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Friday Roundup for October 10th, 2008 - iPhone tips submitted by you
This week, our readers share important advice on securing your iPhones to prevent data and identity theft. Without these, you are a lot more vulnerable than you think. We also learn a cool shortcut fo...
Whew! Pandora’s still alive, and now on Chumby
Pandora unleashes a torrent of music that outsmarts iTunes Genius in the form of a never-ending playlist that magically knows exactly what you want to hear. It’s an outright travesty we haven...
Smart and savvy grocery shopping with GroceryIQ, saves time and money
Let’s face it, grocery shopping is a chore for most of us. Shopping lists ease the pain a bit, but they still take time to write for each visit, especially if you want add specific details about...
Obama uses iPhone to rally his constituents
It’s not surprising that it’s always the younger political candidates who utilize technology to lend their campaigns more power through economies of scale. New technologies like social net...
Turn your iPhone into a video camera and join the new social network revolution
Video social networking is going mobile. Unfortunately, Apple has yet to allow third party app developers to access the iPhone’s video architecture to create video capture and streaming apps. We...
Atari joins the party with Missile Command and Super Breakout
Two Atari classic games are now available in the App Store. Atari is touting Missile Command and Super Breakout as “true evolutions of the original hits”. That statement is a bit of a stre...
If John McCain was an iPhone app…
Another summer has come and gone, but more importantly, this summer’s departure brings us a lot closer to November which is already shaping up to be one of the most historic presidential electio...
FlyCast, the internet radio tuner for iPhone and iPod touch
Some of you might recall Touchtip telling you about FlyCast earlier this year, an iPhone web app that streams digital music radio. This week, FlyTunes became FlyCast Mobile and is now available for fr...
Instant messages, free SMS, and social networking with Yahoo’s oneConnect
Just a single week after declaring our affection for Yahoo’s Search for iPhone, Yahoo throws a little more love our way with oneConnect, a polished communication app that combines SMS, social ne...
Freebie of the Week: Air Sharing
Here at Touchtip, we’re into storage, and I don’t mean zip lock bags or closet organizers. We’re talking data storage that utilizes the unused disk space on our iPhones and iPod touc...
Are you ready for some football? Watch it live on your iPhone or iPod touch
Dude. It’s the season opener of Monday Night Football, and it’s a double-header. Over six hours of glorious American football, watching 300 lb. millionaires slam into each other at full sp...
Shazam can name that tune, then serve it up with download links and more
Shazam is perfect for those moments when you hear a song but can’t quite put your finger on the name of the tune, nor the artist. It “listens” to music, then tells you the the artist...
Is Google Chrome coming to the iPhone?
Wow. Yesterday, Google unleashed a fall surprise in the form of a desktop application for Windows that instantly rekindled the web browser wars of yore. In the Nineties, the browser battle between IE ...
Lock down the information on your iPhone and iPod touch
When it comes to protecting your data on your iPhone or iPod touch, many people assume that the iPhone’s built-in password protection feature is good enough. This week, however, a gaping securit...
SugarSync for iPhone will sync everything but the kitchen sink
SugarSync originally launched in March of 2008 as a universal data syncing solution for users looking to keep data updated on multiple computers. Today marks the public release SugarSync’s nativ...
MotionX Poker - An instant classic iPhone game
Sometimes greatness can be achieved by combining elements from tried-and-true classics to create unexpected results. Think of the classic martini starting out as a glass of gin with an accidental spla...
Point, scan, learn, with ScanLife - tags for the real-world
Months ago, we caught wind of a rumor that ScanLife was going to create an iPhone app to enable bar code scanning using the iPhone camera. Sure, bar codes are nothing new, but we’re not talking ...
Turn your iPhone into a wireless storage device
The iPhone is great for storing your music and video files, but it doesn’t it allow you to store other types of files so that you can use it for data portability or back up. Curiously, this is o...
Quick tip: Calendar color fix for iPhone and iPod touch
One of the many new features introduced in the iPhone 2.0 update is the ability for the iPhone’s calendar app to recognize multiple calendars you have in iCal or Google calendar. If you sync your ca...
iPhone 3G tomorrow, but today… App Store!
The iPhone 3G will be finally be available Friday morning when the sun shines on New Zealand at 8 o’clock in the morning. Then following the terminator across the globe, Apple Stores will open t...
iPhone 3G confirms the rumors - Thinner. Faster. Cheaper.
After weeks of speculation and rumor-mongering, it’s finally official. iPhone 3G is Apple’s newest mobile phone that takes an already amazing device to a whole new level. Apple listened cl...
Online dating goes mobile with Dating DNA, now for iPhone
Mobile computing is destined to transform online dating and it’s obvious that the iPhone and iPod touch will be leading the charge. You would think that the online dating giants like Match.com a...
Snapture focuses on great iPhone photography
We know, we know… the words “great” and “iPhone photography” really don’t belong in the same title, but this new, free utility from Snapture actually does help you ...
New Jailbreak works for iPhone and iPod touch v1.1.4!
iJailBreak, written by a 13 year old hacker, now works on iPod touch as well as the iPhone for firmware 1.1.4. As a bonus for iPod touch, iJailbreak will also add the “missing” iPhone apps...
Friday Roundup for March 14th, 2008 - iPhone tips submitted by you
Hi-dee-ho! After a brief hiatus, the Friday Roundup is back! This week Touchtip readers have sent us some really great iPhone and iPod touch tips that we’d love to share with you. Don’t fo...
iPhone News Round Up - iPhone SDK rips hole in the fabric of time
Wow, things are happening so quickly. It’s only been a week since Apple officially released the iPhone SDK and already we are getting reports of new hacks and apps for iPhone 2.0 before it’...
Introducing iPhone 2.0
On the surface, Apple’s town hall meeting yesterday introduced the official release of the iPhone SDK, but the event was really much more significant than that. The SDK actually ushers in a new ...
Quickly move the data from your current phone to your new iPhone
Moving sucks, especially when you have to move data from one mobile phone to another. Manually having to input all of your calendar data, contacts, notes, photos, and more. It can take hours and hours...
iPhone and me? We’ve only just begun
I first met iPhone last July on a blind date. Steve introduced us. He instinctively knew we would hit it off. At that time I was already in a serious office relationship with Blackberry, but iPhone qu...
Turn your iPhone or iPod touch into an external storage device
We kind of expected Apple to give us the ability to use our iPhones and iPod touches as external storage devices by now, but that has not come to pass. We would love the convenience of dropping files ...