New iPhone Project: URL Helper

Entering URLs isn't really fun. Most of the time only the domain name varies while the rest consists of standard parts with a lot of special characters. This application makes it easy and fast to enter even complex URLs, especially for non HTTP protocols.

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New iPhone Project: Map Mailer

This applications makes it easy to send any Google Maps location via email. You can use it to show to others where you are, where to meet, places you like or you would like to go.

Just select the location on the map. Enter subject and text press send. The application automatically appends a link to Google Maps with your selection to your email. So the receiver only has to click it to see your location, whether on the iPhone or the desktop computer.

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New iPhone Project: Budget

Stay in control and monitor your daily, weekly or monthly spendings with the help of this budget tracker application. Set yourself a limit and debit all your payments. You can always see how much money is left until your budget is gone and whether you might better postpone a purchase. Over time this should help to to save some money instead of going into dept.

Of course this application is not limited to money but you can use it to monitor any limited resource.

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New iPhone Project: Capital Quiz

Test your knowledge and name all state capitals of the USA.

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New iPhone Project: Mandelbrot Set

In mathematics, the Mandelbrot set, named after Benoit Mandelbrot, is a set of points in the complex plane, the boundary of which forms a fractal. Explore its beauty by diving into the boundaries. Tap the image and either zoom in and out or recenter the image. The Reset button brings you always back to the start in case you got lost.

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New iPhone App: Photo Finder

Get inspired by finding out what photos others have shot on a certain location. Adjust the map to the area you want and get the most popular or most recent photos from Panoramio.

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New iPhone App: Photo Tags

Search, view and slideshow the latest photos from Flickr and Photobucket for any combination of tags, out of curiosity or for your own inspiration.

Manage your tags in a hierarchical way in order to fine tune your search.

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New iPhone App: Weekday

Did you always want to know which day of week you or one of your friends was born? This iPhone web application calculates the day of the week for any date in the past and the future. It's useful to plan your holidays and trips or just find out the day of week for your next anniversary.

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Login to WorldWatchr and Share Your Webcams

After storing your SpeedyMarks on the server you can now do the same with your webcams on WorldWatchr:



Just login using your (existing or to be created) Google Account and all your webcams are stored on the server (on the Google server farm to be precise). This makes it possible to access your camera collection from everywhere even with multiple browsers. And the best, it works with the iPhone version as well, where you will see exactly the same webcams:



Don't worry, WorldWatchr doesn't ever see your Google Account password, rest assured. If you logout you are back to the local cookie based storage specific to each desktop and browser (and you have the option to clean your server storage before you leave).

Now you have the choice to either use the server and share your WorldWatchr webcams or keep them completely local and private.

Login to your SpeedyMarks

As a SpeedyMarks user you might have noticed the new Login link on the upper right hand corner:



An often requested feature of several users has been the server storage of the visual bookmarks. Yes, I heard you and I'm excited to let you know it's done now. Just login using your (existing or to be created) Google Account and all your SpeedyMarks are stored on the server (on the Google server farm to be precise). This makes it possible to access your SpeedyMarks from everywhere even with multiple browsers. And the best, it does work for the iPhone SpeedyMarks as well, which are separate from the desktop bookmarks:



Don't worry, SpeedyMarks doesn't ever see your Google Account password, rest assured. If you logout you are back to the local cookie based SpeedyMarks specific to each desktop and browser (and you have the option to clean your server storage before you leave).

Now you have the choice to either use the server and share your SpeedyMarks or keep them completely local and private.

New iPhone App: Astro

Explore the night sky, the mars or our old moon with the help of Google Maps. Click on the map to pan around quickly and zoom in to examine craters, spots or nebulas in more detail.

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New iPhone App: State Quiz

Test your knowledge and spot the states of the USA on the map.

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New iPhone App: States

Do you ask yourself sometimes, where in the USA is this state? This application shows each state of the USA on the map. Either select it from the list or jump around randomly.

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New iPhone App: Sunset

This applications helps to calculate the sunrise and sunset times for each location in world on each day of the year. Enjoy planning your next holiday, trip or photo session where ever and when ever you want to go. Just click on the location, choose date and timezone and optionally add 1 hour daylight saving.

sun.speedymarks.com

RSS Awareness Day

To day is the RSS awareness day. Therefore I would like to take the chance to point to my RSS Feed Reader application for the iPhone.

New iPhone App: Country Quiz

Test your knowledge and spot the countries of the world on the map. Choose from different regions. Start with the easier ones like Oceania and North America before you test yourself on Europe, Africa or even the whole world.

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New iPhone App: Countries

Do you ask yourself sometimes, where in the world is this country? This application shows each country of the world on the map. Either select it from the list or jump around randomly.

countries.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Bestsellers

Never miss hot new releases, movers & shakers and best selling books, music, DVDs, games, software, electronics and much more on amazon.com again.

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Why Apple made Safari so fast

Apple claims that Safari is the fastest browser on any platform, and they seem to be right. Since I read that news I have been asking myself:

Why on earth did they put so much engineering effort into such a feature? Does anybody think Firefox, Opera or even IE are too slow? Compared to the network imposed waiting times the rendering doesn't matter. All browsers seem to be fast enough, so putting in more development time to optimize the rendering speed even further doesn't make any sense, right?

This is what I thought until I got the new iPod Touch in my hands. And now I understood. The Safari browser on the iPod (and the iPhone) is fast, by far the fasted browser I ever saw on a handheld device. I feels like a desktop browser and this must be the reason why Apple optimized Safaris rendering speed. Well done.