WordPress for iPhone developer Raanan Bar-Cohen has announced that version 1.3 of the free iPhone WordPress app (App Store link) is now live. The announcement doesn’t explain what’s new in the update, other than this note: Please note: Due to a strange glitch when submitting the app, the About page of the “1.3″ version will […]

Here’s another music video shot entirely on an iPhone 3GS. (We featured the first iPhone 3GS music video earlier this week.). The song is Play by BJSR.

Steve Ellington‘s Technologic Overkill claims to be the first music video shot on an iPhone 3GS. The song by XFYA accompanies a video about the plight of a little blue robot and his attempt to be relevant in an increasingly technological world. It’s not destined to be a classic – but it’s an impressive reminder […]

The iPhone 3GS video revolution is here. Google has announced that uploads from mobile phones to YouTube have increased by 400% since last Friday, when Apple’s new iPhone 3GS went on sale. According to Google, the jump from the iPhone 3GS is part of a larger trend, driven by three things: new video-enabled phones on […]

UK’s dance music “evangelists” Ministry of Sound have launched a new iPhone application, “Dance Radio.” The $6.99 app offers a variety of global dance music stations, and includes these features: Listen to a live stream of Ministry of Sound’s exclusive dance radio station Choose from Ministry of Sound’s handpicked list of the top 100 dance […]

Apple today announced that it sold over one million iPhone 3GS models through Sunday, June 21, the third day after its launch. “Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.” The new iPhone 3GS […]

The Amazon Kindle may be a failure as a new media platform, but it’s great for reading books, right?

Maybe not.

Based on the experience of Gear Diary’s Dan Cohen, buying a book on the Kindle platform is a game of digital Russian roulette.

Cool/weird iPhone app of the day: Stanton Studio has released ToneTune, a “multiple tuning fork” that helps tune stringed instruments to the correct pitch by ear, “without searching through hard-to-find books or the web.” The application is loaded with standard and alternate tunings, over 60 in all, for guitars and other instruments. Users select a […]

Calabarock (App Store link) is a free internet-enabled multi-track audio recorder for the iPhone. When you create a track in Calabarock, it’s available almost instantly in MP3 format on calabarock.com for others to hear. The new track is also available instantly for other musicians to play on top of, just as if you were in […]

Used to be, the only tools aspiring journalists needed were pencils and a spiral notepad. Then, in the last decade, journalism schools recommended that their students have access to a computer (preferably portable) and an Internet connection. That seemed perfectly up-to-date in terms of media hardware, until today. Now, at the University of Missouri Journalism […]