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Words for iPhone

I’m delighted to announce the release of Words, my second app for the iPhone.

Words is designed to assist you when solving Scrabble and WordScraper types games, crossword puzzles and anagrams.

The interface is clean an intuitive. Simply enter the letters you have in your rack, or those you already know from the crossword and Words will provide you with a list of possible words.

Crossword mode

If you enter “A?E”, Words will return all words beginning with A, ending with E with a single letter in the middle.

Scrabble mode

Searching for “A?E” will return all words which contain an A and/or an E and/or any other letter.

Words currently uses the SOWPODS dictionary.

Watch out for future free upgrades with additional dictionaries and functionality.

Airports – My First iPhone App

I’m pleased to announce the release of Airports – my first iPhone App.

Airports is a database of over 9,000 worldwide airports, searchable on IATA, ICAO and Airport Name.

The app is free (ad supported) and I have many plans for future enhancements.

It’s not searchable on the App Store yet (Apple take an age sometimes, but that’s a story for another day) – use this download link to get the app.

Update: Airports is now available from iTunes. Search for Airports and look for the free one from Mark Avey.

10,000 apps and going strong

148Apps (a terrific iPhone apps site, by the way) reports that’s there are now 10,000 applications in the iPhone Apps store.

To celebrate, they’ve build an “icon wall” representing every app, which must’ve taken some doing!

This is quite an achievement for Apple and all the developers out there. One can only imagine how many there will be in another 12 months, although how many are actually worth installing is another matter.

Linux on the iPhone!

iPhone Atlas reports that “A group of developers, led by someone using the handle “planetbeing,” have produced a method to load Linux 2.6’s kernel to the iPhone.”.


iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo.

I’m not quite sure of the appeal of this just yet, apart from the “it can be done” challenge, but it may be something keep an eye on once they get drivers issues etc resolved.

Google Earth for iPhone released

I’ve been waiting for this one since I got my 3G iPhone!

Here’s the story from the Google Blog:

Even before we introduced Google Earth back in 2005, the team had long dreamed of being able to carry the Earth around in your pocket. Well, today that dream becomes a reality as we introduce Google Earth for iPhone and iPod touch. With just a swipe of your finger you can fly from Peoria to Paris to Papua New Guinea, or anywhere in between. It may be small, but it brings all the power of Google Earth to the palm of your hand, including all of the same global imagery and 3D terrain. You can even browse any of our 8 million Panoramio photos or read Wikipedia articles.

With Google Earth for iPhone, you can:

• Tilt your iPhone to adjust your view to see mountainous terrain
• View the Panoramio layer and browse the millions of geo-located photos from around the world
• View geo-located Wikipedia articles
• Use the ‘Location’ feature to fly to your current location
• Search for cities, places and business around the globe with Google Local Search

It’s available today in 18 languages and 22 countries in the iTunes App Store. To learn more, check out this video tour and read the blog post on the Lat Long Blog.