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Rate RunPee Bathroom Break Tool Releases iPhone App [Downloads]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Thu, Jul 2

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By Azadeh Ensha iPhone/iPod Touch only: Remember previously mentioned RunPee.com, the ingenious website that tells you when to head out for a bathroom break during a movie so you don't miss any good parts? Now the site has released its first mobile version for iPhone users.

Rate Google Voice is Cool, But Do You Need It? [Phones]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Lifehacker external link    Wed, Jul 1

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By Kevin Purdy Have or want an Android phone: iPhones, BlackBerries, Symbian-based models, and Windows Mobile devices will likely get Google-built apps for integrating Google Voice into their dialing, voicemail, and SMS interfaces. But Android phones already have an impressive third-party app f...

Rate Turn a Cheap iPhone Case into a Tripod [DIY]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Lifehacker external link    Wed, Jul 1

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By Jason Fitzpatrick By combining an inexpensive case with some very basic and cheap parts off the shelf of his local hardware store, Scott Patrick made sturdy tripod mount for his iPhone. Check out the video below: Found Footage: Inexpensive do-it-yourself tripod mount for iPhone [The Unofficial Apple Web...

Past Month

 

Rate Apple TV 2.4 Updates, Adds Flick Gesture Support and Other Features [Apple TV]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Wed, Jun 24

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By Azadeh Ensha Apple TV today released its 2.4 software update, featuring flick gesture support for controlling your Apple TV via the iPhone/iPod touch Remote application and other newly added features. Control your Apple TV with simple finger gestures via the Remote app. This feature requires Remote...

Rate This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Fri, Jun 19

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By Adam Pash The iPhone 3.0 software update hit servers a few hours ago, and we spent our afternoon playing with every new feature we could find. Step inside for a look at our favorite new iPhone 3.0 features.Turn Old CDs Into a DIY iPod Dock The upgrade to Mac OS X Snow Leopard will cost $29 for current Leopard...

Rate Enable Tethering and MMS on Your iPhone 3.0 [IPhone]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Thu, Jun 18

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By Adam Pash One of the more frustrating things about iPhone 3.0 is that a couple of its best new features—namely MMS and tethering—aren't available to AT&T users. As it turns out, you can trick your phone into turning on both features. I have Tethering and MMS on my iPhone — and Yes, I'm on AT&T [Aa...

Rate Opinion: Hands On with iPhone 3.0's Best New Features [Screenshot Tour]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Wed, Jun 17

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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...

Rate TweetDeck Adds Multi-Column iPhone Client, Account Syncing [Downloads]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Wed, Jun 17

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By Kevin Purdy TweetDeck is a free download for iPhones and iPod touch models through the App Store, and via the Adobe AIR platform on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. Click through the screenshots below for a bigger look at TweetDeck's iPhone client and multi-account desktop integration.

Rate Remains of the Day: Firefox 3.5 Does Crazy Things with Video Edition [For What It's Worth]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Lifehacker external link    Wed, Jun 10

By Adam Pash Yesterday we pointed you toward a handy car accident checklist; Now State Farm has released an iPhone app that streamlines your accident reporting from the comfort of your phone. The even made a funny video. [State Farm]Demo: FireFox 3.5 Treats Videos Like Web Pages. Why Can't Flash Do That?

Year 2009

 

Rate Remains of the Day: iPhone 3GS, Snow Leopard, and Other WWDC Announcements Edition [For What It's Worth]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Mon, Jun 8

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By Adam Pash iPhone OS 3.0 Available on June 17th Lots of new features—like data tethering and MMS—are slated for iPhones in the 3.0 update. Unfortunately AT&T won't be ready to handle any of them when iPhone 3.0 is released.Everything You Need to Know About Snow Leopard

Rate CardStar Creates Scanner-Friendly Bonus Cards on iPhones [Downloads]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Thu, Jun 4

By Kevin Purdy There are advanced options that let you customize the barcode style and even reverse the number order, but most of us are going to get by fine with just tapping in a few numbers. Looking for a non-iPhone card consolidation tool? Try our previously covered condenser KeyRingThing. CardStar i...

