Friday, August 17, 2007

Free iPhone Movie Downloads


Getting an iPhone can mean a lot of great things, but unfortunately another thing it usually means is that your wallet’s going to be pretty empty for a while. The cost of the iPhone itself coupled with all the "upkeep" expenses can get pretty pricey. Some of it you’ll have to be resigned to...but there are a few things you can do to lower your costs, and one of the biggest ones is to find your downloads for a lot cheaper.


Be honest with yourself: with a beautiful, shiny new iPhone, you’re going to want to have lots of multimedia files to play on the go. With the iPhone pretty much dominating as the best portable handheld media player on the market, it would nothing short of a regrettable waste to NOT have a large selection of hot music, movies, and tv shows to play.


Now, there are plenty of places to get your downloads...but some of them are pretty expensive. I mean, look at iTunes. It’d probably be your first choice to get iPhone downloads, because it’s only natural that two Apple products would go well together. I don’t blame you for thinking of iTunes first, Apple’s done a good job linking their products and services together.


But are you aware that iTunes charges a dollar a song? Okay, okay...so it’s "under a dollar." Like one cent makes all the difference. Still, 99 cents a song is highway robbery. I don’t even know what that translates into in terms of videos and movies...but if they think 99 cents a SONG is fair, I shudder to think of what a movie would cost.


But hey, if you have the money to throw away on iTunes, especially after buying a $500 or $600 iPhone, be my guest. For the rest of us who aren’t in Rich-Land, there are other alternatives.


Now, there ARE plenty of other downloading sites and services out there, but the ones that aren’t illegal are usually rather expensive as well. Finding a really good one that makes it worth not settling for the convenience of iTunes can be a little difficult.








Which is really why I’m even writing this article: to share with you a site that WON’T break your bank or get you busted by the Feds. In fact, the downloads themselves are free and unlimited for life. All you have to pay for is the software, kinda like Limewire...only reliable. Anyways, you can get more information at http://hubpages.com/hub/iPhone_Free_Downloads



Thursday, August 16, 2007

10 Awesome iPhone Accessories PC Magazine - Find Articles

10 Awesome iPhone Accessories

PC Magazine, July, 2007 by Jennifer L. DeLeo


We did it. We survived. The Apple iPhone hype is over. No more waking up in the middle of the night in cold sweats, thinking that we missed the release. No more grabbing for our asthma inhalers or keeping caffeine close at hand. Yes, we made it through the iPhone storm. Sigh.

If only it were true. This is likely just the beginning, with the hundreds of iPhone accessories we’re bound to see in the coming months. Heck, even before the device was released there were plenty of iPhone cases and Bluetooth headsets for sale. Lucky for you, we’ve rounded up a slew of awesome iPhone accessories, so that you can get the most out of your $600 device immediately.

Here are a couple of the products you’ll find in today’s 10 Awesome iPhone Accessories slideshow:

Apple iPhone Dock The first thing you’ll want to do when you pick up your shiny iPhone is charge it and add some music to its onboard memory. Apple’s iPhone Dock ($49) can be connected via USB port for syncing or charging. Plus, you can use the audio line out to hook up your stereo and listen to the tunes you store on the device. Also included in the package are an Apple USB Power Adapter and Apple Dock Connector to USB Cable.

Incipio Technologies Bikini This summer, slip your iPhone into something sexy, like Incipio Technologies’ Bikini . It’s a leather case that covers "the bare essentials," meaning the top and bottom of the device. The case comes in 14 unique colors, including safety orange, chocolate, and army ranger. Each Bikini sells for $19.99.

Top 10 iPhone Apps PC Magazine - Find Articles



Top 10 iPhone Apps






The world’s smallest Mac is about to get a lot bigger. Passionate developers have cracked the code to write true native applications for the iPhone, beginning a new era of true binary development for the ground-breaking handheld computer.


There’s only one problem: Apple wants to forbid these developers from doing what they do best. Yes, in the iPhone’s topsy-turvy world, real software development is forbidden-what developers are supposed to do is put together Web "applications" that can be hit by the phone’s Safari browser.


Fortunately, programmers have been pretty ambitious there, too. Web "apps" may not have quite the power and punch of native applications, but they can keep you busy with simple games, let you access gigabytes of music and video, or add instant-messaging to a device that desperately needs it.


One warning: using some of these apps tends to make your iPhone rather toasty warm and completely guts your battery life. If you’re streaming a lot of content over Wi-Fi (say, through Glide or Seeqpod) expect to get no more than a few hours’ use of your iPhone on a charge.


As we scoped out our top iPhone apps, we kept in mind that we’re PC Magazine . So almost everything in our list is Windows compatible. Here are our picks for the Top 10 iPhone Apps—or, in some cases, PC apps to go with your iPhone.

Do you have an iPhone yet?

Do you have an iPhone yet?


