Five years after after Amazon launched the Music Store, Amazon has announced that it has optimized its MP3 music store specifically for Safari on iOS devices to challenge the iTunes Store. iPhone and iPod touch users can discover and buy digital music from Amazon’s 22-million song catalog using the Safari browser. » Amazon MP3 Store Now Optimized For iPhone & iPod touch
OpenAppMkt: Web-Based Third Party App Store
New day new….. App Store? Yea that’s right, OpenAppMkt is a web-based third party app store for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The apps that you can download are completely written in HTML, if you would like to install a app alls you have to do is push the “add to home” button. The good thing of OpenAppMkt is that you don’t need a jailbroken device to use it (like Cydia). All you have to do is go to http://www.OpenAppmkt.com/ and follow the instructions. You are not really installing something when you hit the “add to home” button, all you really do is create a Safari bookmark on your home screen. They are all web apps, so to use the apps you need a internet connection. » OpenAppMkt: Web-Based Third Party App Store
With a first generation iPhone or an iPhone 3G, you only have 128 MB of memory. The iPhone’s internet browser Safari takes up a big portion of that memory. And that portion keeps growing if you open up more pages. If you have a jailbroken device you can force apps to close via SBSettings. But wouldn’t it be handy to close Safari automatically after you press the homebutton? Cydia has an answer.
Safari RSS Reader feature on the iPhone
I’m not sure how many people are aware of the local RSS feed reader in Safari on the iPhone/iPod touch. This service sort of lags from the old. Mac service, and I have no idea why Apple has not yet updated it to reflect and integrate with the MobileMe service.
» Safari RSS Reader feature on the iPhone
Pastebud: Copy & Past between Safari & Mail
Pastebud is a new service that allow copy and past text between Safari and Mail but also between webpages. It does not require any application to be installed and works using two bookmarks in Safari.
» Pastebud: Copy & Past between Safari & Mail
iMobileCinema: Flash support for Safari (jailbreak)
iMobileCinema is a powerful Safari plugin for playing internet videos on your iPhone or iPod touch. You can watch millions of videos on any podcast site or blogs with it. Install it and visit Google Video, Youtube, or any other sites via Safari.
» iMobileCinema: Flash support for Safari (jailbreak)
One of the much needed and wanted additions to the iPhone currently is the implementation of Adobe Flash Player in MobileSafari. There has been many speculations of how this will be done or if it will even make it to the iPhone. Well, reportedly, Adobe Systems’ Sr. Director of Engineering, Paul Betlem, has confirmed that Flash is indeed coming to the iPhone, but “Apple calls the shots as to when it’ll be available.†» Flash on iPhone: Adobe confirms it, Apple decides when