TimesToCome Mobile

What a shame they only built this one for the iPhone.

Converter converts angles, area, bits, currency, energy, temperature, time, length, speed, pressure, power, volume and weight.

Easy to use from your phone.

This is probably the thing I miss most about my old Palm and the one thing that held me back so long from buying an iPhone.  There is no way to store / read pdfs on the iPhone.

If you have an internet connection you can store a bunch of pdfs in a mailbox and then download each one and read it while you have an internet connection.  That was useless under edge and is only  a slightly better option on 3G.  It forgets where you are in the document each time.

So it was with great anticipation I downloaded and installed FileMagnet.  FileMagnet does what it says it does, it allows you to transfer pdfs (and other documents) to your iPhone and access them while offline.

What it doesn’t tell you is there is no landscape mode, or text mode, so you have to scroll back and forth through each line you read.  It also doesn’t remember where you are in the document.

So you can either store a pdf on your iPhone or read a pdf on your iPhone but not both.  At least not yet.

I’m still hoping Adobe will step up and fix this problem.

The new WordPress 2.6 broke my favorite mobile interface plugin. That is not good. So I was happy to see an iPhone Wordpress application.

The application lets you edit your most recent posts, create a new post, upload a photo to a post, and publish a post.

What is missing is the ability to delete a post, or edit a comment, or post a comment or approve or disapprove a pending comment. I’m hoping this shows up in future versions.

What the iPhone Wordpress application does, it does well. I’m hoping other iPhone WordPress applications will follow, or this one will get fleshed out more. Better yet would be a fix for the mobile interface plugin.

In the meantime we shall make do with what’s available.

I tried setting up email to use to blog from my cell phone with WordPress. While it worked effortlessly when I emailed from my desktop computer, all emails from my cell phone were placed in a ‘hold’ instead of being published. Posting by email does not handle images.

You can set up Flickr to push email posts to your WordPress blog as another alternative. But I think you’ll find the iPhone WordPress application does just fine.

Slashdot has a story on O2, Sprint and Boost Mobile allowing search engine spiders to crawl your messages. Any MMS messages that send the photo to the phone website are findable:

Google inurl:pictures.sprintpcs.com/share.do?invite= to see Sprint’s list.

So if it is private - don’t mms it!

Check to be sure your phone provider is blocking search engine spiders from making your mms searchable.