It's a short week on iPhone J.D. due to the holidays. Hopefully, you have Friday and Monday off like we do at my firm. Here are the iPhone and iPad news items of note from the past week:
- Indiana attorney Bill Wilson considers TrialPad the best app of 2011 for lawyers.
- Michael Rose of TUAW recommends iPad apps and accessories as gifts for business colleagues.
- Click here for a funny Dilbert cartoon regarding Siri on the iPhone 4S.
- Do you sometimes forget where you parked your car? Find My Car Smart is a $25 device that you leave in your car, and using the advanced Bluetooth Smart technology in the iPhone 4S, your iPhone can show you how to get back to your car, even in a crowded parking lot. This is a Kickstarter project, but it has already far surpassed the $10,000 goal so it looks like this one will be made.
- Billion Dollar Hippy is a one hour documentary about Steve Jobs produced by the BBC, now available to view on YouTube.
- Mike Schramm of TUAW reports that, if you are a Verizon customer, you'll be able to watch the Super Bowl live on your iPhone or iPad.
- And finally, I didn't believe this video when I first saw it, but then I read Jim Dalrymple's post at The Loop explaining how it is done. Some smart folks who work at Yamaha figured out how to use Siri to tell a Yamaha Disklavier player piano to play songs: