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Cocktails on the iPhone

Cocktails, on the phone: the future is truly here!

Photo from spiritsandcocktails.com

Cocktails--my absolute favorite iPhone app, both for reference (while at the store, looking to buy everything I need to make a cocktail) and for browsing fun--just got a recent upgrade. Along with the usual bug fixes, speed improvements, &c., they've added a new collection of recipes, which they're calling the Contemporary Masters series:

Our inaugural release includes a generous 78 recipes from Seattle mixologist Jamie Boudreau. We’re confident you will find in his recipes a rich trove of fresh ideas and techniques. In another first, we’re implementing in this release our first real batch of ingredient recipes: formulations for extraordinary ingredients you make yourself, ahead of time.

The drink I'm most excited to try is the Twelve Five Cocktail, a mixture of scotch, absinthe, Punt e Mes, and Benedictine.

Nike+ and iPhone

The leaked screenshots for the upcoming iPhone Nike+ interface almost make me excited enough to start running again:

We've known that Nike+ has long been in development for the iPhone. Now we're finally getting a peek at the first shots of the interface. From what we can skim, Nike+ users will get all of the nifty performance graphs right on the phone (before this stuff was available on the web only).

And! Google Maps integration for running routes, which may be my favorite part of all.

iPhone Home

My favorite iPhone trick, which I only just discovered yesterday, is the ability to control the iPod functions (volume, play/pause, &c.) without having to unlock the phone:

If you double click the "Home" button from "Slide to unlock" screen or when the iPhone is in sleep mode, a set of iPod controls will appear below the clock which give you access to play/pause, skip, and volume controls.