Mar

24

A Great iDea - Ringtone Podcasts

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March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments

I am not a fan of the Teen-Buzz ringtone; I shouldn’t be, I am an adult. But the people who run the Teenbuzz blog have stumbled onto a brilliant idea. They have created a Podcast that delivers ring tones to your iPhone.
The idea is brilliantly simple. They simply encoded the sound files […]

Mar

21

PC and the iPhone - a Perfect Match

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March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

If you thought this post would be about your PC and iPhone suddenly working well together, then you would be mostly wrong.  If you thought it was about John Hodgeman, the fellow who plays PC in the I’m a Mac ads, loving his iPhone, then you would be both a psychic genius and correct.
If you […]

Mar

20

iPhone Users are Data Hogs

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March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

M: Metrics, an internet data collector company is reporting that the iPhone does, in fact, bring the real internet to its users.
According to a recent survey, they have found that iPhone users are surfing the heck out of the web. More than any other Smartphone on the market and much more than any traditional […]

Mar

18

iTunes $.99 Movie of the Week

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March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This week’s iTunes $.99 movie of the week is an oldie, but a goodie. Your movie this week is Escape from Alcatraz (warning - iTunes link). This week’s movie will be on sale until 25 March, 2008. Here is the official movie description:
Based on the true story of the only escape from […]

Mar

18

iPhone Ad - Does it Stretch the Truth a Bit?

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March 18, 2008 | 3 Comments

Here is an iPhone add featuring a devoted iPhone user. In the ad, the user states that she can update her blog in real time to keep the world updated on her dance studio. She makes the iPhone sound like a wonderful tool for mobile blogging and freelance writing.


I […]

Mar

17

How Accurate is your iPhone “Locate Me” Feature?

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March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The Google Maps app works very well, make no mistake, but the “locate me” feature, which is part of firmware 1.1.4, has mixed results. For me, when I am in my hometown, it is accurate to about 1 city block. In a large city like Denver, it is accurate to a few feet. […]

Mar

15

Google Takes a Jab at Apple and the iPhone

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March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Google is ramping up its impressive media engine to start touting its new phone and phone operating system Android. For those of you who hadn’t heard, Google is developing a mobile phone operating system that will run on a variety of different hardware pieces from a variety of manufactures.
So far, HTC, Motorolla, and Samsung […]

Mar

12

iTunes $.99 Movie of the Week

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March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This week’s iTunes $.99 movie of the week is the sci-fi classic Dead Zone (warning - iTunes link). This week’s movie will be on sale until 17 March, 2008.  Here is the official iTunes description:
Christopher Walken plays a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith, who awakens from a five-year coma. He discovers that he has acquired the […]

Mar

7

iPhone SDK FAQ Available.

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March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Have you pondered downloading the iPhone SDK? I tried, but the site was down yesterday.  I am going to try next week once the hoopla dies down.  While I was waiting, I did brainstorm some questions, and I found answers online. 
If you have any of the following questions, then you should check out the SDK […]

Mar

4

iTunes $.99 Movie of the Week

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March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Every week, for an indefinite amount of time, Apple and iTunes are running a $.99 movie rental special. You might remember me blogging about this a few weeks back.
This week’s (less than a) dollar movie is Changing Lanes (warning - iTunes link).
Plot Summary:
Director Roger Michell follows up the hit romantic comedy Notting Hill (1999) […]

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