iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad

Here's a unique use of an iPhone. Jon Oxer added some hardware to his RX-8 which allows him to use his iPhone or iPod Touch as a remote car starter, GPS locater, performance monitor, etc. He does it by using a custom computer in the car to hook into the car's diagnostic port, with access to this over the G3 cell network. For details, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nInbHSFFG5k. You may wonder why I put this in a blog dedicated to Educational use of the iPhone. I see many applications in our Engineering college.

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OmniUpdate is providing a free webinar on Wednesday February 18 at 1:00pm CST called "Using CSS with Mobile Devices". While not specific to iPhone or iPod Touch, the information in this seminar is useful for designing web sites that are usable on mobile devices.

For more information see their Registration Page.

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This article from the Orlando Sentinel newspaper gives a good summary of the business opportunities for developers who build applications for the Apple Applications Store.

See http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-cover1909jan19,0,1823489.story

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The University of Saskatchewan Computer Science department is hosting a developers workshop for iPhone and iPod Touch developers in February called "iPhoneU". A great resource for anyone planning on developing applications for these devices.

For more information please see http://iphoneu.usask.ca/

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The Univeristy of Saskatchewan Computer Science department is teaching about the iPhone as part of its CMPT 436 class taught by Ralph Deters in 2008.

You can see the PDF documents for the lecture at http://www.cs.usask.ca/classes/436/t1/Notes/W11/iPhone.pdf

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