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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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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Of course the one night I leave my car unlocked, some punk kid steals my iPod. I call the police to file a report and they ask for a serial number. “It’s on the back of the iPod, I didn’t write it down,” I tell the officer.
No matter what I say, he wants [...]

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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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This is for those of you (like me) who tend to scratch disc media. To do this, you need a copy of Leopard, an external hard drive or old iPod (more than 6.4 GB) and Disk Utility (you have this, don’t worry).
First, insert the Leopard install DVD. Then open Disk utility. Click “Mac OS X [...]

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Most of you know this already, but every song you buy from iTunes is designed so that it only plays on your iTunes and your iPod, no one else’s. This is to prevent piracy, it’s called digital rights management, or DRM for short. It’s annoying because say you dislike the iPod but received an iTunes [...]

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If you have an iPod Video with a broken hard drive or just want to upgrade to more energy efficient and more durable Flash memory, then Tarkan has just what you need. It’s a straightforward operation that shouldn’t take you more than 20 minutes. Here’s what you’ll need:

1 Compact Flash card of any size (No [...]

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I know that that picture looks like a normal Finder window, and that may be true, but this one is special; it’s the entire contents of my stupid, stupid, useless 4 GB nano. iPodDisk unlocks any Mac formatted iPod and unlocks it so that you can rip songs from its innards.
To use it, simply enable [...]

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