Lists

Ask anyone who has been on the internet more than twice and they will tell you that print media is dead. Yeah, you lose some of the serendipity with the internet and coupons are much harder to cut out (I keep scratching my screen) but the future is clear and dead trees aren’t in the equation.

All that noted the old school magazines still carry a certain cachet. Particularly the big ones. You know: NewsWeek, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Parade (well just the Howard Huge part).

But no mag carries more automatic respect than Time magazine and Time loves the iPhone. How can you be sure? First Time named the iPhone the #1 gadget of the year (2007) and secondly the mag has devoted an entire piece to the best apps for the iPhones.

The bad thing about the list? It is a slideshow. iPM is here to help. Time’s choices are:

1. Pandora Internet Radio
2. AroundMe
3.… more...

So you’re an iPhone type person but you’re also a business tyoe person. What you want is a list of business apps to make your life easier. And your life is tough. You’ve got to submit expenses, convert currencies on over seas trips and track your time. Usually that kind of stuff means dragging your notebook around and a lot of phone calls.

Not anymore. Resourcenation has a pretty great list of 11 surprisingly useful business apps for your iPhone. We haven’t tried out any of the apps yet but if the descriptions are correct some the apps on the list are pretty damn cool.

The year is winding down (and it has been a huge year for all things iPhone) which means you’re going to be seeing a ton of lists. When it comes to apps for the iPhone that is great news because with over 10,000 apps it is hard to know which one to investigate to see if it is worthy of installing.

For wanna be casual gamers, or people about to embark on a long trip with a kid, AppStoreApps has a nice list of the best games for 2008. They break it down into categories (Board games etc.) and list the best app in each category. Check out the list and let us know what games get you going.  Oh, Oregon Trail will you ever come to the App Store?

Half the fun of having the iPhone is making other people wish the had one too. That is getting harder to do now that there are over twelve million of the things running around, who hasn’t seen the internet on the iPhone or seen someone pick a restaurant by shaking their do everything chicklet.

Don’t worry, you can still impress friends and coworkers with just a little work. All you need to do is check out a great list over at AppleDailyTimes. The list is full of juicy tips like controlling your bosses computer and getting fake calls from really important people. “Oh do go on, you’re so droll” bzzzt “Sorry, gotta take this, Steve Jobs...again” Fun stuff especially for those boring parties that always happen this time of year.

There’s a certain segment of people out there who are jealous of the iPhone’s success so they are always looking for something better. Today’s something better is either the Nokia N95 or N97 depending on who you’re listening to. Well, if you listen to Robert Scoble it is the N97, if you listen to Paul Bradshaw it is the N95. And, to prove their points they have lists.

Nokia is better because it has a 5 Megapixel camera, the iPhone’s camera is only 2 Megapixels. Wow, five is 2.5 times bigger than two si that’s a clear win right? In Scobles case the N97 is all about FaceBook so let’s think a bit about the image size. How big do want your images on FaceBook? A five megapixel camera generates a 35.8” wide picture at 72 DPI (what a lot of monitors use). A two megapixel camera generates a 22.2” wide picture at 72 DPI. Both are a bit overkill for posting photos to Facebook. Sure, more pixels are better especially when it comes to printing but for posting to the web 2 megapixels… more...

Asylum has a very nice list of retro games for your iPhone. Sure, you’ve got lots of lists for the iPhone but the picks here are especially delicious.

Of course Space Invaders shows up but there’s plenty of unexpected stuff as well. Marble Madness, Zork and Mattel Football all show up. The list has utility as well. Developers can’t brew up a copy of Mattel Football and call it “Mattell Football” that would infringe on a copyright so they have to change the name a little bit. Trying to guess that Mattel Football goes by LED Football on the iPhone would be a tough road. Asylum’s list takes care of that for you.

Side note to list maker: No one played Mattel Football while dreaming of being Troy Aikman. Mattel Football came out in 1977, Troy Aikman didn’t start playing at UCLA until 1986. When kids picked up Mattel Football they were dreaming of Terry Bradshaw

There are three built in ways to get video on your iPhone: The YouTube App, video podcasts and (if you’re a handbrake kind of person) ripping DVD’s. Oh, you’d think there would be a video recording app, maybe an iMovie iPhone app or something like that but you’d be wrong. So you’re stuck with video created elsewhere. And while the options mentioned earlier seem like a lot in the big world wide web scheme of things it really isn’t all that much.

The good news is that the video world has opened up since the App Store was created. The bad news is that to find them on your own you’ll have to do a lot of downloading. If only there was a list of apps to get you started. Great news Mashable has done just that. They’ve collected ten apps that add video to your iPhone. The list ranges from The Weather Channel to Joost and looks to be a great primer on ways to get more video on your iPhone. Check out the list: Beyond YouTube: 10 Top iPhone Video… more...

You know the craziness that is Black Friday. People get up at 4:30 in the morning (who knew there was a 4:30 AM?) and head out to the stores where they stand in line to get consumables really cheap. One of the things you’re not likely to get your paws on this year is the Wii Fit. The fit is in some permanent state of sellout which means someone you know probably wants one.

Well, skip the lines and skip the fit because your iPhone has you covered. Sure you can’t step on the iPhone but you can download a bunch of programs that will help you shed the pounds you gained by eating the entire turkey, three helpings of mashed potatoes and Aunt Mildred’s poodle. Wait, you ate a poodle? You sick $#@5!

Not here to judge. Anyway The AppleBlog has your solution with a list of 9 apps to help you reach your fitness goals. None of them are as fun as Advanced Step found in the fit (purple… more...

After an update, I am always interested in problems users are having with their iPhone. Unfortunately, there is no such things as the perfect update process or even the perfect update. So, tell me your problems. It has been a few days since 2.2 was released and we want to know your experience before, during, or afterwards.

Although I am no expert in fixing a lot of problems, it is always a learning experience to hear problems others have, had, or having. That way, for future reference I will be able to help. Not to mention, others with the same problems can also chime in to give a solution if they have one.

A few problems that I have heard so far after the update are:

*Some third-party applications will no longer function properly under iPhone OS 2.2 due to API changes and other modifications. Updates are slowly being released for fixes.

*Some users are encountering an inability to connect to the Internet over cellular networks after the iPhone OS 2.2 update.

*In Google Maps It appears that Google Maps for… more...

If you bought an iPhone just for calling you probably made a mistake. If you bought an iPhone for the “internet” everywhere experience you’re probably pretty satisfied. Just because you’re satisfied doesn’t mean you’re getting the best experience out there. For example, I’m satisfied with my 1976 AMC Hornet but I hear that there are better cars available. So how can you tell if you’re experiencing the best mobile internet experience around? Gizmodo has you covered with their Mobile Browser Battlemodo. Sure it sounds like it a kids game involving magnets and balls that roll under the couch but it’s not. It is a more staid browser showdown.

The entire thing is worth reading but we can hit the high points:
Overall winner… (oh, could it be the BB Bold, the G1? The tension is killing me)
The iPhone! Why?

What can we say? It’s still got the best mobile browser around. It crushes basically everything but Android’s browser—which is also based on WebKit—in speed and outclasses its still classy brother-from-another-mother (and everyone… more...