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.

countryquiz.speedymarks.com

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

The Cloud on the Air

Cloud computing is on everyone's lips nowadays. New web sites are started daily which try to replace your local installed applications, e.g.:

Office - Google Docs, Zoho Office
PIM - Webmail, Google Calendar
Imaging - Photoshop Express, Picnic
Dashboard Widgets - Widgetop

You can even have your whole desktop in your browser but that seems a little bit to much for me.

So what's the advantage of cloud computing? Obviously you only need a web browser and that's it. All your documents are stored on the internet and you can access them from everywhere. There is no need to install applications locally and keep them up to date.

But there is a second advantage. Having your apps and docs in your browser means you don't need a big computer anymore. But what will be the perfect machine for the Cloud? It doesn't need a big hard drive, an optical drive and a very fast CPU but it still should have decent screen and keyboard otherwise working will be a pain (which disqualifies ultra small laptops like the EeePC).



For me it looks like as Apples quite new MacBook Air is the perfect choice. It doesn't compromise on display and keyboard but otherwise it's as thin and light as possible which makes it easy to carry it with you and work from where ever you want. Not to mention the quite long battery life. The only feature missing seems to be a built in LAN connection (although you can buy a USB ethernet adapter). Of course the MacBook Air can connect via WLAN but a wired network is usually faster and much more reliable.

Finally there is the visionary name of it! Did Apple have to the Cloud in mind when they named it MacBook Air? I doubt it.

New iPhone App: Morse Code

Translates text into morse code and sends the message with a blinking iPhone.

morse.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.

bestsellers.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Language Translator

Translates any text between different languages using Googles language translation service. It can even detect the source language.

translator.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Plotter

A simple function plotter. Just enter the formula and the range for the x-value.

Available functions: sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, sqrt, exp, log, pow, abs, round, ceil, floor, random, PI

plotter.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Calculator

This is a full text calculator. Just enter your formula in the text box and tap the '=' button. You can use the Google calculator as well (e.g. for unit conversions).

Available functions: sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, sqrt, exp, log, pow, abs, round, ceil, floor, random, PI

calculator.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Feed Reader

This is just another RSS news feed reader especially optimized to read full text feeds like an eBook. It has an autoscroll feature to make reading long text as easy as possible without the need to scroll manually. You can jump quickly between the different articles.

In order to add feeds quickly it has built in feed search. Just type in the search keywords (e.g. news, sports, lifestyle, finance, games, ...) or the URL of a feed or the URL of the web site it is published.

You selection of feeds is stored locally in a cookie. There is no need to login or register.

rss.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Games Counter

A simple game counter. Track the score of different games easily without doing marks on paper. Perfect for sports, board-games, birthday parties and so on.

counter.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Basketball

This is the iPhone version of my basketball game optimized for the iPhone touch screen.

basketball.speedymarks.com