There have been a lot of new visitors to iPhone J.D. this week thanks to the ABA Journal article listing this as one of the Top 100 Blawgs. If you are new here, check out the iPhone J.D. Index to get caught up. For long time readers of iPhone J.D., I'd appreciate your vote. Now, on to the iPhone news from this week:
- Earlier this year, I wrote a post on the origin and meaning of the "i" in "iPhone." More recently, Caleb Crain wrote an interesting article for the New York Times Magazine in which he argues that one should not use capital letters in the middle of words, a practice that he calls Camel Case but which I have more frequently seen referred to as InterCaps. Crain argues that we should all write Iphone instead of iPhone. Um... no.
- This AP article lists suggests some good hardware gifts for an iPhone owner.
- Dan Dearing writes an article in Networld World about how corporate environments that currently shun the iPhone should learn to accept it because their users are using them anyway.
- The new website App Rejections writes about iPhone apps that Apple has rejected from the App Store. Some of the stories are quite humorous.
- If you like to take pictures with your iPhone, Rik Fairlie of the New York Times suggests some good apps.
- Michael Agger writes in Slate about "iPhone moms" who use iPhones themselves but also let their kids use their iPhones. Neil Swidey writes a similar article for the Boston Globe.
Looking for a fun game on your iPhone that you can play in very short intervals? I really like Ramp Champ from Iconfactory, a twist on the classic boardwalk skee-ball game. And speaking of letting your kid use your iPhone, my four year old son also loves this game too. It is free for a limited time, so get it while you can. Click here to get Ramp Champ (free for now):
- Speaking of free, Sean Ludwig of PC Magazine identifies his Top 40 Free iPhone Apps. There are some good ones on his list.
- Apparently, an iPhone can still work even if it is so cracked that you need Scotch Tape to keep it together. (via Denise Howell)
- Dan Moren writes for Macworld about adding locations to calendar events on the iPhone.
- Philip Michaels writes for Macworld about improvements to the PDF viewer in Documents to Go. The improvements are great, and this app is now my favorite PDF viewer for the iPhone.
- If you travel a lot, you should check out the FlightTrack app. David Pogue of the New York Times gives it a great review. Click here for FlightTrack Pro ($9.99):
- I know a lot of lawyers who are fantastic guitar players. For example, Doc Schneider of King & Spalding in Atlanta has some great songs on iTunes. (Some of my favorites: The Legal Guitarist, Wherever You Are, Choices and Chances and The Best Year of My Life.) And Jonathan Hoffman of Martin Bischoff in Seattle has five different albums of fun and nicely done songs for dog lovers. (I myself play piano, although I do hope to learn the guitar one day.) For all of you out there who play guitar, Bob Tedeschi of the New York Times suggests some great guitar-related iPhone Apps.
- And finally, I know many attorneys who use Dragon Naturally Speaking software on their computers. This software lets you dictate to your computer and has very good accuracy. I have tried the product before, but because I am a very fast touch typist, it isn't something that I have wanted to use. But apparently Nuance, the manufacturer, is coming out with an iPhone app. I can definitely talk faster than I can type on my iPhone, so this app looks very intriguing. There is no release date yet nor has a price been announced, but this demo of a beta version from Gear Diary is very very interesting:
