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Essential back-to-school iPhone apps to enrich the mind - Part 1
Most students are at least a few weeks into this new school year, and many have already discovered the benefits of using the iPhone and iPod touch as a study tool. Aside from the apps that serve as ba...
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...
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...
Free App Store gem - Access all of your online accounts with PageOnce
PageOnce launched as a web site earlier this year with a single focus, to simplify your online activity by aggregating your accounts into a single, secure view. We gave it test drive and liked it, but...
App Store’s free Instapaper app - a must-have utility
We already told you about Instapaper, the magnificent bookmarking web app that you can use from your desktop browser or on your iPhone or iPod touch. As you browse the web and find content you donR...
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...
myBudget makes tracking your expenses quick and easy
What secret tips and techniques are there that average people can learn from to maintain a financially healthy lifestyle? The creators of myBudget believe they have the answer, a rather simple common-...
Too many social networks? Get it together with FriendFeed
If you do any social networking with your friends or colleagues online, then you know what a pain it is to check all the sites to monitor their activity. You have to go to each site, sign into your ac...
Harvest your time and expenses, and stop bleeding money
The release of iPhone 2.0 and the AppStore is just around the corner, and they are certain to bring a flood of amazing new native applications in a broad range of categories. A new class of business a...
PearBudget lets iPhone users take control of their finances
Wouldn’t it be great if you could enter your receipts right into your iPhone right when you make a purchase and then have that information automatically reflected in your monthly budget? With Pe...
Capture, sync, and find everything from anywhere with Evernote (more invites!)
Not long ago, we introduced you to Evernote, a killer application that syncs your notes between your desktop and your iPhone without any Jailbreak or hacking required. This week, Evernote released a s...
iPhone tip - Use Google Reader’s iPhone interface in your desktop sidebar
Last week we told you about the update to Google Reader that brings its iPhone interface closer to its desktop sibling. If you use Google Reader on the iPhone as much as we do, then you’ll prob...
New Google Reader beta improves iPhone experience
Google has updated its iPhone optimized version of Google Reader making it the absolute best way to read news feeds on the iPhone. You can expect a bevy of native RSS apps to flood the App Store in Ju...
Friday Roundup for April 18th, 2008 - iPhone tips submitted by you
Tax day has finally come to pass and Friday is now upon us. That means we deliver another batch of glorious iPhone tips submitted by you, the totally awesome readers of Touchtip. This week we have som...
This little tweak turns Backpack into a must-have productivity app for iPhone and iPod touch
We gotta hand it to Justin Michael for creating a cut-and-paste code snippet that turns Backpack into a must-have app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Adding value to Backpack is not an easy thing to do...
AOL’s surprisingly great search utility for iPhone and iPod touch
Whoa, we didn’t see this one coming. Sphere, software that connects contextually relevant content to your content, has been acquired by AOL for a rumored $25 million. Sphere was originally a sea...
iPhone tip for travelers - Tripit, don’t leave home without it
Travelers, listen up, if you own an iPhone or iPod touch and do any kind of traveling whatsoever, you absolutely need to use Tripit. This must-have travel tool is free, and now that it’s optimiz...
Friday Roundup for April 4th, 2008 - iPhone tips submitted by you
This week’s Friday iPhone tip roundup includes some great advice sent in by the readers of Touchtip. Our post last week about the invites to the EverNote beta was very popular and we still have ...
iPhone tip - Instapaper simplifies reading on the web
Here at Toucthip we spend a great deal of time reading on the web. In fact, we read so much that our system for marking web pages for reading at a later time has completely failed us. Browser bookmark...
An iPhone portal with free iTunes music, games, and much, much more
Sure, we know that web portals are soooooo nineteen ninety-eight, but we also know that the iPhone age is breathing new life into these destination sites, especially when they are optimized for the iP...
Evernote - powerful note taking software for desktop, web, and mobile
We just discovered Evernote, a very slick and powerful note application that offers terrific features including a mobile interface for your iPhone or iPod touch. Evernote has downloadable client softw...
Friday Roundup for March 21st, 2008 - iPhone tips submitted by you
It’s Friday again and time to share the best iPhone tips and iPod touch tips submitted by you, the readers of Touchtip. Today, we’ll learn how users yearning for 3rd party apps don’t...
reQall, it’s actually pronounced “recall” and don’t you forget it
If you’re the forgetful type, you should check out…uh…crap, what was it? Oh yeah, reQall, a free memory tool that helps you remember things better, and now optimized for iPhone and i...
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...
Friday Roundup for February 15th, 2008 - iPhone tips submitted by you
Happy Friday! We head into the weekend with a new roundup of iPhone tips and iPod touch tricks submitted by you, the most dedicated readers of Touchip. Don’t forget to share your own tip with us...
Friday Roundup for February 1st, 2008 - iPhone tips submitted by you
This week’s iPhone tips roundup contains a few gems you won’t want to miss if you own an iPhone or iPod touch. Last week, a Touchtip reader shared with us a simple way to get to the period...
Your news and blogs are speaking to you, listen in with PimpMyNews
PimpMyNews is a new, free service that allows users with web browsers or MP3 players to listen to news and blogs instead of having to read them. This is accomplished with automatic text-to-speech conv...
Gather ’round the Campfire to chat on iPhone and iPod touch
Campfire, the group chat web application, arrives in style on iPhone and iPod touch. Campfire is part of a suite of award-winning web 2.0 apps from 37signals, the developers of business productivity ...
Gmail rocks the iPhone and iPod touch with new features
Wow. So much Googley goodness this week, it’s making our heads spin. Two days ago Google rolls out a wicked good update to its iPhone and iPod touch interface to make all the Google web apps fas...