Amazon has a new iPhone app in the wild. It’s interesting because it lets you take a photograph of something and then it tries to find a product on Amazon.com for you to buy. At first I thought it was some incredible algorithmic photo processing awesomeness like SnapTell.
Upon looking into it I discovered it’s just a front end to their Mechanical Turk system. You get results in 5 minutes to 24 hours. Of course this is not even close to fast enough.
It’s a free download in the app store.
[Amazon Mobile iTunes App Store]
OmniFocus on your iPhone or iPod touch. Synchronized with your Mac via .Mac or WebDAV. Live. Automatically. Over EDGE or WiFi. Location aware:
OmniFocus for the iPhone brings task management to your fingertips. Keep track of actions by project, place, person, or date. Bring up a shopping list, agenda items to discuss at work, tasks for home, and any other lists you need.
Using your location, OmniFocus can create a custom list of actions to complete nearby. Buying groceries? OmniFocus can show you the closest grocery store and create an instant shopping list.
Capture tasks anywhere, anytime with OmniFocus: you can enter text, take a picture, or even make a quick voice recording.
Synchronize OmniFocus with your Mac using the OS X version available separately from omnigroup.com/omnifocus.
[43Folders | Omnifocus iPhone Version]
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