Just a few weeks back Google acquired reMail, a mail client for the iPhone. reMail could also do a full text search of all mails on your iPhone. And immediately Google took reMail off the App Store and announced that the product support would end completely within a month.
ModMyi covered this news today about how Google has relaunched reMail by open sourcing it. It has been released as a Google Code project.
Founder Gabor Cselle had been a GMail Fellow before going off on his own and starting reMail. He’s back on the GMail team now, and there had been worries when reMail was acquired and removed from the App Store thatGoogle was paying Cselle off in order to kill his project. Instead, this news validates reports that Google was making a pure talent acquisition to bring Cselle back to the Googleplex. Making the code available not only makes it virtually certain that the app will reappear in some form, it also will allow other devs to make use of reMail’s search refinements, as well as using it as a “skeleton” for other apps that can add services toiPhone Mail. Cselle said that his “hope is that developers interested in making email-related apps can use reMail code as a starting point.” Devs can now mine the reMail repository for code that downloads email via IMAP, parses MIME messages, and deals with attachments and data storage.
Yesterday Apple announced that the first version of iPad would be available from April 3 in the US. These models will use only WiFi internet connections for time being. The 3G connectivity versions which will use AT&T would arrive by late April according to Apple. FT covered this news:
Both types of iPad will also go on sale in late April in the UK, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, Canada and Switzerland, with other markets added later in the year.
With respect to the preorder and pricing, Apple said it would start accepting orders for the machines next Friday. Priced from $499 for WiFi-only editions with the 16gb capacity. The 3G iPads will range from $629 to $829, with monthly connectivity charges on top.
iPodNN has discovered something interesting in the iPod 3.2 SDK. The latest iPad SDK has additional search options that will allow you to choose Wikipedia as the default search engines for Safari on all of the 3 iPhone OS running gadgets, the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
The Wikipedia option would be unusual given that the site does not link to outside webpages, but rather articles from its own user-created encyclopedia. The site also has its own official iPhone app. It could make more sense for Apple to include other major search engines, such as Bing or Ask.com; future updates of the iPhone SDK may in theory expand the selection.
Its called the FLPR and it can transform your iPhone or iPod touch into a universal remote control. FLPR lets users control multiple electronic devices—including televisions, cable and satellite boxes, stereo systems, lights, ceiling fans and just about anything else that uses an infrared remote control. Launched by New Potato Technologies, this $80 gadget will be available on Best Buy stores very soon.
FLPR comes pre?programmed with over 14,000 remote control codes, including all major electronics brands.
FLPR purportedly has a database of over 14,000 pre?programmed remote control codes so works with hundreds of brands of devices out of box with no programming necessary. It’s also a learning remote. For example, if the remote control code for that old television in the guest bedroom isn’t in the extensive FLPR database, you can “teach” FLPR the code for that old relic, creating a brand new remote.
iPhone users have been using these WiFi apps to detect faster WiFi connections. Apple has taken all of those WiFi detecting apps from the App Store. Basically these apps seek out available Wi-Fi networks near your location. This news was originally covered on Cult of Mac. Apps removed by Apple include WiFi-Where, yFy Network Finder and WiFiFoFum.
“We received a very unfortunate e-mail today from Apple stating that WiFi-Where has been removed from sale on the App Store for using private frameworks to access wireless information,” WiFi Where-maker Three Jacks Software.
This will be the first unofficial Google Buzz app for the iPhone. Its called Buzzie and costs around $2 [App Store]. But I am not too sure if you would be willing to pay two bucks just get the web app with similar features in a native form.
Buzzie is the first iPhone client for Google Buzz, featuring the most polished interface for buzzing.
Features include:
- See what’s happening around you, even if you don’t have a Buzz account
- Receive messages from the people you follow
- Comment on messages and mark them as liked
- Browse all links and images attached to messages
- Manage your followers
- Browse the people following you
- Find new people to follow
- Check the places around you and buzz about them
- Buzz from your phone, publicly or privately
This cool little mod will remind you of Alt-Tab that you usually use to switch between last application running on your windows. Its called LastApp and is available for free on Cydia (jailbreak required). LastApps lets you quickly switch between the last two apps running on your iPhone.
To install this mod, launch Cydia and search for LastApp, and install it. You can set it do double-tapping the Home button activates, short hold of the Home button, or single press of Home button at SpringBoard. LastApp also supports “shaking”, you can shake the iPhone to toggle between two apps too.
Color Expert from Code Line is a powerful Color Wheel with an intelligent Image Palette and a Swatch Book. This $10 iPhone app puts the power of color into your hands. With updated features and user-interface, Color Expert 1.1 [App Store] is sure to streamline your workflow and keep you productive, no matter where you are. It has your favorite color libraries including PANTONE solid coated, PANTONE solid uncoated, PANTONE Goe coated etc.
Color Expert is an interactive color wheel and swatch library that helps artists and designers identify, translate, capture and showcase color.
Designers know inspiration can come anywhere at anytime. Now with Color Expert, you’ll have the tools to capture the moment, the moment a color captures you.
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Just a few weeks back Google acquired reMail, a mail client for the iPhone. reMail could also do a full text search of all mails on your iPhone. And immediately Google took reMail off the App Store and announced that the product support would end completely within a month.
