Apple has officially begun approving 3rd party web browsers for use on the iPhone. This news may or may not be important to you depending on your feelings toward Safari; which is the iPhone’s current browser. Submissions of web browsers to be approved date back to October. Some of the approved browsers include Edge Browser, Icognito, WebMate and Shaking Web. Each browser offers similar features, some providing special functionality. I would recommend reading detailed reviews of a browser before making a purchase. While some of the browsers are free, others retail for $1.99 and up in the Apple App Store. There is still no word from some of the big players in web browsing like Opera and Firefox; but I would expect to see something from Firefox in the near future.
Remember Connect Four? Four Free is a take on this classic game where you try to align four chips of the same colour. Four Free stays true to the classic Connect Four with the red and black coloured chips. The goal of the game is align four of your chips either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Four Free allows users to play against a computer on three levels of difficulty (easy, medium, or hard). Please note, “hard” is actually hard…very hard. Overall this game is great, easy to use, and most importantly…its FREE (as the name indicates). The game has ads on the very bottom of the playing screen, but only when you are connected to the internet. Check it out on the iTunes App Store!
“Search by Voice” capabilities have been added to the iPhone by Google. Google Mobile App 0.3.142, a free iPhone application offered by Google, allows users to speak into the phone to search. Preliminary tests have shown that that words and phrases are correctly recognized about 80% of the time. Best results are obtained when you speak slowly and distinctly (you know, pretending to talk like a computer…). The Google Mobile App also includes the ability to search by location; whereby users can complete a google search with results relative to where they are based on their current GPS position. This is especially handy when searching for things like restaurants. You can download the application directly from iTunes or from the Apps Store application on your iPhone.
