iMatrix is an iPhone/Touch native application + web application that adds QR Code reading/logging to the iPhone. QR Codes can dump data into Safari, Contacts, Google Maps, Calendar, Notes, or even initiate e-mails and phone calls. I know Asian phones have had this for quite a while, it would be great to see it grow in the US.Check out the official website for much more information.
Mobile OS X software development continues to impress me. These developers are doing some really amazing things with absolutely no support from Apple. iPhoneDave posted on Hackint0sh.com about the Lyrics application, a Japanese developed app that searches for lyrics to songs playing on the iPhone/Touch in real time. If it finds lyrics it displays them in real time, and saves them to a local library on the device. The application current pulls from three sites: KashiGet, Utamap, and Sing365.com. I’m not sure how difficult it is to expand the search to more sites, but hopefully the list will grow.
The application also has the ability to tie into a Mac Desktop Dashboard widget, but I haven’t investigated that functionality at all. I’m happy with using the application over-the-air on my iPhone. Check out the Google Code Project Page and the Hackint0sh thread for more information and installation instructions (some terminal commands need to be run before the application will run).
I love Spotlight for finding documents, but my application launcher of choice is still Quicksilver, mainly because of how I can additionally launch URLs and bookmarks instantly. About the only time I use Spotlight to launch applications is when Quicksilver crashes (alarmingly frequent with Leopard… running B53, not sure what the problem is).
Leopard made Spotlight much better as an application launcher by automatically putting your selection on the “Top Hit”, which will usually be an application if your input matches an application name. Spotlight never chooses the Quicksilver application as a “Top Hit” for me, instead choosing a document that has the term in it.I don’t have any proof that this is intentional on Apple’s part… but this behavior is consistent on both my iMac and my Powerbook. Every other application will come up as a “Top Hit”, regardless of what documents I have on my machine containing the same text, but Quicksilver never will. Is Spotlight biased against easily launching Quicksilver? Can anyone else verify the same behavior on their machines?