I am a bit of an iPhone app junkie and from time to time there is one that just sucks me in. Wurdle is one of those new iPhone Apps that did just that. It is a word game like a wordsearch but the letters can go in any direction and you are not given a list of words. You have to find as many as you can in a pre-set time window. The longer the words the more points you get.
I am going to keep this post short because I must get back to my Wurdle…..
Do you like music? Do you have rythm? Are you sure? Try the iPhone App Tap Tap Revenge.
Tap Tap Revenge sends dots down lines and you have to touch them before they go off of the bottom of the screen. The dots come in different patterns that are somewhat matched to the beat of the music.
You can compare your score with others on the internet too.
Here is a very simple app on the iPhone that is one of those things that is just ingenious. The app is called Level and as the name says…. It is a Level. You know one of those things that have a little air bubble that is in the center when it is level?
Start up level and turn the iPhone lengthwise or leave it standing up and you will get a level with a little bubble. Using the built in accelerometer in the iPhone, the Application can determine what angle the iPhone is at. It tells you the angle in degrees as well as a virtual level on the screen.
Oh, and there is more. Set the iPhone on a flat surface facing up and you have another level. This is a round bubble level.
So next time you are handing that new picture, no need to run to the garage and try to find that level, reach for your electronic best friend, your iPhone.
Ok, by now we all know some of things that are not included in the iPhone that most other new phones these days include. One of them is Voice Dialing.
The only thing I can figure is Apple is counting on the App developers to come up with things that will fill the gaps.
Well for voice dialing there is a new App in the App Store called Voice Dialer that is trying to fill the gap of voice dialing. Unfortunately it still requires some iPhone hands on to get it to work.
Because of the developer agreement with Apple, applications are not allowed to run in the background. So there is no way currently to detect when someone pushed the button on their bluetooth headset. So to dial by voice you must first load the application by tapping on Voice Dialer.
Then you must touch the large button on the top part of the screen while giving the phone a command.
So how does it work? Actually pretty well. The first version I had would not automatically dial the number, you had to click on the number you wanted to dial. The latest update that I have does allow you to set a timer that will automatically dial after a set number of seconds.
I can only think this is so you can verify the person it selected is the correct person.
So far I have found the matches it finds to be pretty accurate. There is also no voice training like other voice dialers. You can use simple commands like “call John appleseed work” or “call nickname dad mobile”.
After speaking the command you will quickly see the contact information on the screen and after the set number of seconds for auto-dial, the dialing process begins.
This is still a young app and I am excited to see where they take the app. This is the first voice dialer app that is work writing about.
A new security flaw was found in iPhones that have password protection turned on. This is not a problem if you do not have password enabled, after all, it is already wide open.
This is the flaw: When asked for a password, click on the emergency call button then double tap the home button. If you have your home button setup to go to your favorites you will see a list of your favorites.
From the favorites screen you can click on the blue arrow and see all of the personal information for that favorite contact.
And there is more… If you click on the email address for the contact you can compose and email, click on cancel and you are back at your email account selection screen and you can then read all of the emails in all accounts.
If in the favorite contact details screen you click on send text message then you can click cancel and you then have access to all of the text messages in your phone.
If you have the home button set to bring up the iPod application, you can click on emergency dial then double click the home button and have full access to your iPod. No real security issue there that I can see.
The temporary quick fix for this Security Flaw is to go to settings -> General -> Home button and set it to Home. With this setting there is no more security flaw.
So the question is, was this a “feature”. I can see where some people would like access to the favorites in an emergency situation. However, there should be no access allowed to the personal information and definitely no access to the actual email application.
Lets say you are out with your kids and you fall and break your leg and you need the kids to call for help. But that password on the phone is so they cannot use the phone. They can at least call home, spouse, etc. without the password.
It appears that the next release of the iPhone will solve this problem. For now it can solved by changing the options. But, more than likely you do not have the password turned on anyways so it does not matter.
There has been large concern about the security of the iPhone, should you be worried? I don’t think so. This is the first major security flaw so far since the release of iPhone 2.0. If you compare that to the large number of security flaws that are found in windows mobile, they are not doing too bad.
Sorry Windows Mobile, I really like you too……
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