Wednesday, January 16, 2008

JamBase iPhone

There's been a lot of talk of Apple this week with MacWorld right down the street from our San Francisco office. Kudos to Steve Jobs on another unveiling. If you missed the keynote, you can still wait it on Apple's site here. While the announcements were going on he caused Twitter to go down and his stock took a bit of a hit.

All the while he managed to release a automated wireless backup hard drive (does it work with my existing wireless external HD?), a second version of AppleTV which doesn't require a computer and let's you rent movies (really just an on-demand service), an ultra-light super-thin MacBook that doesn't have a CD player (note this date as the official death of the plastic disc), and an upgrade to the iPhone to add customizable icon placements and Google Maps location finder.

While we're on the subject of the iPhone, I made a few small tweaks to the JamBase iPhone app to bring it a little more current. Just go to http://www.jambase.com/iphone from your iPhone and you'll get a nice mini-menu of options for Articles or Shows. If you're connected to wireless it should localize the shows for you, and I'm hoping to tap into that fancy technology Steve unveiled for fake-GSP and integrate that as well for edge users. Be sure to hit the + symbol in iPhone Safari to save the link to your home screen for easy access :)

Rock on...