Embed iPhone and iPod Touch Applications In Your WordPress Blog

Posted by Alin Irimie on October 20, 2009

As PcMagazine put it, “uQuery is to the App Store what Google is to the Web”. After allowing people to create an account and mark the applications they like or they own, today, even more good news: uQuery,  just released a WordPress plugin allowing you to easily display an iPhone/iPod Touch application details in your blog. It is easy to use, you just need to know the app store application ID, which you can find it on uQuery.com (the number in the URL when you go to an application page).

If you don’t have a WordPress blog, you can still create a widget yourself, by clicking on “Get Embed Widget Code” in an application details page on uquery.com, then copy and paste the generated code in your blog Check it out!

You can download the widget here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/uquery-widget/. The little widget looks like this (Facebook iPhone/iPod application details)

A Search Engine for the iPhone AppStore

Posted by Marcio Castilho on September 02, 2009

With over 70 thousand new applications for the iPhone & iPod Touch on the iTunes AppStore, it is no doubt that Apple hit the mark there. With the tremendous success of this new emerging developers platform it is becoming really hard for end users to find the application that they want to install in their devices. We need a solution to enable a more smooth App discovery process, because finding for application inside iTunes is really terrible and slow.

This is what uquery.com is doing to help all the iPhone fanatics to easily find new applications. Continue reading…

iPhone Console for EC2 1

Posted by Alin Irimie on February 04, 2009

DirectThought, a New York Based company, is working on a native iPhone application, named directEC2 to access and control Amazon’s EC2. You’ll be able to keep tabs on your EC2 resource (instances, volumes, etc.) using this application running on your iPhone. Because it is a native application, it doesn’t rely on any other server. All you rely on are your iPhone, Amazon’s servers and your internet connection. This application is under development and has been tested on the iPhone and iPod touch.

This application uses a toolkit called cTypica which is an Objective-C version of the popular typica Java toolkit for AWS. This will be released under the Apache 2.0 License to enable others to gain access to Amazon’s service from their own iPhone applications.

There’s no indication when the application will be released.

Bellow are some screenshots of the application in action. Continue reading…