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Mobile Safari killing competitionToday

ArsTechnica is reporting that Mobile Safari had almost 50 of the US Mobile Browser space - not bad considering the the iPhone has only been around … what 2 years now?

Safari has almost half of US mobile browser share

I’d be interested to see a graph like this for the international market.

Read the full report at Ars Technica

PED3 Rotating iPhone Stand ReviewToday

Hot on the heels of our review of the Bat Rest stand for the iphone, I’m finally stealing some time to put finger to keyboard to review the PED3 iPhone Stand.

The PED3 stand is an interesting device, beautifully made and very solid, that will cradle your iPhone allowing you to watch hands free - in either a vertical or horizontal position. However it has some serious flaws

When the PED3 stand first arrived, I very quickly whipped it out of it’s box and threw it together. It comes as two parts. I then proceeded to put my iPhone into the holder - which to be honest didn’t really fit all that well … a few short hours later I was on a plane & couldn’t get back to the PED3 to really test it. Now I’ve had a chance to really explore the stand over the past few days … and on one hand I like it, on the other … well you’ll just have to read on.

PED3 iPhone Stand

Made from metal (I wish I could tell you it was aircraft grade aluminum or … but I just don’t know Edit: Thought Out tell me it’s Solid American Steel) and coated in a beautiful glossy black (I’m going to guess it’s powder coated - it has that look to it) the PED3 is

10,000 iTunes Apps? BollocksToday

It’s a big lovely round number 10,000 and it’s 100% completely and utterly wrong. I’m surprised no one else has mentioned this, but oh well. Let me rant for a little bit here.

As we know from sites like improvetheappstore.com many developers are pissed off with the way the app store is run. Many admit that they create duplicates of their app one Paid and one Free and this is what I’m getting at here.

Apple say they have over 10,000 apps, but how many of those are duplicates? I’m going to guess that at least 1/3 of these are duplicates, so we are already down to 7,700 - not 10,000.

What about all the dupli

Introducing Israel Torres - writerToday

Hey there everyone, we are pleased to announce that Israel Torres is coming on board as a writer for iPhoneSource - Israel is a mad keen iPhone user who currently is firmly in the Windows Camp (we’ll bring him over to the Apple side yet!!)

Israel brings to iPhoneSource the obvious, input from a Windows user, but also the input of someone firmly in the tech industry. He’s often trying out new utilities and tells me that VNC software gets a hammering on his iPhone.

Just as mad about iPhone’s as the rest of us, we are pleased to have Israel on the team. So look out for future posts coming soon from IsraelTorres

Porn on your iPhone?Today

Don’t worry this is a family friendly blog post. With more and more parents having iPhones & allowing their kids to use them it was only a matter of time before someone wrote something to help protect our young ones while surfing this sordid place we call the interweb.

SafeEyes, a popular application for blocking certain websites on your computer, is in the process of releasing an iPhone version. Now just how this will work I don’t know. But I do know this: it will NOT replace mobile safari, nor will it (from what I can see) block mobile safari from doing anything.

From what I can tell it is a skinned version of mobile safari with some extra features. Now some of the features are nice in that you can set up user profiles and each profile can have different filter rules applied to it. So I can visit a naughty site, but you can’t (and a naughty site might simply be an online gaming site - not XXX like your thinking).

The app has all the mobile Safari features, and on the surface seems great, but any kid is going to know that Mobile Safari is still on the phone - it’s a default app, you can’t remove it, so I’m not sure this app will really do what it does on the PC (stop your browser visiting bad sites)

Now for a really scary video by the CTO of internetsecurity.com (note to other video makers - don’t get so close to the camera - you’ll just scare the kids)