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by malkassem @ http://www.online-central.net
iPod + Phone = iPhone

June 29th Apple released the new music player iPhone. After a long time waiting, people camped outside of stores 2 or 3 days to make sure that they do get an iPhone! Was the wait all worth it? Others may think "iPhone" what happened to iPod? Well iPhone is an iPod, but it also has a phone/PDA in it. New slim sleek sharp futuristic look that plays music, movies and more. With this amazing product, you can not only store music and video files, but also your contactsm, email, appointments, photos, and manage your iTunes account. You can also recieve phone calls on it... This 4.8 ounces device, you can have it all. The iPhone touch screen provides the user a great conviniece access to all the features without a click of a button. The screen changes the direction based on the way you are holding your phone (side ways or upwards).

iPhone - Phone:

You can use the phone by either dialing the number from the touch screen keyboard or by a smart find in you contact list, call log, or favorite list. You contact list can be syncronized from your PC or Mac, you can either add it directly on the iPhone or on the computer and you will end having in it on both. The voicemail features is also so cool. Your voicemail becomes like email. You can pick and choose which ones you want to listen to in the order that you want. It is even called VISUAL VOICEMAIL!!!

iPhone - Internet & Email:

iPhone provides instant connection to your email. You can use iPhone to check your POP, IMAP and other mail services. You can send and recieve email messages in text, rtf, and HTML formats. That way you can see the pictures inline with the text. Also, links in emails are hyper links that you can click on to browse. Phone numbers as well are links to dial the numbers.

iPhone is also powered by a Safari web browser that give you access to your favorite websites. You can zoom in and out the text just by moving or tapping your fingers on the touch screen... really really cool...

Also, do you just love youTube.com or what. iPhone is the first wireless device that comes equiped with a youTube player. You can search and play youTube videos direct from a contained software that comes by default with your new iPhone.

iPhone - iPod:

iPhone works just like an iPod with some cool extra features. One of the cool feature is searching through your albums. The albums show on the screen as CD cases (very cool visual design). You flip throughout the CDs and then you can click on the one you want to hear to play it. More over, you can play moveis on the nice widescreen. You can zoom in and out as you want.

iPhone - Available Accessories:

iPhone Bluetooth Headset
iPhone Dock
iPhone Dual Dock (iPhone and bluetooth headset dock)
iPhone Stereo Headset
AirPort Extreme Base Station (extended wide range wireless reciever)
iPhone TTY Adapter
Apple Dock Connector to USB Cable
iPhone Universal Dock Adapter 3-Pack
iPhone Bluetooth Travel Cable (Bluetooth charger and USB sync cable)
Apple USB Power Adapter (Home Charger)

iPhone - Technical Specifications (Per Apple):

Size and weight

Height: 4.5 inches (115 mm)
Width: 2.4 inches (61 mm)
Depth: 0.46 inch (11.6 mm)
Weight: 4.8 ounces (135 grams)

In the box

iPhone
Stereo Headset
Dock
Dock Connector to USB Cable
USB Power Adapter
Documentation
Cleaning/polishing cloth

Capacity

4GB or 8GB flash drive1

Display

3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen multi-touch display
480-by-320-pixel resolution at 160 dpi
Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Operating system

OS X

GSM

Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

Wireless data

Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
EDGE
Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

Camera

2.0 megapixels

Audio

Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Audio formats supported: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

Video

Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Headphones

Stereo earphones with built-in microphone
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Impedance: 32 ohms

Mac system requirements

Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
iTunes 7.3 or later

Windows system requirements

PC with USB 2.0 port
Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate Edition; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later
iTunes 7.3 or later

Environmental requirements

Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)

Input and output

iPhone
30-pin dock connector
3.5-mm stereo headphone minijack
iPhone Dock
Dock connector
Power and battery
Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery
Talk time: Up to 8 hours2
Standby time: Up to 250 hours3
Internet use: Up to 6 hours4
Video playback: Up to 7 hours5
Audio playback: Up to 24 hours6

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

iPhone Hacks & Software – Getting Closer to iPhone Unlocking

With the iPhone news of the Apple launch, the number of iPhone hacks has increased exponentially and a great deal of energy has been put into working through the iPhone software to find where the passwords and the “glue” is for a number of apps. The “Holy Grail” at the moment is iPhone unlocking.

iPhone unlocking is in fact most requested hack, and unlocking means that the iPhone can be used on any network and not just AT&T’s. There have been a couple of claims to have managed this iPhone hack ultimate but so far it’s all just rumors though it seems that a couple are indeed getting close and have managed to gain ownership of the file system. Sieving through the iPhone software and especially the gif images that are embedded seems to be the number preoccupation of any self respecting iPhone hack merchant around the globe.

One writer at GigaOM claims that they have gotten all the iPhone functions working except the telephone, voicemail and text features. To be honest I don’t see the point in all of this, getting an iPhone hack to unlock the beast is not going to be of much use unless you use the iPhone overseas and on top of that you’ll have no 3G support.

Where I do see a value in getting the iPhone software opened up, is that once we have the iPhone unlocked then being able to use the device as an ultimately portable minicomputer working over a wifi network then we have something that’s going to be useful.

On the iPhone news grapevine, it’s not just iPhone hacks that are streaming in thick and fast, there are also a series of full-blown web apps which I have to say is pretty impressive – well done guys! Probably the best one at the moment is the iPhone hack “iChat for iPhone” which provides you with IM capability on AIM. More than that, the iPhone software source is available for this hack and you can host it on your own machine. If you are really serious about keeping up-to-date with the latest in iPhone unlocking and iPhone hacks then check out the iPhone Dev Wiki that seems to me to be the closest to getting an iPhone unlocking hack.

iPhone software that you can download onto your new iPhone can be found at iPhone Applications on the web. Here you’ll find all iPhone software and applications such as iWeather and more games than you can shake a stick at. Unfortunately, until we get iPhone hack that will open up the iPhone to third party applications we are going to have to make do with Apple iPhone software that we’re allowed to play with at the moment.

How long before we have an iPhone hack that will help us unlock the iPhone completely is like asking how long is a piece of string, but with the energy that is being devoted to it, I guess it could be any day now.

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