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Sun, Feb 14 2010 08:06 | Permalink


If you've been missing a way to watch live television on your iPhone, Mophie and FloTV have teamed up to provide just that solution in the next couple of months. FloTV is a new wireless TV service that has been put in place across the U.S. It provides 18 channels of television service with broad coverage.

In order to achieve this on the iPhone, Mophie has integrated the FloTV chips into one of their iPhone battery packs (Juice Pack TV) (not pictured above). The FloTV application will be a free download from the App Store and will interface with the FloTV chips using Wi-Fi. The end result should be live TV viewing from your iPhone as well as additional battery power from the Juice Pack TV.

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New Google Chrome Beta for Mac

Thu, Feb 11 2010 11:58 | Permalink

Google today announced the release of a new beta of Google Chrome for Mac, adding several new features such as extensions and bookmark syncing that were left out of the initial beta released in December while also focusing on a "snappy, safe, and simple browsing experience" for users.

With this new version, you'll be able to install any of over 2,200 extensions (and counting!) currently available in Chrome's extensions gallery. Extensions can add useful, informative, fun, or quirky functionality to the browser. You can manage your extensions by clicking on the Window menu and choosing "Extensions."

Bookmark syncing allows Chrome users to keep their bookmarks synchronized among Chrome browsers on Mac, Windows, and Linux machines. Also added in the new beta are bookmark, cookie, and task managers for increased functionality. A new video preview of Google Chrome for Mac has also been posted.

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Get yourself a Guru

Mon, Jun 22 2009 05:18 | Permalink
Howdini.com is a great site for expert how to videos on a wide range of topics.
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100+ iPhone 3.0 hidden features

Fri, Jun 19 2009 10:53 | iPhone | Permalink
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=715629
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"Eight, Freak'n, Hours!!!

Sat, Jun 13 2009 09:14 | Permalink

(via macrumors.com)
AnandTech takes a look at the new MacBook Pros released at WWDC last week and focuses on the new non-removable battery design. Apple first introduced the non-removable battery into the 17" Unibody MacBook Pro last fall with mixed reactions from the community. Apple's reasoning behind making the battery custom and non-removable has been the ability to incorporate a larger battery that will provide even longer battery life. They've also argued that most laptop owners do not carry spare batteries.

Anandtech does a good job exploring the technology behind the design:

Apple did some clever work on its own here. Standard lithium ion batteries are made up of cylindrical cells, similar to AA batteries. The problem with these batteries is that they waste a lot of space within a notebook (try cramming a lot of cylinders into a box, you end up with wasted space). This wasted space translates into larger batteries than are necessary, which makes for larger notebooks.

They found the 15" MacBook Pro got an additional 46% of battery capacity with no additional weight. Improvements were dramatic in their benchmark testing:


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Is this what we're all waiting for?

Wed, May 27 2009 08:21 | Permalink
The newest whispers are that Wintek has been independently confirmed as the supplier for an Apple "e-book form factor netbook product," which reads as a tablet-PC with a display somewhere in the 9-10 inches range. Meanwhile Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has been at it again, offering a fairly detailed prediction about the device. According to Munster, the project's been delayed until early 2010, and it'll run a third version of OS X that's halfway between the iPhone and Apple's full operating system. He expects it to be in the $500 to $700 price range.

Meanwhile, Micheal Arrington over at TechCrunch is taking time off from promoting his own pseudo-netbook to say that there's evidence Apple's diverted "significant" personnel from the iPhone and MacBook teams to work on the project, that the device is "very real" and will be "particularly useful for gaming." Would anyone out there buy one?


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Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know

Tue, May 26 2009 07:19 | Permalink

How To Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar

If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.

Facebook Chat is cool, at least it allows you to send instant messages to online Facebook contacts. However I’m not really a fan of the chat bar being at the bottom of the page, what if I’ve left Facebookbut still wants to remain chatting with my Facebook contacts? If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.

Step 1

Look for Bookmarks on the top navigation. Select Organize Bookmarks…
facebook chat

Step 2

Click New Bookmark... tab and enter the following:

  • Name: Facebook Chat
  • Location: http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
  • Check Load this bookmark in sidebar.

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Step 3

Launch the Firefox sidebar, click Facebook Chat and start chatting with your Facebook contacts within Firefox.

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iPhone "Field Test" mode

Tue, May 19 2009 01:07 | Permalink
The iPhone's Field Test mode gives technical information on how well the iPhone is connecting to the cell towers.

To activate Field Test Mode: bring up the keypad, type in *3001#12345#* and press the Call button.

This brings up the Field Test main menu. (Note that you should see the signal strenth bars in the upper left corner of the screen replaced with a number indicating the strength of the signal in decibels.)

The signal strength is indicated as a negative number, and the lower the number the better. You can use this feature to determine where the best reception is at work and at home.
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Turn off 3G to improve phone performance and conserve battery power

Tue, May 19 2009 01:00 | Permalink
Unless you are in an area with good reception, you'll probably get better cell performance and longer battery life with 3G turned off. To turn off 3G, tap on the Settings icon in the home screen, select General and the Network.
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iPhone tip: Save Web Pictures

Tue, May 19 2009 12:52 | Permalink
If you're browsing the Web with Safari on your iPhone and see an image you want to save, touch and hold down on the image with your finger. A menu will pop up allowing you to save the image to your photos folder.
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