The Associated Press recently launched an iPhone-friendly web application containing all their news articles in an attractive and convenient format. They join many other web sites to create Mobile Safari editions of their services, and offer some excellent features.
To access the Associated Press iPhone view, visit apnews.com from your iPhone or iPod Touch. The site [...]

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Gizmodo recently posted out that keyboard localization and accents in SMS messages can lead to bloodbaths, so I figured it would be useful to point out how easy it is to put accents over letters on the iPhone; maybe it will save some lives.
The default view when the iPhone keyboard pops up on your screen [...]

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Jaxtr is a website that allows you to send free SMS texts to any number in the US as well as a handful of other countries, such as Sweden, and the UK.
While you may be thinking “ho hum, it’s been done” keep in mind that iPhone data plans are limited to 200 texts per month. [...]

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I have 10 free invites for Evernote. If you’re interested please leave your e-mail address in the comments.

Evernote is a cool new service that allows you to clip information and save it for a later date. This is a simple concept, but it’s executed beautifully.
With Evernote you can keep track of little bits of information [...]

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The iPhone’s video sub-application (it is technically part of the iPod application) contains everything you’d expect from a solid video player. By tapping on the screen, you get a pop-up on the bottom and top of the screen that allows you to pause, play, fast-forward, or rewind the video, to adjust the volume, to change [...]

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Snapture is an interesting iPhone app that makes the camera a bit more useful by adding burst mode, auto rotation (for portrait pics), greyscale, and digital zoom. It also has a silent mode which does away with the shutter sound. It’s a neat little package and completely free, you just need a jailbroken iPhone with [...]

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A couple weeks ago, my iPhone firmware somehow got corrupted and iTunes instructed me to restore it in order for it to work again. I took iTunes’ advice and restored the iPhone, but my iPhone still didn’t seem to work. It entered a strange mode where all I could see was a black screen with [...]

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I have always found the little button and microphone included on my iPhone headphones a really useful and thoughtful feature. I’ve always known that while listening to music the button could be used for pausing and playing the music, and pressing the button with a call coming in would answer the phone. However, while using [...]

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As described in the video, it involves copying the text to the bookmarklet (which turns it into a cookie), then selecting paste from the bookmarklet, then selecting paste again, to put it where you want it, the page will then reload with the text entered in its desired location.

It’s a really tedious process and i don’t suggest using it unless you need to because if you’re just copying a few sentences, chances are, you could type it out manually in about the same amount of time.

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One of the major draws of the iPhone/iPod Touch is its flick and scroll touchscreen capabilities. I have often wondered, “Why can’t Apple release this for our computers with a simple software/firmware update?”. Apple still has not provided us with such a solution, but Marc Moini has.
Smart Scroll is a great application that makes inertial [...]

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