iStethoscope Pro turns your iPhone into a stethoscope, allowing you to listen to your heatbeat and see your heart waveform, or listen to other quiet sounds around you.

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Developed in collaboration with cardiologist researchers. Used by cardiologists for research on heart disease as described in the Journal of Medical Devices. For best results:

1. Use good quality headphones (heart sounds are often too deep to hear using the white earphones).
2. Press the microphone in the bottom of an iphone 3G or 4 to your chest. A good place is the apex of your heart (below your left nipple).
3. Place the microphone directly against the skin, not through a shirt.
4. Take the iphone out of its protective case if you use one.

Six modes of operation:

1. Mute
·Heartbeat pure (uses a clean low-pass filter to help 3G iphones work better, and to provide better clarity of sound).
·Heartbeat filtered (uses filters to enable you to hear your heartbeat clearly)
·Conversation (uses filters to make voices clearer and other sounds quieter)
·Clear Sound (minimal filtering to allow you to hear all quiet sounds)
·Accelerometer (maps G forces to audio to allow you to hear subsonic vibration.)
2. Plus:
·Shake-activated phonocardiograph! (Give the iphone a shake and listen to the last 8 seconds while watching the phonocardiograph display.)
·Email the audio. (On the phonocardiograph display screen, press the envelope in the corner and email your data. It’s also a handy way to store your data locally in a folder of the Mail App.)

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Google has tweaked its iPhone Google Mobile App for the iPad, optimizing it for the device’s larger screen.

The revamped app, at its core, is the same as the existing iPhone Google Mobile App that offers mobile search tools such as search by voice and search by My Location, which uses your device’s location for local business searches. The big iPad optimization takes place with Web apps like Gmail, Google Reader, Maps, and Buzz.

Google says its Web-based apps are now much easier to navigate on the iPad, such as Gmail, which was recently optimized for iPad as well.

Google says it is also working on improving its application to take advantage of iPad-specific features. However, Google did not specify which iPad features it wanted to exploit or when the next version of its iPad-optimized search application would be coming out. But earlier this month, a post on the Google Mobile Blog said the company was “excited about the promise of tablet computers” like the iPad because of the form factor’s “larger touchscreens, increased portability and rich sensors.” The blog post then highlighted Google’s new HTML 5 iPad-optimized Gmail Web app that uses a double-pane layout similar to some native iPad applications like Contacts and Mail.

Given Google’s preference for Web apps and cloud-based services, it’s likely that any further tweaks to Google’s iPad services will be focused on better Web applications as opposed to improving its downloadable program for iPad and iPhone.

So far Google is the only major search provider to place an iPad-optimized search application in the iTunes Store. Bing has an iPhone application that is usable on the iPad, but Microsoft has yet to produce anything that is specifically for the iPad. If a Bing for iPad application ever does show up, it would be nice to see Microsoft unify some of the company’s other Web-based services into one application including Hotmail, Windows Live Calendar and SkyDrive.

Source: Pcworld.com

Start counting your fingertips for Apple ipad release date. The iPad is finally coming to an Apple store near you. As Apple announced last week, the device will go up for sale on April 3rd. You know we are getting close to an Apple release date when Apple’s marketing machine starts coming up with fun commercials. Its first commercial during the Oscars generated quite a buzz around the Web.

This revolutionary gadget can be used to surf the Web and read newspapers. Besides, the best thing of all is that it can also read book at a go, a feature that is not available with kindle that first produced by Amazon.

The arrival of Apple’s iPad will no doubt make the market more competitive with several companies trying to control price. Technology mavens are of the opinion that this would trigger a price war. However, Apple die-hard users have crowded its web site to place order. For the time being it is only being sold in American market. And it is limited also. Some 190,000 orders have been placed till now. But the company is not in a position to ship all its accessories that come with the iPad.

Apple’s most celebrated iPad is expected to make a sales of 3 million to 4 million in its first year. The device has already been accepting a great number of pre-orders from customers as Apple started pre-booking last week.

In addition, you can choose from over 1,50,000 apps in the App Store including entertainment apps, productivity apps, social networking apps, games, and more. iPad works with almost all of them. So if you already have apps for your iPhone or iPod touch, just sync them to iPad from your Mac or PC. They run in their original size or you can expand them to fill the iPad screen.

We know that Apple gadgets are much more tempting..So when are you planning to purchase an iPad?

Apple released a pair of software updates, offering improvements for Aperture users while also updating iMovie to improve its ability to use video from Aperture.

Aperture 3.0.2 weighs in at 69.83 MB and requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or 10.6.2. It offers a significant number of improvements throughout the application.

