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Mover makes it east to send contacts and photos with a flourish to other iPhones and iPods on the same WiFi network. The app shows the names of up to four others with Mover open on the same network, each staking out one side of the screen. Just flick a contact or photo towards the name of the iPhone you are sharing with, and it skids into view on the receiving end, automatically saved to that phone’s contact list or camera roll. (more…)
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Mover: Best iPhone app for Swapping Contacts
November 26th, 2009 
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ReaddleDocs:Best iPhone app for documents on the Go
November 25th, 2009 iphone News and Updates 
ReaddleDocs is the Rolls Royce of document portfolios. Lots of other apps (including Quickoffice and Evernote) let you share, store, and browse files, but this app offers the cleverest mix of methods to spirit files on and off your iPhone. It talks to popular online storage services (like MobileMe or Box.net), downloads from websites, exchanges with computers on the same network, and lets you email files back and forth. (more…)
Best iPhone app for taking notes: Evernote
November 24th, 2009 iphone News and Updates Far more than a notepad, Evernote is a self-organizing file cabinet for all the info you care to keep. It’s Google for your brain. Chuck anything into it, and Evernote’s search finds it for you. It even reads text in photos; snap a business card or scribbled note, and fetch it later with a text search. Notes are stored at evernote.com, so you can also get at’em on the Web or with free desktop software, where you can also add files to your personal archive.
Worth a thousand words: Add text, photo, or voice notes, photos are especially easy ways to grab into from menus, books, sticks notes, or museum wall text – Evernote recognizes and indexes any text or handwriting in your pictures. Alas, Evernote doesn’t transcribe speech, but it’s voice memos are still convenient ways to leave yourself a reminder. Record up to ten minutes per note, and play them back when you’re ready.
leave the marker at home: Evernote does its work in business-like Helvetica instead of the funky marker felt font preferred by the built-in Notes app. You can also flip in on its side to edit in landscape view. Photos and recprded audio appear as attachments to a regular note; add descriptive text, or give it tags to add your own personal categories to the note. When you’re done, the app saves the note in your evernote.com account.
Head in the cloud: You can browse the titles and thumbnails of all notes offline, but because the full contents of each note are stored online, you need internet access to consult details except for recently viewed notes or those marked as favorites. Evernote lets you read attached documents, but with a catch: Free evernote.com accounts work only with PDF, images, and audio. Other file types require a paid account.
On the Map: When you add a note from your iPhone, Evernote grabs your current location, too, letting you browse notes by location. When you pass a store you’d like to visit, add a note, and the map feature will help you find it later. Or photograph the label of a tasty wine at a restaurant and quickly look it up if you want to order the same wine next time. You can also search notes or browse them by date, title, city, or country. (more…)
iPhone App for To do lists:Todo
November 20th, 2009 iphone News and Updates 
Todo does everything you’d want in a to-do-list – and almost certainly more. With so many features, fields, colors, icons, and customization options, Todo lacks the easy elegance that earns Things the top pick in this category. But Todo has a nifty set of bells and whistles that hardcore organizers may consider essential.
Best iphone app for Brainstorming: iThoughts
November 19th, 2009 iphone News and Updates 
Cross an outline with a flow chart, and you get a “mind map,” a visual sketch for capturing and organizing stream-of-consciousness ideas. iThoughts diagrams these brainstorm sessions on your iPhone. A bubble represents your topic; draw links to more bubbles for related ideas, which grow like tendrils across the screen. When you’re done, prune and organize branches into shape. Email or share maps online in several formats.
BRANCH OUT: start with a central idea starting a new career as a superhero, for example – and add branches for the concepts and tipics to consider. The diagram sprouts clouds and tentacles of topics and subtopics. iThroughts provides a big canvas for your mind map, about 100 iPhone screens.Swipe to move arround, pinch to make the map larger or smaller, or flip your iPhone or iPod on its side for landscape view.
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Best iPhone app for Remembering Stuffs:reQall
November 16th, 2009 iphone News and Updates 
Turn your iPhone into a unfailing executive assistant, ready to remind you of calender items, notes, and to-dos. It’s almost magic Say “Meet Rich at 4:30 pm Tomorrow”. and reQall transcribes the text, creates a to-do, adds an event to your calender, and sends you a reminder before the meeting. It’s like an outboard memory for the overloaded modern mind. The app requires a fee account at reqall[dot]com. (more…)
How to Protect your iPhone from Damage
November 12th, 2009 iphone News and Updates Now that your iPhone is powered up, you may want to protect its beautiful look and feel to ensure your iPhone stays brand new inside as well as out.
