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By Kevin Purdy Firefox, Safari, and Chrome on the desktop support a few of the styles and features outlined in HTML5's draft specifications, like offline storage, canvas drawing, and, most intriguingly, tags for audio and video that allow sites to stream multimedia files directly into a browser. App...

By Kevin Purdy With his smartphone mount, Ethan can track his progress via GPS, get turn-by-turn directions in unfamiliar neighborhoods, and even take phone calls—audio or video—from his handlebars. If you had an Android phone, you could utilize the fitness data dream of My Tracks, or give RunKeeper...

By Whitson Gordon Use a AAA Battery as an iPhone Stylus Logan shows us a quicker way to use touch screens in the winter: 1. Go to Settings –> Labs, find "Add any gadget by URL" and activate it. 3. Go to Settings –> Gadgets, enter the gadget URL into the text box and click Add.

By Adam Pash Rumors fly that Google will soon release their own phone build around Google Voice (not just another Android handset), the upcoming Chrome for Mac beta will be lacking several important features, and Gmail's creator thinks Wave could someday integrate nicely with Gmail.

By Adam Pash Apple has just pushed out an update for all iPhone generations in the form of iPhone OS 3.1.2. Don't expect any major feature updates in this 241MB download, but do expect a few fixes to some...

By Jason Fitzpatrick If you're looking for a web-based application for scheduling meetings, you'll find no shortage. Want that application to sync to common calendar applications like Google Calendar, Outlook, and iCal? Prior to Tungle you were out of luck.

By Kevin Purdy 6. Share music with friends and coworkers If you hear someone with a killer tune playing from their own hard drive, they can usually be cajoled into sending a copy your way. But what if they've brought that track in on their MP3 player? Grab a copy of DoubleTwist for Mac or PC, hook up their phone...

By Adam Pash Camera/Photos tweaks: Your Camera and Photo apps both saw some minor but cool feature updates. Pictured, you'll see that the Camera app now sports a tiny thumbnail of the last picture you took that, when tapped, takes you to your Camera Roll. When you're sending, copying, or deleting photo...

By Kevin Purdy Here's our list of five apps that make tracking, remembering, and motivating your resolutions easier than willpower alone. All of them (except RunKeeper) run on both iPhones and iPod touch models. That's our flight of five apps, but we want to hear what free or paid iPhone/iPod apps work fo...

By Adam Pash When the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software update hit devices this summer, users were thrilled that they could enjoy Apple-approved third-party apps on their hardware—but that doesn't mean they don't want to have their cake and eat it, too. Our guide to jailbreaking your iPhone running 2....

By Adam Pash Mac users got their QuickPwn on a week ago for iPhones running the latest 2.1 software update, and now the latest version of the iPhone-jailbreak tool is also available for Windows. Happy jailbreaking! [via]

By Adam Pash If you don't feel like you're getting all you can from the iPhone App Store and other perks of the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software, then jailbreaking is for you. We've already shown you how to jailbreak your iPhone 2.0 on a Mac, but yesterday the Windows version of the iPhone jailbreak tool—c...

By Gina Trapani As per the very helpful Mac OSx86 blog: People with old iPhone V1 (2G) will need to download this firmware from Apple : iPhone 2.0 (5A347) firmware for 2G (10121)People with new iPhone V2 (3G) will need to download this firmware from Apple :

By Adam Pash Now any time you update your contacts from Address Book, just head to the Sync Now option in your menu bar. Once you do that, check out your contacts on your iPhone and you'll see your newly synced info automatically pushed to your iPhone. Nice.

By Adam Pash Google has already begun incorporating geotagged photos in Google Maps, giving users a more personal look at locations than the birds eye or even street views can offer. Again, jailbroken iPhone users can already install an application called iFlickr that geotags your photos as you tak...

By Adam Pash Now that you've got that, start up your FTP client of choice, enter the IP address as you server, and use root for your username and alpine as your password. Once connected, navigate to the Applications folder (just above the root folder). That's where your iPhone and iPod touch keep all of th...

By Adam Pash Quit iTunes. (This may not be strictly necessary, but it's a good practice.) Choose the option that applies to you: iPod touch jailbreak or iPhone jailbreak. ZiPhone will cycle your device into recovery mode, perform the jailbreak, and in 45 seconds your iPhone or iPod touch will be officia...

By Adam Pash Last week we showed you how to install third party apps on your iPhone or iPod touch, and since then a new firmware preview has leaked its way to the 'nets with saucy new features that—once released—may tempt you to abandon your jailbreak for the newly introduced features. Fact is, until the...

By Adam Pash Jailbreaking the iPod touch/iPhone is now an utterly simple, one-click affair—which means if you've been waiting to jailbreak your iPod touch or iPhone (since the 1.1.1 firmware upgrade), the time is now. Just point your Safari browser to http://jailbreakme.com/ and click the Install Ap...

By Tamar Weinberg Google Calendar and Google Reader are now iPhone (and iPod Touch) friendly and Gmail has also undergone a graphical user interface overhaul which looks great on the iPhone, too. Thanks, Ian!

By Adam Pash In less than two-months time, a persistent and merry band of iPhone hackers have been pushing out application after killer application for the iPhone, and hacking your iPhone to install those applications has become dead simple. Today I'll show you how to download, install, and manage t...