Alright, this has nothing to do with iPhones, or programming, but it’s too cool to not bring to your attention. You like traveling? You enjoy a challenge? Well, here’s the ultimate extreme sport for you then — check out MostTraveledPeople.com!
Yep, this site makes traveling into a competitive sport, with constantly updated world rankings no less. Now, is that not, like, the most cool thing ever? And even better, it’s a sport that no one has actually won yet; of the current 673 places on the list — and members can vote to add more! — the leader (and site founder) is “only” at 630.
Since trolls are always up for a challenge, and hey this is pretty much as challenging as challenges get, we signed up immediately, of course. And we have a not too bad start, check out the map of 145 places down — 528 to go! — which is good to debut us at MTP rank #408. Let’s see just how quickly we can improve that, shall we?
If you’re going to be at WWDC — and hey, even if you’re not, there’s other stuff there too — you should be aware of www.iviewr.com, which “provides a unique service to users of Apple’s mobile devices. Users can view handy snapshots of popular destinations and events around the globe.” In this case, it’s WWDC!
iPhone and iPod touch-wielding visitors to next week’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco can enhance their visit to the show with a handy guide made available by iViewr.com.
A website for iPeople who are going places, www.iViewr.com has introduced its latest event guide aimed at the legion of developers making the pilgrimage to the conference.
Completely free to access, this handy ‘Pod SnapShot’ has the look and feel of a native iPhone application and provides details of all aspects of the show - from Conference Schedules, Lab and Session details, Travel directions, Disabled access, Moscone Center facilities, after hours events and more.
“Like the previous event guides we’ve made available, iViewr provides visitors to the Conference with all of the important information especially formatted for display on their iPhones or iPods” said Rod Cambridge, founder of iViewr. “If you have one of these devices, there’s simply no more need to be carrying around a jumble of papers, map and leaflets when a guide like ours is available.”
Well, hard to argue with that; my Springboarded bookmark of their site has certainly replaced the 2-per-day printouts that I made last year to try and keep track of sessions. An excellent service, and probably worth checking out whatever else is there as well.
h/t: MacSurfer!
So we’re naturally interested in the idea of developing games for the iPhone/iPod touch, and thus we were intrigued by the offerings of iGiki, “the world leader in iPhone and iPod touch games,” and particularly the Ultra Games Bundle II Interactive, which they say “includes over 40 premium games, software to create your own games, widgets, and extraordinary extras.” Wow! What a deal, huh?
So we checked it out, and here’s how it went:
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Ah, yes. What could be more natural a web application for an iPhone or iPod than a custom radio feed over teh InterTubes? Well, that’s the theory behind Stitcher.com, “Custom radio that plays the news and talk you want.”
In their words,
Our service enables you to hear the audio content you care about. We “stitch” it into personalized, always-current stations that you can easily listen to on your iPhone or computer.
Stitcher revolutionizes information radio because it is:
Customized: we learn what you like and don’t like - so we can serve you better and better content
Easy: just start listening, we’ll take care of the rest
Portable: stream Stitcher anywhere: no satellite device, Wi-Fi or syncing required
It does work to the desktop as well, but the interesting part to us is its iPhone support. Let’s go log in, which is free and straightforward, if you have an iPhone:
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