Results tagged “iphone”

charlieontheradio has a great photo taken with his iPhone. Our initial impression on seeing the photo was that it came from a Holga, or similar camera with it's overly saturated colors, and vignetting. The contrast of red on green, and the subtle veins of the leaf are appealing, and help remind us why many consider this the best time of year in New England.

-- Did you see a giant pothole near Chinatown? There's an iPhone app for that. [CNET News]

-- Bostonist again barely misses Time's "Top 25 Blogs" list. [Time]

-- This week's edition of the little man vs. the MBTA features folding chair discrimination. [b0st0n LiveJournal Community]

We covered the launch of BusRyda, which provides mobile MBTA info, last week. The service has already expanded to include a Trip Planner that will help you find out how to get from one particular place to another. Designed with the iPhone in mind, BusRyda also works on other mobile phones. Bostonist talked to BusRyda founder Eric D. Fields, who has a closer connection with DMX than you might think. Read on to learn how toast played a critical part in the creation of this fine new service.

Knowing when your bus is scheduled to come doesn't always help, as many routes are all too often hopelessly off the mark. Just this Sunday evening we saw two #1 buses tailgating each other around Harvard, from where they were supposed to leave 20 minutes apart. Sigh. But for those of you who retain hope that buses may occasionally arrive when they're intended to, the new service BusRyda has come up with easy mobile alerts that are better than the MBTA's.

Me2Bus claims to get bus schedules on your iPhone. We're not sure how it's better than the MBTA site--beyond being cleaner and probably quicker-loading--but it's worth a look for you fancy iPhone-having types. (Via Universal Hub.)

Worcester's American Sanitary Plumbing Museum has decided to flush itself out of the city, but it's not going into the crapper just yet. The museum will relocate to the more appropriately named Watertown. Worcester might consider this development perfectly potty, but at least the collection is staying in Massachusetts.

Political junkies have divided the last few months between obsessing over Iowa and New Hampshire and complaining about how much energy is wasted obsessing over Iowa and New Hampshire. Those states, the argument goes, are too white and too small and too rural to represent the country at large. But, while true, it always seems dismissive and elitist (possibly because we're writing this on a iPhone while stopped at a light in a Prius Zipcar.)

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas's only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did...

Blogtoberfest Tonight, Thursday, October 25, 2007, 6:00-8:00 pm The Pour House, 907 Boylston St., Boston Official site Jenny Frazier is holding a gathering of the Boston bloggers tonight, and it promises to be a blast, if last year's event was any indication. Well, there might be a few awkward silences as bloggers (Bostonist included) make the scary transition from online friendship to in-person friendship, but that's what beer is for! If you are a...

There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and...

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their...

What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly, freedom to blog. Here are a few things we're happy we've been free to blog about this week. Being the nation's capital, DCist felt especially proud to let freedom ring this week by exposing the really important issues, like how sad they...

An employee of the Cambridge AT&T store, which was selling iPhones, said his store sold out of the fascinating new gadgets in one hour flat, between 6 and 7 pm last night. He said that people didn't get too crazy, but a few people started their iPhone vigil at 11pm Thursday night. Boston NOW asked local comedian and Dig columnist Baratunde Thurston, who is kinda pissed with his iPod right now, what he thought of...

As the world holds its breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning.

Plenty of fascinating news this week for our oft-neglected New England neighbors:

We at Bostonist like our Apple computers. Ok, it does distress us a little to hear that our shiny iPod might have been produced in a sweatshop. But, if we turn the volume up really loud, we forget all about it. If you want to hear the latest Apple talk from four local enthusiasts, then MassMUG is the podcast for you.