iPhone now does fadas!

Good news and bad news.

First the bad news. I don't see any international keyboard selections as predicted in my earlier post.

Now the good news: It doesn't matter! According to Daring Fireball, you can now press-and-hold a vowel and get a fada with iPhone software 1.1.1! Yay. I tried it and it works.

"Tivo for radio": Listen & record Raidió na Gaeltachta

A fantastic new application.

It's called Radio Shift. Just click on the link to go to Rogue Amoeba's web site and download a free trial.

Here's a screen shot (click to view full size):



Of course, it's only available for the Mac. :-)

iPhone as Gaeilge?

As much as I love my iPhone, it has one drawback: You can't type in Irish. Well, you can't include fadas. Well, it will display them fine if you go to a web page or get an e-mail with fadas in it. But there's no way to enter them on the keyboard when you're typing.

iPhone Atlas is reporting that the new iPod Touch does support non-US keyboards (and, thus, presumably accents and fadas and whatnot). So the hope and expectation is that an iPhone update will get the iPhone up to the capabilities of the iPod Touch.