Ever since Ben and Mena Trott created Movable Type together so that Mena could blog and build a community, Six Apart has been about helping to get more people blogging. In order to do this we must produce optimized user experiences that take cutting edge technology and make it more accessible. We've been fortunate enough be recognized for our efforts in innovation and today we're introducing a free web application, Blog It for iPhone Powered by TypePad. Built specifically for iPhone's Safari browser, Blog It for iPhone enables you to post blog entries or status updates from wherever you are to more than a dozen different online services.

Blog It for iPhone is essentially the mobile version of our Blog It for Facebook application, which we launched in April. We've been thrilled with the response to Blog It for Facebook (see this ReadWriteWeb post for an example!), and love seeing people use it to create content and share it all over the web. And we also love making it better -- in May we added support for MarkDown so you don't need to write HTML by hand; and in June we added support for FriendFeed and Jaiku, to bring the total list of services we support to thirteen. Blog It now supports creating content on Blogger, Facebook, FriendFeed, Jaiku, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter, TypePad Vox, WordPress.com, and any WordPress.org site.

Blog It: Free blogging to any platform, from any iPhone

The Blog It for iPhone web application lets you post to your blog and update your status via one easy-to-use interface. Just like the original version for Facebook, you can choose to automatically share your post with people you know on various social networks. And Blog It for iPhone supports all the same services Blog It for Facebook does. To use Blog It for iPhone simply visit blogit.typepad.com from your iPhone or iPod Touch.

It's so easy that you don't even need to create yet another account; we've integrated OpenID for login to Blog It for iPhone. Our designers worked hard to try to keep it simple so that even if you don't know what OpenID is you'll still be able to just login with your account from Yahoo!. This also means that once you've chosen to link your accounts together, all of your existing settings from Blog It for Facebook will automatically show up on your iPhone and any changes you make will be reflected no matter where you use Blog It.

The Blog It for iPhone web application joins our existing iPhone-optimized TypePad site which we launched last year. TypePad bloggers can visit i.typepad.com from their iPhone to manage comment activity, create and publish simple blog posts and even check on site traffic statistics. To our beloved Movable Type users, we've heard you loud and clear: Blog It is a great way to post to Movable Type from your iPhone, or if you want even more features, you can check out the iMT plugin, which lets you manage your whole Movable Type blog from the device.

To round out blogging support for the iPhone, a native iPhone application for TypePad will be available for free at the launch of the iPhone App Store. TypePad for iPhone enables bloggers to instantly post photos from their iPhone to their blogs and photo albums on TypePad. Michael Sippey, Six Apart's VP of Products, demonstrated this new app during the keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference this week in San Francisco. Check out the video of the event; his demo starts at about the 30 minute mark.

We're certainly excited about all of the great new things we can provide to bloggers because of the iPhone's great web browser and powerfully simple SDK for native applications. Below are some screenshots of the new free Blog It for iPhone web application, and you can access it from Safari on your iPhone at blogit.typepad.com.

by David Recordon

When the 3G iPhone was launched, customers were disappointed about the battery life of the device. And for those who would mainly rely on their iPhones whenever they are on the road would not want a device that would easily ran out of battery. So here are some of the things that you can do to prolong the battery life of your 3G iPhone.


Buying a car charge would allow you to charge your iPhone wherever you go. Go to the official site of Apple Inc. and you can find cheap car chrgers for the iPhone. Some would even allow the users to listen to their iPhone music through the car’s speaker.

You might also turn off the 3G, Location, or Wi-Fi on your iPhone when you’re not using it. You might find it bothering to turn these features on and off every time you will use it and stop using it. But hey, it’s an effective way to prolong the battery life of your 3GiPhone.

A bright screen can also consume much of your 3G iPhone’s battery life. And as long as the brightness wasn’t turned down to far, you will not notice anything different in your screen at all.

Posted by Rob Goodchild

Facebook has issued an update to its iPhone application, offering more features and greater stability.

