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I was just browsing Ars Technica, and I came across an exclusive review of Papers for the iPhone. For those of you who are not familiar with Papers, it’s a program geared towards the mac-using scientific community. It allows you to take all of your PDFs, organize them into a single folder and display them in an interface similar to iTunes. Papers has become very popular where I work, not only does it organize your PDFs, but it also allows you to search PubMed and many other scientific sites. The iPhone app looks great so far, you can view any PDF, download new articles from wherever you are, and also sync your PDFs with your desktop version of Papers (though version 1.9 of the Desktop app is required, and at this moment is not available). I really see Papers for the iPhone being a must have app to accompany the desktop version. Here is more info on the App. It can be purchased from the App Store for an introductory price of $9.99.

Settings Are in the Settings App

An interesting view into why the settings for iPhone apps are in the Settings App by the developer of Tweetie (my favorite iPhone Twitter app). The article points out two problems with the way settings work on the iPhone. One is that third party developers cannot access their own code in the Settings app itself, which keeps them from fully utilizing the settings app. The other issue is that developers are choosing to bypass the settings app altogether, in favor of building the settings within their app. Unless Apple changes the SDK for third party settings, most will use their iPhone the wrong way.