I’ve recently reviewed some more different cases and covers for the iPhone:
Pro/Tec’s battery-charging Energy, and their soft leather Executive, as well as Griffin’s elan form.
Well, the Griffin’s already been snaffled by a mate (sorry!), but I’m going to give the two Pro/Tec cases away. However, I do have another case knocking around which I’ll throw in.
The iPhone case giveaway ended on Friday at midday, and here are the lucky winners!
I gave everyone who entered a number, and then did some clicking over at random.org to generate the winning entries. So, the winners are:
I’ll contact each of you in turn to see which case you’d like. If there are any cases that the winners don’t want, I’ll grab another random winner and let you know.
Thanks to everyone who entered. There will be another few case reviews and a giveaway in a little while 
I’ve recently reviewed three different cases and covers for the iPhone:
Proporta’s Soft Feel silicon case
VOi’s Lorem hard shell case, and
iWrap’s protective film.
And now I’m going to give them away!
Collaring our very own Matt Radford, I pressed him to try the Nokia N97 mini, the latest touchscreen offering from the Finns, albeit with a QWERTY keyboard as well. Below are his video impressions after two weeks with the N97 mini. Happy watching and happy Christmas!
In-app advertising has become more and more common in the iPhone world – it’s a great way for developers to monetise their apps and games while keeping the app itself free for users. But how does it all work, in terms of putting the right ads in the right apps to the right people? Following on from the Heroes of the Mobile Screen event in London, I tracked down Smaato founder Ragnar Kruse and got to the bottom of iPhone (and Symbian) mobile advertising. And if you’re a developer, Smaato.com is the place to try first for this sort of thing.
The new site has been in development for a few weeks. I wanted to bring you a fresher look, with more focus on the writing, and easier access to the popular posts and comments. There will undoubtedly be a few tweaks required to the new layout; if you notice anything awry, please contact me.
It also highlights the ways in which you can keep up to date with AAi – via RSS, email, and my Twitter updates.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the writers so far – Steve, James, Jim, Andy, Gideon, Jane and Adam. Your contributions are very much appreciated. Thanks to Jim for the CSS tweaks and Matlock for the new logo. And thanks also to you, the readers, for sticking around. I hope you enjoy what you see here.
Best wishes, and thanks for reading,
Matt
OK, so maybe I got out of bed on the wrong side this morning. Or maybe it was the chocolate cake that my daughter upended onto the kitchen carpet. Or maybe it was the frustration of wading through another couple of hundred applications, new in the iPhone App Store since yesterday. Either way, it’s been a bad day.
Of the 20,000 applications in the store, I can honestly say, hand on heart, that only around two to three hundred are actually any good at all. Add the same number again which are so niche that only a dozen people across the world might want them and you are left with over 19,000 apps which are completely and utterly pointless. Or rubbish. Or both.
But one app caught my eye today: Nothing.
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I got a shock today when starting up applications on my iPod Touch. Nearly every third party application was broken. Each quit back to the launcher after a second or so. After a few minutes panic and the usual restarts and soft resets (none of which worked), the penny dropped. I’d upgraded to iTunes 8.1 yesterday and the application problem was only since my sync. In other words, something in the new iTunes had blatted all over my applications.
In my year of owning an iPod Touch, this was my first real showstopping problem. But what to do? I’d be very surprised if this was a Touch problem – I’m guessing this is equally applicable to the iPhone as well. Half an hour’s Googling and I came across a reference to a similar problem encountered on a previous iTunes update by some users. I decided to try their solution – and also to try the iTunes/iPod backup system for real.
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Up until about a month ago, I’d been very impressed by the way the App Store app (if you see what I mean) kept me up to speed with updates to my installed applications. However, I’m now as wary of App Store’s claimed updates as I would be of a cornered lion…
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