photo advice in that particular podcast too.
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Mini-Podcast 7: Skype 1.0.1 for iPhone Sound Check
Skype finally released their iPhone app…
The free app allows free Skype-to-Skype calls like other clients. Note that you can only make voice calls when using it over a WiFi network connection. However, you can use it to IM when on an EDGE or 3G wireless data connection.
I was a little surprised by the sound quality. It seemed to lose almost all the mid and high frequency leaving a very bass heavy sound. I also noted drops in the beginning of the call (right after answering the call).