Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day

"We've just launched PMc, a personality-based women's fashion magazine exclusively for the iPhone," says the Hot Phone Hit Factory. PMc is the brainchild of New York fashion photographer Patrick McMullan and if he doesn't make a fortune he'll surely earn a footnote in publishing history for creating the first iPhone lifestyle magazine. Rainy Day handed over $0.99 and for that princely sum we got 400 of McMullan's photos, articles by Peg Samuel, Amanda Sterna and Malissa Mayers; an interview with supermodel Hana Soukupova and sculpture by Diana Al Hadid. Magazines for mobiles have arrived!

But the app we really love is the free Stanza, which turns the iPhone into an eBook. The "print" is clear and clean and you can set the lovely Georgia font to whatever size you like. Instead of turning pages, you "cover flow" with a finger swipe and the reader can also bookmark pages. From the 40,000 titles available, Rainy Day picked Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton and downloaded it via Stanza from Project Gutenberg. According to Chesterton, the purpose of the book is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." This is ideal preparation for our entertainment tomorrow evening.