One of the biggest complaints about the App Store is that is really difficult to find new and innovative apps for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Whilst Apple have a Featured and What’s Hot section within their App Store, the organic searching of apps is predominantly down to the name of the app, not the features it possesses.
Luckily there are quite a few websites on hand to help clear the confusion around App Store searching, the newest of them being a service called uQuery, with their self proclaimed tagline: The AppStore Search Engine.
On 07.27.09, In iPhone/Android, by Milton
Are you tired of having to sync your iPhone/iPod Touch with iTunes just for one song? Mewseek is the solution to all your problems. Formerly known as iSlsk, MewSeek is a P2P application for your jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch.
A lot of iPhone users are frustrated with the lack of access to the inner workings of their mobile phone. Sony Ericsson and Nokia users have long had the ability to plug their phone into their computer and simply move files to and from the device with the minimum of fuss.
To access files on their iPhones, most users will use iTunes to upload and download their photos, music and ringtones. A small selection of iPhone users however have noted that on a jailbroken phone, they can SSH into their device and manipulate files that way.
What would you say if there was an easy way to upload and download files with an Explorer type interface? The good news is there is just that software available and I will show you how to use it.
A few days back we showed you how to upload videos from your iPhone 3G, today we are going to show you to how to enable the percentage battery indicator that is present on the new iPhone 3GS.
This tutorial will require you to have previously jailbroken your device. If this is something you aren’t willing to do then you will not be able to make the changes suggested by this article.
The tutorial for the battery indicator can be found after the jump.
The Apple iPhone has changed the face of mobile computing and the mobile phone industry as a whole. With the ability to scale the device to perform (nearly) every task you can throw at it, the unit has sold out the world over when it has launched it’s newest incarnation.
The latest release, the iPhone 3GS (the “S” being for speed), was billed to be at least four times as quick as it’s 3G counterpart, render webpages quicker and also boasted a few technological advances, most namely; Video and a Compass. This video functionality brought with it the ability to edit and upload videos directly to YouTube, causing a boom in user submitted video content on the service.
The downside of the new release was that early adopters were not really catered for when it came to upgrading, meaning many would have to wait to enjoy the new features. If you are familiar with the term “Jailbreaking”, I have some good news for you, it’s is very easy to mimic the 3GS functionality without spending a single penny.
When using email on your iPhone, there is the option to add nearly every email service available except one service that over 270 million people world wide still use: Hotmail. Until recently, you needed a third party application to access your Hotmail email until Microsoft, in a bid to take on Google’s Gmail, enabled POP3 access for it’s users.
What this has allowed users to do is have the opportunity to add Hotmail to their iPhones with just two easy steps. This article aims to show you how to do just that.
When Apple released their iPhone and Google modified their applications to be compatible with the device, the missing feature always seemed to be the ability to sync your online Google Calendar (gCal) with the built-in iPhone calendar, wirelessly.
Third party apps such as NemusSync offer this functionality but I have always been a little protective over my Google Account details, so I wanted a more secure and “official” way.
Luckily, Google stepped up to the plate and switched on support for Google Calendar sync, using the Exchange option on the iPhone itself. Here is a small guide to setting it up on your device.
On 01.28.09, In Useful Software, by Matt Brian
One question that springs to mind when I am visiting a webpage for the umpteenth time to download the latest version of an application is: “Why isn’t there one centralised place for software update notifications?!”. Lots of pieces of software have in built updaters, but most don’t and rely on you physically checking to see what software needs updating.
Today I wish to share with you five tools (across all platforms) that will allow you to check, at a glance, what software needs updating and where to get them from.
1. FileHippo Update Checker (Windows Only)
FileHippo Update Checker is a Windows only tool that sits quietly in your system tray. It works by scanning your computer for installed software, checks the versions and then sends this information to FileHippo.com to see if there are any newer releases. The results of the scan are displayed in your browser, along with the links for you to download.
On 01.28.09, In iPhone/Android, by Matt Brian
Finding the right text editor for your needs can be a frustrating experience. On a Windows machine, I swear by Notepad++, an app we reviewed last month, for it’s clever features and lightweight filesize. If I am ever installing programs on someone’s Mac, I will always suggest the inclusion of Smultron, an equally powerful editor with the all important price point: Free.
Smultron is designed to work perfectly for a whole variety of needs, including internet programming, script editing and to do lists. All socuments open within the application are ordered on the left hand sidebar, a la iTunes, enabling you to copy and paste code from one document to another without having to select different files from your dock. If that doesn’t work for you, configure the application to display them in tabs, it’s all down to the user.
Today I am pleased to announce a new feature on WillINeedIt.com; Vodcasts. I can hear the collective mutterings around “What is a Vodcast?” so let me clear things up a bit for you. A Vodcast is a video specifically created for iPod users to be able to view on their iPod’s or iPhone’s and can be subscribed to via iTunes.
WillINeedIt.com have partnered with Dave Day over at MacVideoGuides to bring you tutorials on how to do absolutely anything with a Mac! Today’s episode concentrates on giving a quick overview of GMail IMAP and shows you the correct way to setup Gmail IMAP on OS X’s Mail.app and the iPhone/iPod Touch.
You can view the video below and in the future Vodcast links and subscription buttons will be added.
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Update: iTunes subcription links below:
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