Main features include:

• Ability to write on friends' walls
• View all photo albums (not just the one attached to the profile picture)
• See full profiles
• Viewing of photo tags
• Faster photo uploading
• Ability to upload pictures directly from the iPhone

Available now: Facebook App

Posted by Andy Merrett

PageOnce launched as a web site earlier this year with a single focus, to simplify your online activity by aggregating your accounts into a single, secure view. We gave it test drive and liked it, but they were lacking a mobile interface so we didn’t get to tell you about it here on Touchtp.com. Today, we can gladly tell you that PageOnce has a free, native app waiting for you in the App Store and this is one gem of a download that you won’t want to miss.

The PageOnce app brings account aggregation to the iPhone and iPod touch, and the productivity gains you’ll experience will be like nirvana. PageOnce gives you a single page with all of your online accounts for banking, credit cards, email, MobileMe, social networks, bill payments, movie rentals, airlines, and on, and on, and on. You’ll have access to almost every online account you own with just a single tap. The days of signing into each account separately have come to and end, and that is wonderful news to our weary, tapped-out fingers.

Setting up PageOnce is a snap, but you’ll definitely need to do that from a desktop browser. Go to the PageOnce web site and sign up for a free account, then populate your account with all the online services you need access to. Then go to the App Store and download the PageOnce app for iPhone 2.0. Tap the app icon to run it then sign in with your PageOnce username and password. You can now access any of your online accounts without signing in again!

PageOnce supports so many online services that we cannot list them all here, but they are categorized neatly under Finance, Shopping, Utilities, Social, Travel, and Email. Wanna add your Amazon and Ebay accounts? No problem. How about your bank or brokerage accounts? Gotcha covered. You can add your wireless provider, including Skype and DirecTV, or your social networks like LinkedIn, Flickr, or Twitter, just to name a few. If you travel a lot, you can add your accounts for airlines, rental cars, and hotels. And, of course, you can add any number of web-based email accounts to monitor from your PageOnce view.

The number of internet services that PageOnce supports is very impressive and they are adding more to it all the time. If you don’t see one of your accounts listed in the admin tool, then you can send it in to the PageOnce team suggesting they add it to the growing list of options. Chances are, however, you find will more than a few of your online accounts available which will make managing your digital life that much easier.

PageOnce is committed to security and they even have a web page dedicated to that subject. They claim to provide military-level security, we’re pretty sure that means Kevlar armor instead of wicker. PageOnce has passed strict security audits by Verisign, TrustE, McAfee, and the Better Business Bureau. They knew customers would question security so they attacked that issue head-on and we feel good about it.

We love the single tap account access that PageOnce provides us on our iPhones, but the app does have its drawbacks. For one, the UI could use a little spit polish so that it feels more like an iPhone app. There a few issues with colors, fonts, and spacing. Also, managing your PageOnce preferences must by done on a desktop computer and the web site doesn’t seem to do very well in Safari, so use Firefox or Opera. However, these are minor nits compared to the overall value the app provides. It’s amazing this app is free because we’d gladly pay for it. It’s no wonder PageOnce earned a four-star rating in the App Store from its users.

By TouchTip.com

iRinger is a freeware tool for iPhone that lets you create ringtones free ringtones for your iPhone from virtually any music or video file you own.

After creating ringtones, it will automatically export them to your iTunes so that you can transfer them to your phone. It even supports for converting YouTube videos into ringtones!

Features:

• Three Steps: Import, Preview then Export. Done.
• Convert virtually any audio format into an iPhone ringtone
• Extracts audio out of video
• Choose which section of the audio you want to hear
• Adjust ringtone length, volume, fade in, fade out and loop gap
• Export to iPhone ringtone format and import right into iTunes
• Export to iPhone using SCP/SFTP and skip using iTunes
• Use audio effects: Delay, Flanger, Boost, Reverse, etc.

It creates ringtones in seconds, and the best part is that it’s completely free to use and does not require a broken jailbroken iPhone ;)

Download:

Download iRinger

by Haris