Tag Archives: iPhone web apps

Google in Mobile Safari Now Searches App Store

by on October 28th, 2010 at 3:36 pm

iPhone Apps now have their own entry in Google Search options in Mobile Safari. Despite all the Google vs Apple feuds we hear so much about, the search giant continues to add useful updates to its iPhone web apps. Thomas mentioned some Gmail web app improvements earlier, and the main …

Swearch – a Cool iPhone Web App

by on October 24th, 2010 at 11:20 am

It’s been a while since I’ve had the desire to talk about a cool web app for the iPhone. A long while. It hasn’t happened very much at all since the App Store opening for business two and a bit years ago. Swearch is a web app that’s worth talking …

Google Reader Mobile Just Keeps Getting Better

by on March 18th, 2010 at 9:53 am

     I’ve tried just about every leading RSS app for the iPhone, but more often that not I come back to the one that has been the best since before the App Store even opened and still remains the best – Google Reader’s web app. Each time I think I’ve …

More Google Web Goodness for iPhone: New Near Me Now Feature

by on January 9th, 2010 at 6:20 pm

Google ‘s web apps for the iPhone have always been amongst the very best to use “ Google Reader has been, and remains, one of my most used apps since Day 1 of using the V1 iPhone. Now even the plain old Google.com search site home has got a little …

Nextstop – An iPhone Web App That Kicks Ass

by on December 15th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

It ‘s been a long while since I ‘ve seen a really good iPhone web app.  Ever since the App Store came along (and really starting back with the first jailbreak native apps) web apps have been considered the ugly stepchildren in the iPhone apps arena.  Well nextstop is ‘just …

Google Spreadsheets Now Editable on iPhone

by on February 13th, 2009 at 10:07 am

We’ve said it before, and we’ll surely be saying it again soon – Google just keeps on bringing more good stuff to the iPhone, and at a very hectic pace so far in 2009. Today they’ve announced that access to spreadsheets in Google Docs on the iPhone (and Android and …

Google Reader on iPhone vs. Native RSS Apps = Like Marvin Hagler vs. … Well, Anyone

by on February 8th, 2009 at 12:51 pm

Ever since the first cool jailbreak apps started coming out, and certainly ever since the App Store launched, most of us have tended to write off web apps, to class them very much as the ugly step-child amongst iPhone apps. There is one web app though that has been an …

Latest Google iPhone Goodness: Google Books Mobile

by on February 5th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

Hot on the heels of Gmail Tasks on the iPhone, today’s new bit of Google iPhone goodness is Google Books. I’ve just discovered this via a post from Andy Ihnatko, and given it a very quick look. I’ve never really paid any attention to the Google Books project, but apparently …

Tips and Tweaks Make 37signals’ Backpack A “Must Have” iPhone Applicatio...

by on April 11th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

In recent weeks I have become a huge fan of 37signals’ Backpack. Backpack is hard to describe. It is an electronic organizer, a group calendar, a to-do list keep and reminder, an idea drop-box, file-storage, brainstormer, internal messenger and a whole lot more. Lifehacker put it this way in January— …