Category: iPhone
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Check Out Alltop Podcasts
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlltop just launched a new podcasts category. You can find it at: http://podcasts.alltop.com/ It looks like they are initially focusing on NPR and business-related podcasts, as opposed to the technology podcasts that I am typically subscribed to. After looking at Alltop Podcasts, I subscribed to: The Web 2.0 Show Startup Story…
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How to Create iPhone Ringtones from TV Show Soundtracks Using Audio Hijack Pro and GarageBand ’08
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe other day I was looking forward to watching NHL playoff games, and started thinking about how much fun it would be to watch Hockey Night in Canada on the CBC instead of Versus. I went over to CBC.ca and watched the HNIC Playoff Preview Show on the CBC Sports Video Player.…
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Free iPhone Wallpaper #1: Go Phillies
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the past few months, I’ve admired the free iPhone wallpapers that Scott Bourne has published over at The Apple Phone Show. While I was driving back and forth to the USA Hockey Girls’ Nationals last week, the thought occurred to me: Why not unlock the Operation Gadget photo vault and…
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How the iPhone Salvaged Our Trip to Friendly’s
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had an iPhone experience tonight like the ones that make users of other mobile phones jealous. Kathleen, Jimmy, and I decided to go to Friendly’s for ice cream after dinner. We showed up at the Langhorne location only to find a standing-room-only crowd waiting for tables. We were quoted a 20-minute…
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The iPhone Camera Seems to Excel at Taking Photos in “The Golden Hour”
Reading Time: 2 minutesKathleen, Jimmy, and I went to Roberts Ridge Park in Newtown Township earlier this evening so that Jimmy could play on the playground there. While we were at the playground, a man began flying a kite. This attracted Jimmy and another boy who is about the same age. I took out my…
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L.A. Times: iPhone Users “Know Too Much”– Huh?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSaturday’s Los Angeles Times carried a front page story that made the argument that iPhone users know too much because they tend to use the Internet capability on their iPhone to answer questions that used to go unanswered in everyday conversations. The article claims that people who don’t use iPhones find…
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Apple Phone Show Host Saves $5750 on a New Car By Using His iPhone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteScott Bourne, the host of The Apple Phone Show, saved $5750 on a new car that he just purchased by using his iPhone during the negotiation. It looks like the most productive uses of the iPhone were recalling email correspondence that had occurred between him and the dealership, and verifying the…
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Gadget Links: Not What We Expected Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutesMac Automation: listen to a text document on TUAW: “Don’t have time to read that Word, Pages, or TextEdit document at your desk? Why not listen to it on your iPod instead? In this Automator how-to, I am going to show you how to create an audio file using text that you…
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Gadget Links: Stuff I Should Have Posted a While Ago Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutesTopeak Mini 6 on CoolTools: “This incredibly compact, bike-oriented multi-tool has five different sizes of Allen wrench plus a Phillips screwdriver head, all of which folds up into a little pod about the size of a walnut. Sometimes I’ll carry it in my pocket or toss it in shoulder bag; mostly I…