Rate Six Best Exercise Planning and Tracking Tools [Hive Five]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Sun, May 17

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By Jason Fitzpatrick RunKeeper (iPhone, Basic: Free/Pro:$9.99) RunKeeper turns your iPhone into an exercise tracking tool. Once installed you can monitor your speed, how far you run, and track your route on a map. You can review your data on the iPhone itself or upload the data to the RunKeeper website for analy...

Rate Lifehacker Laptop Bags: Adam Pash Edition [What's In Our Bags]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Thu, May 14

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By Adam Pash I'm all about this Belkin Mini Surge Protector with built-in USB charger (original post). It's got three plugs for your three-prongs and two dedicated USB plugs for your iPod/iPhone/etc. It's a little bulkier than I expected when I bought it, but it's a brilliant little portable charging...

Rate The Five Best iPhone Apps for Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions

Original at Lifehacker external link    Wed, Jan 28

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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...

Rate Opinion: Most Popular How-To Features of 2008 [Best Of 2008]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Thu, Dec 11

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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....

Rate Best New and Improved Software of 2008 [Best Of 2008]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Tue, Dec 2

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By Gina Trapani What with the App Store limitations and Apple's insistence on ruling over what you can and cannot do on your phone, it's not surprising the enthusiastic "jailbreak" community soldiered on this year, continuing to offer installers and non-Apple-approved applications for your iPhone...

Rate Best Android Apps to Boost Your Mobile Productivity (So Far)

Original at Lifehacker external link    Mon, Nov 3

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By Gina Trapani Turn any MP3 on your phone to a ringtone without touching your desktop with Ringdroid. Using the app you select the start and end of your tone on a song timeline, and preview it before you save. (That sound you hear is iPhone owners eating their hearts out while they manually sync ringtones fro...

Rate QuickPwn 2.1 Hits Windows

Original at Lifehacker external link    Fri, Sep 19

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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]

Rate Five Best Calendar Applications

Original at Lifehacker external link    Thu, Sep 11

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By Adam Pash Microsoft Outlook is the de facto calendar and email application of most of the corporate world, which leads many to the "it's only popular because Microsoft forces it down everyone's throats" conclusion. However, with Exchange server support, email integration, Windows Mobile sync...

Rate Jailbreak iPhone 2.0 on Windows with WinpwnVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Lifehacker external link    Thu, Jul 24

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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...

Rate Jailbreak iPhone 2.0 with PwnageTool

Original at Lifehacker external link    Mon, Jul 21

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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 :

Rate Set Up Push Email, Contacts, and Calendar on Your iPhone for Free

Original at Lifehacker external link    Tue, Jul 15

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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.

Rate Opinion: How Your Location-Aware iPhone Will Change Your Life

Original at Lifehacker external link    Thu, Jun 5

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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...

Rate iPhone Apps Worth Jailbreaking For

Original at Lifehacker external link    Tue, Jun 3

 CA - Jun 3, 2008 Regardless of whether Apple's upcoming iPhone and iPod touch App Store is a bang or a bust, there will probably always be a demand for alternate methods of ...

Rate Opinion: Turn Your iPod Touch into an iPhone [Feature]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Lifehacker external link    Tue, Apr 15

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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...

Rate Opinion: Jailbreak Any iPhone or iPod Touch in 45 Seconds [Feature]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Fri, Mar 21

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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...

Rate The 20 Best iPhone and iPod touch Applications [Feature]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Thu, Jan 3

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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...

Year 2007

 

Rate Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPod Touch with One Click

Original at Lifehacker external link    Mon, Oct 29

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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...

Rate Google Calendar and Google Reader are now ... [Mobile Webapps]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Tue, Sep 25

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!

Rate Install Third-Party Applications on Your iPhone

Original at Lifehacker external link    Mon, Sep 3

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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...

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