iPhone Passion

Over on Hack the Day I wrote about the most important apps on the iPhone for the manager on the go. For a long list of useful office and productivity tools for the iPhone for productive purposes, go ahead and read the article.

Wait no more: Apple has just released the official guide for iPhone web apps developers. All the details on what you can do, how to do, compatibilities issues and many more are available on the adc website

• Understand the capabilities of iPhone.
• Follow established design practices for the web.
• Adopt iPhone-specific design principles.

The following guidelines will help you prepare web content and design a website or web-based application for iPhone. If you are a seasoned web developer, there are probably just a few refinements you can make to ensure that your site looks great and works best on iPhone. You’ll need to read only those guidelines that are unique to iPhone. If you are fairly new to web development, you’ll want to make sure that you understand web standards and established web design best practices before following any iPhone-specific guidelines.

All you web programmers out there, here’s another gadget you should start worrying being compatible about.

All you iPhone owners out there, enjoy: the start has been given for a plethora of iPhone compatible apps.

You probably know this already, but if not, here’s the scoop as taken from the Official Apple iPhone page:

Calendar

Using its built-in calendar, iPhone lets you check your appointments with the flick of a finger. iPhone uses iTunes to sync with the calendar application you already use on your computer — iCal or Entourage on the Mac, or Outlook on a PC — just like it does with your contacts. If you don’t already use one of these applications to manage your appointments, now is a great time to start, so you’ll be ready to sync when your iPhone arrives. If you choose not to use a calendar program, that’s OK. You’ll be able to enter appointments directly into the iPhone calendar.

The guys from IntoMobile will be covering the iPhone launch live from the store in Santa Monica. Here’s the intro video.

What could one do with the iPhone, you may ask?

Anything.

Even GTD (Getting Things Done) becomes more than a tangible task with Apple’s magic gadget.

This guy  talks about what the iPhone could do in order to become the ultimate organisation tool one could need. A must read for you organization freaks out there.

ArsTehnica points us to a Forbes article that tries to dismantle Steve Jobs’ promise that they’d sell ten million iPhones in 2008. The main reasons given by the author are based on Apple’s lock-in strategy, the expensive prise and the exclusive deal Apple has made with Cingular.

What will it be? Only time will tell. In the meantime, we’re looking forward to being among the first ten million iPhone users

The giant German producer already has iPod integration in his automobiles. According to some sources, BMW considers introducing iPhone integration in all new BMW models.
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Here’s a cool parody – Microsoft introducing the Zune Phone.
I simply love the fake Balmer voice. It’s so damn real…

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Why the Cisco and Apple negociations ended up so shortly

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