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iPhone Drive allows device to be used for file storage under Mac OS X

iPhoneDrive is a new Mac OS X application that lets you use your iPhone for file storage, much like an iPod in disk mode. The tool allows you to drag and drop files from the Finder, but needs to be installed on any Mac to which you want the iPhone to accept or send files.

iPhone Drive shows how much space is available on the iPhone and has options for copying to the iPhone or from the iPhone as well as creating folders -- simple but effective.

The tool requires Mac OS X 10.4.10 and iTunes 7.3. … Read more

Battle of the iPhone IM clients

We previously reported on the TinyBuddy Web-based instant messaging client, which works great on the iPhone. A new iPhone-optimized offering has now been introduced: JiveTalk for iPhone. Both work well and are acceptable solutions for sending and receiving instant messages from the iPhone. Here's a quick feature comparison:

JiveTalk (alpha)

Supports multiple instant messaging protocols, including AIM/iChat, MSN, Yahoo!, GoogleTalk, ICQ and Jabber. A nice-looking interface that closely resembles iChat and shows away/status messages for members of your buddy list. Interface is sometimes slow to load in the iPhone's version of Safari. Can result in lags … Read more

iTunes 7.3 released: adds iPhone support

Apple has released iTunes 7.3 (Mac, Windows), which adds the ability to synchronize with the iPhone and a new feature for the Apple TV. Specifically, new features include:

Activate your iPhone service Sync iPhone with your music, movies, TV shows, and more Wirelessly share digital photos from any computer in your home with Apple TV

The new release is available as:

for Mac OS X 10.3.9 or Mac OS X 10.4.7 [ 33.3 MB standalone download] for Windows Windows Vista, Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 and Windows XP [47.4MB standalone download]

On the … Read more

"iPhonifying" Web pages

David Cann, the Web developer behind iPhoneDigg and iPhoneChat, has released an iPhone "skin" for Google Reader. Unlike his other iPhone Web apps, which create entirely new interfaces that are separately hosted, the Google Reader iPhone Skin employs the GreaseMonkey concept: injecting a new interface into a Web page on the fly by piggybacking Javascript while retaining the underlying functionality. Cann plans to apply this method of "iPhonifying" web pages to other sites in the near future. The Google Reader skin supports starring, viewing Subscriptions, viewing Folders, next/Previous Item and more.

iPhone simulation app gains zoom-to-fit function, goes open-source

The Mac OS X application iPhoney, which simulates an iPhone interface by using WebKit to render pages in 320x480 or 480x320 (depending on how the simulated iPhone is oriented), has been updated to version 1.1 [1.4MB download]. The primary new feature in this release is zoom-to-fit, which will resize Web pages to completely (width-wise) in the iPhone screen. However, there is still no function to emulate "tap-zooming" (zooming in on specific portions of a page) nor touch-scrolling.

The new release also adds the ability to turn off plug-ins (including Flash, which is not supported by the … Read more

The kids and their Facebook API implementations these days

Mark at Doomlaser (hey, maybe "the Macalope" isn't that wacky after all) has created a nifty screen saver that downloads pictures of your Facebook friends and goes all Quartz Composer on them.

The Macalope himself has not "gotten into" the Facebook as it presents certain obvious challenges (his visage sometimes frightens small children and should not be displayed around pregnant women), but perhaps his charming and erudite readers are more into the social networking scene.