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My three iPhone Apps have been updated. They are waiting for a review now. The biggest point of this update is supporting iOS 4 multitasking. You’ll see them soon.

If your application doesn’t care for launching and terminating of it, you just compile and build it on newest SDK and it can support iOS 4. If your application needs to care for the lifecycle, you should add some source code for entering foreground and background. Especially you should pay attention to save some user data. Moreover you can add higher resolution icons, then your application supports Retina Display of iPhone 4. It must look more beautiful.

If you’re unwilling to support iOS 4, it’s important for lots of users to optimize your applications for iOS 4, the current OS. Enjoy your development!

My second iPhone App “SpeedMemo” has been released on App Store. You’re able to download this app here.

Have you ever forgotten important ideas or to-do list? “SpeedMemo” is application specialized in taking the memo fast. You can take memo as soon as it starts up. After you save memo, you can e-mail memo, tweet it to Twitter and save it on Evernote.

It supports the latest technology of Evernote. You know, Evernote launched “Emailing Into Evernote Just Got Better « Evernote Blogcast“. It’ very easy to save everything on Evernote.

Please try this new app and review it if you like.

My first iPhone App “Translator - in your hands” and “Translator Lite - in your hands” have been released on App Store. They are very simple applications. You’re able to translate lots of languages from your native language with these apps.

“Translator Lite” is free, and helps you to translate quickly. It supports Google Translation Service and Microsoft(Bing) Translation Service, and you can select them as you wish. If you are foreign language learner, it must help you. Please try it.

“Translator” is paid application. It has bookmark, Twitter and mail supports. You can bookmark the result of translation if you think the result is good. Twitter support makes you to tweet the result directly. It’s very easy operation. If you have many chances to mail with foreigners, it must be great time saver for you.

The back-end of these iPhone apps use Google App Engine with Python. Google App Engine is one of the best platform as a service in my opinion. It’s easy to control the scalability of apps even though it’s difficult to move apps on it into other platforms like LAMP. I need to learn it more.

I’ve got Moleskine that is one of the most famous memo pads. It has squared grid and is small size. Frankly speaking, I didn’t like a memo pad and a schedule book because I used them for just a few months from new year day. Especially, I’ve never paid attention to them at all since I bought iPhone.

However, I’ve noticed that all my ideas are based on only texts or photos because of using iPhone and Evernote. At least my ideas exist in my brain with having form, figure and graphic; so I needed to transform from figure into text purposely. I may waste my limited time.
For those reason, I think I have to output my ideas as naked as nature intended. Having a pen and writing with my hand is the best way to provide ideas in my opinion. Let’s get started with Moleskine.

iPhone has over 20,000 apps so far and many people including not geeks use it all over the world. What does it mean for Apple? Apple has got lots of platforms to drive themselves and develop their products.
The platform of product is very important for many companies. It makes money though it costs much to build it. Especially contents platforms such as music, movies and games are very strong. Once you release a product on the platform, you just focus on producing impressive contents for users. Of course you need to update your products as well as contents increase.
Apple have got at least five platforms so far : music, movies, games, applications and computing. And they have connected with each other efficiently. You’ll notice that the connection works on just one application; iTunes. We can sync all of our contents through iTunes with operating very easily. It’s not too much to say that iTunes is Apple’s platform. They are going to realize everything on the platform. What will they do next? We’ll see.

We made a reservation of new iPhone 3GSs last week, and then we got them. The black one is mine and the white one is my wife’s. I’m deeply concerned with DoCoMo that is a carrier we’ve had connection for over 9 years. Mobile Number Potability in Japan is very easy to use for us. We needed just 1 hour for the processing of getting iPhones.
If you want to know the goodness of iPhone, you may visit the other blogs. I write the bad points of it for ordinary people like my wife below.

• When we reply with IMAP mail, we have no choice except the quotation.
• We can’t configure the e-mail sounds in detail.
• It’s hard to understand whether i.softbank or SMS/MMS we have to use.
• We can’t check received e-mail writing new e-mail.

In my opinion, they are not really matter without using it everyday. I’m looking forward to how my life will be changed with iPhone 3GS.

AKG-K450

AKG Personal Audio - K 450

AKG K 450 has unique 3D-Axis² folding mechanism, clear audio quality, and good design. I got it at the end of last year. I carry around it all the time and wear it while commuting on a train. This is the headphone that fits my iPhone .
It’s a pity that my ears become painful after I wear it for long time. I’m looking for new earphone that I use at home right now.