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Summer iPhone Apps

Summer has arrived! - It took a few years, but it finally has arrived. So there is a lot more time spent out and about, and yet I still need my fix of information. Here are a few current iPhone Apps I have been using to control my addiction:

Wimbledon App

This is a brilliant little App to keep up-to-date with all things Wimbledon. It has the latest scoreboards, which when you tilt the iPhone displays them per court that you can easily scroll though. It also has 3 wimbledon radio stations, so u can listen to the action as well as having the scoreboard visible, and easily flip between different matches.

Other useful features are the schedule of play, video clips of the daily news, information on players, tweets, photos, and Spectator information if you happen to actually be at Wimbledon. A great little App, and free!

iBooks

With the launch of the new iPhone OS4 update that is free to download, you can now enjoy some new features. However the new iBooks App doesn't just appear, you will have to download it form the iTunes store. Worth downloading, there are lots of free books to try.

Absolute Radio

If you are out on your own and bored of the music selection on your iPhone, you could download a Radio App to listen to some radio stations. I've currently tried the Absolute Radio App. Pretty simple, but has the choice of the normal Absolute Radio, a rock channel and more importantly a cheesy 80s station - ideal for the summer.

Found some interesting Apps for the iPhone or even for another phone? - leave a comment and share the love.

If you are interested you can also check out the best out and about and game apps too.

 

Freaky Flash

Flash Developer Piet Dewijngaert has created himself a flash portfolio website. What is interesting about this flash site, is the madcap way he has gone about it. Loud Techno music (careful with those speaker volumes), bizarre shapes and ways of displaying his work. But shows off the things he can actually do with actionscipt. Nice to see something a bit off the wall.

Check out Piet's weird and wonderful website

Glitch!

Glitch is coming. A creative game. On the Web.

With the growing trends of online games such as Farmville for Facebook, TinySpeck are bringing a more creative online game to the web.

Glitch is a massively-multiplayer game, playable in the browser and built in the spirit of the web. It is currently in development and will launch late in 2010. Private alpha is beginning shortly and a public beta period will begin this summer.

For starters, it's all one big world. Which means everyone is playing the same game and anyone's actions have the ability to affect every other player in the game. It also involves very little war, moats, spaceships, wizards, mafiosos, or tapestries. Also: they have egg plants. Egg plants make it very different.

See Glitch being built in a timelapse video.

It definitely looks interesting. - Sign up today to get invited to the beta testing.

 

Concept Waterscraper Brings Monumental Architecture Into The Open Sea

Upside down floating skyscraper

"For the last five years, eVolo Magazine has hosted a futuristic skyscraper design competition. Usually, the entrants imagine giant buildings taller than anything under construction today. However, the most impressive entry in this year's competition goes the opposite route, by dropping the building straight into the sea. This floating building would generate its own electricity and food, house thousands, and plunge deep beneath the waves."

Upside down floating skyscrapers, mental!?!?!? 

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