The iPhone, in contrast to the iPod, has a brushed metal back, which doesn’t scratch or smudge easily, if at all. The front of the iPhone isn’t quite so durable. Basically you’ve got one gorgeous slab of glass lying atop your iPhone. This class is actually quite durable, and after logging hundreds of hours with my iPhone nestled in my pocket, I’ve yet to incur any scratches, nicks, dents, or anything else that could fall under the damage category. However, that’s me, and I admittedly handle my iPhone with kid gloves. Depending on what kind of an owner you are, you might want to consider one of many screen protectors available for the iPhone. Screen protectors provide a transparent shield of plastic between your gorgeous slab of glass and the larsh would of pointy things surrounding it
No matter how careful you are with your iPhone, the biggest danger is an unprotected drop onto a hard surface. The most compelling reason you might want to grab yourself some sort of iPhone case is to ward off – or at least partially protect against – the internal and external damage that dropping your iPhone could cause. Cosmetic damage is a bummer: Your iPhone won’t look as new and shiny. Internal damage can mean the end of your iPhone.
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How to Activate your iPhone
November 11th, 2009 iphone News and Updates You’ve made the purchase and you made in home – with a quick stop at book store to pick up the book you’re currently holding – and you’re ready to start using the phone. Not so fast, hot shot. You’ve got some setting up to do. Your first step is activation. Instead of waiting inside a cell phone store, you actually set up teh iPhone yourself using Apple’s music management software called iTunes. Here’s how you do it.
- If you are already running an Apple OS X machine purchased in the last couple of years, you probably already have iTunes installed. Windows users may or may not have already installed iTunes. Never mind that, because you want to make sure you have the latest version anyway. Open up a web browser and type apple(dot)com/itunes/download into the address bar. (more…)
What is an iPhone and How is it different form other cell phones?
November 10th, 2009 iphone News and Updates The iPhone is, first and foremost, a cell phone, However, as Apple Inc’s CEO Steve Jobs said when unveiling the iPhone at MacWorld 2009, it’s these three devices integrated together that makes the iPhone such a remarkable piece of hardware. More specifically, the thing that makes the iPhone as such so great isn’t even in the hardware itself – the secret sauce is in the software.
That’s right – it’s the software that makes the iPhone such a revolutionary phone. Not only does the iPhone have easy-to-access speed dial lists, call history, and contacts, but there’s a giant traditional dial pad as well. But most phones have this already, you say, so what’s different here? In one world: integration. It’s in the way that you can easily bring up your friends addresses in Google Maps, the flawles way they sync with Address Book on the Mac and Outlook on the PC, and the convenient way you can quickly assign unique ringtones and pictures to all your contacts. These functions are present to other phones, of course, but they require a Batman-like level of technical knowledge to get to.
Get your PC or Mac Ready to work with an iPod or iPhone
November 9th, 2009 iphone News and Updates If your PC or Mac is a recent model, it probably is ready to work with whichever new iPod you choose. If it’s older, or if it’s a budget model, or if you’ve picked up an older iPod, you may need to add new components
Here are the requirements for an iPod classic, an iPod touch, an iPod nano, an iPod shuffle, or an iPhone:
- A PC running windows Vista(Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise Edition) or either window XP Home Edition or Windows XP professional with Service Pack 3, or a Mac running Mac OS X 10.4.10(Tiger) ir Mac OS X 10.5(Leopard).
- A USB port. It’s best to have a high-power USB 2.0 port, although you can scrape by with a USB 1.x port if you’re prepared to be patient. This USB port must deliver enough power to recharge the iPod or iPhone. If your keyboard has a built-in USB port (as many Apple keyboards do), chances are that it doesn’t deliver enough power for recharging.
- An optional drive(a CD drive ot a DVD drive) if you want to be able to rip songs form CDs to put on the iPod or iPhone.
- A CD burner if you want to burn CDs from iTunes, or a DVD burner if you want to be able to burn both DVDs and CDs (Most modern optical drives include burning capabilities).
Why USB 2.0 makes a Huge Difference to using an iPod or iPhone
- USB 2.0 is up to 40 times faster than USB 1.x, so you’ll definitely want USB 2.0. If you have the choice. USB 1.x has a top speed of 12 megabits per second(Mbps), which translates to a maximum transfer of about 1.5 MB of data per second. USB 2.0 has a top speed of 400 Mbps, which gives a data transfer rate of about 60 MB per second.
- As a result of this difference, loading an iPod via a USB 2.0 port will go far faster than via a USB 1.x port. The difference is most painful when you’re loading an iPod classic, but you’ll feel the pinch of USB 1.x even with the lower capacity of an iPod shuffle or an iPod nano.Apple will no doubt release higher-capacity iPods and iPhones in the years to come, but USB will be improving its act too. USB 3.0, known as SuperSpeed USB, will provide up to 5 gigabits per second(Gbps), will be backward compatible with USB 2.0 and is expected to arrive in 2010.
