Check them out now !

Might even have a go at doing one of my own

This release has been significantly redesigned and looks much slicker then previously. From what I have seen so far it also seems as this version seems more stable as so far it has behaved flawlessly, something I could not honestly say used to be the case.

Not being an iPhone owner ( I use this on an iPod Touch ) I can’t comment on the 3G performance of this app, though I would be interested to hear from anyone who does use it over their cellular connection rather than WiFi.

Overall a thoroughly recommended app that should be on everyones home screen.

Enjoy.

Presumably all the Twitter community who follow John had decided to have a look at my link as well resulting in lots of traffic and comments to this article. To be honest I have had a Twitter account for some time and have only really dabbled with it. I never expected that it could be used to drive traffic to a web site in this sort of way.

I suppose it just shows that social networks are immensely powerful tools for marketing and viral spread of information. It has certainly made me think about Twitter in a whole new light.

UPDATE : It seems on further examination that the traffic is coming from Johns very popular website http://daringfireball.net and not Twitter as I first thought. Still I guess I wuoldnt have got the link from John if I hadn’t posted on Twitter so it amounts to the same result in the end. If anything in fact the result is better, Johns site has more stiction than Twitter ( it will be around longer ) so hopefully will be more beneficial long term.

FURTHER UPDATE : Word is spreading. After DaringFireball.net linked to me Ars Technica have now picked it up and run a post in the Infinite Loop ! All in one day… Wow.

There had to be something wrong and looking around the forums I found a number of others reporting similar problems but none of the suggested solutions appeared to work. These ranged from removing all the installed apps, then reinstalling one by one to a range of what appeared to be mumbo jumbo approaches. Suffice to say I either didn’t try them or they didn’t work. Then the other night I noticed one comment in a thread ( which I can’t now recall ) that mentioned USB hubs possibly being at fault.

Now my iPod is normally plugged into a Belkin USB hub which has always worked fine so I really didn’t see this being a solution, but as the proposed solution ( plugging direct into my iMac USB ports ) was not a major effort I thought I would try it. Revelation ! Sync completed in about 5 minutes….

Now quite why this should fix the problem I am not clear but solve it it certainly did. If you are having problems with iPod Touch/iPhone synching performance, try this ( if you are using an external USB hub ). If it fixes your problems I would love to know.

Cheers

Until now there have been a variety of sites that have collected together links to iPhone friendly web sites but none have contained as many quality applications as Apples library does. These web applications to all intents and purposes appear to be custom applications, indeed some even continue to work even when the iPhone/iPod no longer has a wifi connection.

It appears that web applications are about to break through to compete directly with local applications not only on PC’s/Macs but now on handheld devices. With technologies such as Google Gears developing methods to allow online and offline working the distinction between what is networked and what is not if really becoming blurred.

Is now finally the age of the network computer ?

One company who have recognised this potential market is Alloysoft whose Signal product allows you to use the iPhone or Touch to control the music playing from iTunes ( or WinAmp etc if you really must… ). The software consists of a Windows or Mac application that generates a web site that you can browse to using the Safari browser on the iPhone. The site that is presented allows you to browse through your music collection to find the required track/album and then to start that track playing and control the playback. Once a track is playing the album cover art is displayed on the iPhone/iPod along with track details and ratings.

This is really the ideal companion application for Apples Airport Express. With it you can use the cheap Airport and your iPhone/Touch to create a very affordable multi room stereo system.

Well worth a look