Google Mobile App: Voice Recognition for the iPhone
Yesterday Google released Google Mobile App for the iPhone an application that provides a central point to launch all your Google applications from, it also features a search facility that is location aware and boasts voice recognition.
TechCrunch featured an article First Look At Google Mobile App For iPhone: Great But Not Second Coming which examples the applicaiton features and compares it's results to those shown my google in their demonstration video.
I this article I'm going to look at how well the application performed when I tried some basic searches in the office this morning.
Wrath of the Lich King: First Opinions
Well it's now just under a week since the Blizzard's second expansion to World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King was released. In that time I've managed to level Spangles to the dizzy heights of level 72 and thought I'd post some of my thoughts and experiences.
Where did that screenshot come from…
So there I was looking at not only my first post but the first posdt from my iPhone when I started to pay attention to the images I had posted. When I posted it I took it to be just a standard picure of the iPhone screen assuming it came pre-installed, but the layout looked oddly familiar... hold on that's my iPhone! How the hell did I manage that?
A quick it to Google lead me to an article on On a Mac: Taking iPhone screenshots which revealed that it's one of the funky new features that came with the 2.0 firmware. I showed it to a guy a work and we wondered if it would work on the iTouch with the 2.0 firmware, OK it doesn't have a camera but WTF let's try it, and it does indeed work.
Test post from iPhone
I can't see me wanting to make huge post using the iPhone but let's see if it works.
