Further Adventures in Navigation Down Along the Boarder!
Or how CoPilot regained its place on my iPhone. Okay…after the disappointing performance of the actual maps on both Navigon and MotionX Drive (see the paragraph in brackets on maps near the end of the previous post) in use along Expressway 83 in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, a certain continuing disappointment in the responsiveness of Navigon in daily use (though I reported it was responding more quickly by the time I got to the Valley it was back, in most cases, to its old sluggish self), and some interesting quirks in MotionX UI, I felt it was only fair to reinstall CoPilot Live and see if they had a map update. They did. In addition, I d

Adventures in Navigation Down Along the Boarder
Or how CoPilot lost its place on my iPhone. Mobile Navigator for iPhone Let this serve as a kind of Public Service Announcement for any of you who have been following my reviews of turn-by-turn navigaion apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch. I have own three at this point: Navigon MobileNavigator, CoPilot Live 8, and MotionX GPS Drive. MotionX is a great little app. I may do a full fledged review one of

CoPilot Live 8 Updated
CoPilot Live 8 Just a quick note to say that CoPilot just released an update that, most noticeably, adds iPod controls within the app. They are also saying improved GPS performance…but I never noticed any lack in that area in the previous version. One thing I did note is that computer text to speech voice now says 3 tents of a mile instead of point three miles…the poin

WordPress 2 for iPhone/iPod Touch
Okay. I tried to use the first version of WordPress for iPhone a few times, and though it was superior to the other blogging apps I tried, it was not all that usable. Version 2 (a new app, not an automatic upgrade from the first version) is much improved. I would still not choose to create a complete blog entry on it: it still lacks essential features like links, sty

MobileRSS: great “one trick” app
MobileRSS from Nibirutech One of the best features, IMHO, of the iPhone platform is that it encourages simple little one trick apps. MobileRSS from Nibirutech is a simple client for Google Reader. That’s it. That is all it does. But it does it’s one trick so well that I am actually using Google Reader on my iPhone and enjoying the experience.