The Compass app that comes with the iPhone 3GS does what I need it terms of giving me latitude and longitude in degrees and digits, but there’s no way to capture those coordinates except by hand. It would be nice to have an app that would let me copy and paste or at least enter a series of locations which I could then later somehow download.
Apple has some sample code for a Locate Me app here.
This afternoon when I plugged in my phone to sync with iTunes, which I do only about once a week in order to grab new podcasts — hey, everything else is synced over the air, “automagically” — I got a pop-up telling me that there were new carrier settings, would I like to install them? I haven’t checked out what they are, but MacWorld has an explanation of the files involved and how one can edit them, if need be. Am I saying that I don’t completely trust AT&T and Apple at all times? Why, yes, I guess I am.
I’ve written before about the amazing efforts by the likes of MIT and now Stanford, with its SEE (Stanford Engineering Everywhere) initiative. Stanford is now offering free video downloads of the class, “iPhone Application Programming,” to the public on its iTunes U Web site.
Macworld has a review of three iPhone apps that allow you to work with your Flickr account. I don’t see anything that transforms my current workflow, but it’s nice to know they are there. Here’s the review.