This update improves overall stability and fixes issues in a number of areas. The key areas addressed include:

• Upgrading Aperture 1.x and 2.x libraries
• Importing libraries from iPhoto or from earlier versions of Aperture
• Importing hierarchical folders of photos into a library
• Adding names and confirming matches in Faces
• Reordering snapshots on the Faces corkboard
• Creating and saving print presets
• Duplicating metadata presets
• Adjustments using Curves, Straighten and Retouching
• Navigation of photos in the Viewer using scrolling
• Importing ratings, color labels and GPS data from XMP sidecar files
• IPTC metadata compatibility
• Deleting photos when emptying the Aperture Trash
• Exporting versions and libraries

Full details of the over 65 changes included in the update are available in the release notes.

iMovie 8.0.6, weighing in at 35.84 MB and requiring Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later, “improves reliability when working with videos from Aperture” and is recommended for all iMovie ‘09 users.

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Testing is a procedure of technical investigation that is intended to reveal quality-related information about the product with respect to the context in which it is ordained to operate. App testing is an essential process that comprises part of the application development life-cycle. Through testing you can analyze how your developed application will perform in a real-world environment by installing and testing it directly on iPhone or iPod touch.

iPhone testing is more or less similar to website testing. Website testing involves various kinds of testing like; functionality testing, GUI testing, security testing etc. Similarly we check the iPhone application for its functionality, display of the various images and content and data protection. In website testing, for detecting security issues, we use the following techniques: -

• Penetration testing.
• Password cracking
• URL Testing
• Virus Detectors etc.

Whereas the security testing of iPhone app testing is done in a different manner. Following features can be adapted for the security of the iPhone apps: -

• Encryption
• Remote Wipe
• Local wipe

In website testing we check for the scalability of the website that include stress testing and load testing. In this we check the performance of the website when subjected to various kinds of load by the users. On the contrary, iPhone applications are free from such kind of testing modus operandi, as the application has to be uploaded on a single device.

In the iPhone applications we focus more on the memory issues as many of the non-reproducible bugs you come across while testing iPhone apps are related to memory problems. It is quintessential to know and report available free memory before launching an application. Consequently, a crashing defect may vanish when there’s plenty of free memory available.

A1 technology’s iPhone application Quality Assurance team verify applications in its entirety and test the functionality of each setting related to the application. The team works in close co-ordination with the application developers to identify and resolve all crash points. Our testing experts test the behavior of iPhone app in low connectivity mode and verify proper behavior.

A-1 Technology’s quality analysts measure the memory usage of the application to determinate all memory leaks and test the application in the sleep mode. The iPhone Quality Analysts possess the expertise to resolve all the testing issues and ensures that your applications run smoothly.

For more information on iPhone Application Development please visit www.iphonesoftwareprogramming.com

Say you’re at the store and realize you need a bigger car to move the furniture you just bought. Or you just found out that you have to pick up a client for dinner tonight. Zipcar will help you find a bigger or swankier or whatever else kind of car you need anytime, anywhere. Even if your plans are last minute, you can make or cancel reservations right from your iPhone or iPod touch.

Zipcar, a widely used car rental service, has raised the bar with tech-savviness with its new iPhone app, which launched in the App Store this week. Available for free, the Zipcar app automatically lists nearby Zipcar locations on a map. Tapping a location pin displays cars available for rent, as well as their rental fees.

Reserving a car is as easy as clicking one big green button, and the app allows you to sort available cars by time, type and model to make it easier to find the one you want. You can see your upcoming reservations and cancel a car if you don’t need it after all. A fancy feature is called “Drive,” where you can tap buttons to unlock, lock, or even honk the horn of your rental car.

Once you get to your car, you can use the virtual keyfob to help find it in the garage by honking the horn (nice touch); while you still need to use your RFID-equipped Zipcard to activate the car’s remote unlock and ignition system, once you do that at the beginning of your reservation you can put it back in your wallet and use the iPhone to lock and unlock the car. You can also extend your reservation from the iPhone app, as long as there’s open time after your slot ends.

One somewhat quirky thing about the app is that there’s no way to adjust your reservation time window except at the ‘top’ of the car search process; often as not, with the Zipcar website, you may find yourself tweaking the hours of your booking to improve your chances of finding the car you need. The lack of flexibility is noted on the app’s iTunes page under “Coming Soon,” so a future release will probably improve matters here. The Zipcar app requires iPhone OS 3.0 and works on the iPod touch as well, although most features will require a network connection.

Zipcar members are almost as enthusiastic about the service as iPhone owners are about their devices, so this combination is sure to strike sparks. Once you’ve got the Zipcar app downloaded, let us know your road trip experiences via the comments below.

Right on the heels of the iPhone 3.0 firmware update, Apple has released a beta version of the iPhone SDK 3.1 to developers. Although the SDK is still in the testing phase, Apple included approximately 15 new OpenGL tools for 3D modeling and graphics, according to MobileCrunch. VideoEditorController and Video Picker APIs could allow third-party apps to bring up the video editing interface.

Reports suggest the SDK also enables MMS by default, although the added functionality will still require support from AT&T in the US. The beta is said to include XCode and Dashcode updates as well.

Developers will likely find more changes and expanded functions as they have a chance to dig deeper.

Source: Macnn.com