Designing a great iPhone app

Click here to get a great insight into the design and creation of The Guardian iPhone app.

I particularly love the seriously loose layout scamps. Of course this may well be because they are done in a style quite similar to my own.

If however you want help producing more professional looking iPhone scamps then you need to click here and get yourself an iPhone Stencil Kit as pictured below.

Random idea of the week

This has to be one of the most random iPhone apps I've seen.

It's for Bell - a European meat & smallgoods company.

It lets you BBQ a Bratwurst in real time.

Why?

Who knows! Sure looks like fun though.

Best bit is that if you blow into the iPhone mic it makes the embers glow.

Like I said it's totally random. But fun none the less.

See right through emails

Until I got an iPhone last year I really couldn't see the point of accessing emails on your phone.

Of course now I'm an addict and check my mail on the go all the time.

Thing is when you walk and email at the same time it's very easy to bump into things.

Which is where Email 'n Walk comes in.

It's a clever (well kinda) new iPhone app that uses the phone's camera to enable you to see through the phone whilst you're composing an email.

To be honest I thought this was a spoof product when I first heard about it. Turns out it's real.

Can't tell you if it works as I haven't had time to sync my phone!