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25 things you can control remotely with your iPhone

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One of the most surprising things about the iPhone is all the incredible variety of things it's being used for. And one of those things is as a remote control. A very helpful article/slide how on Business Insider, entitled "25 Things You Can Remote Control With Your iPhone," gives you a good picture of the possibilities, from controlling your DVR to the Boxee media center software. Pictured is the ProRemote ($99) software that lets you control pro audio editing software.



Extreme Sheepdog Trials — a game you can control by whistling

If you've never seen extreme sheepherding, you've got to watch this 3-minute. I just couldn't believe it when I first saw it.



QRANK — free daily trivia quiz

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if you enjoy trivia games, you might like QRANK, a free daily trivia quiz. Plus, it has a social component such that you can compete with your friends or try to get a high score on the leaderboards in various regions. Each day there are 20 new questions taken from current events.



Adorama announces winners of iPhone photo contest — really awesome photos

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These photos are must-see. I had no idea that the iPhone was capable of such great images. The lucky winner (shown here) was titled "Good-Bye & So Long," was by Neville Black, who won $1,000 in the Adorama iPhone Photo Contest. According to Adorama, this annual Award was created to spotlight the rapid rise in popularity of the iPhone as a new platform for digital point-and-shoot photography.



Everything you wanted to know about Apple vs Adobe Flash

CNet has a great article that thoroughly explains the fracas between Apple and Adobe. This matters to you because, as you know, when you point your iPhone or iPad at a web page that uses Flash animation or video, you don't see it. You only see an empty space. The fracas heated up when Steve Jobs said this past week that Flash will never be available on the iPhone or iPad. The article explains why. And it explains why in the future, with the forthcoming HTML5 standard, Flash may not be necessary. 



99-year-old has first computer — an iPad

This is a touching video about a 99-year-old woman who recently bought her first computer — an iPad.



Pianist plays Flight of the Bumblebee on an iPad

This is another "you-gotta-see-this" video. At an orchestral concert the guest pianist plays Flight of the Bumblebee on an iPad.



Opera Mini — speed test shows free browser loads pages 4 times faster, but loses to Safari in other tests

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I came across some speed tests on Lifehacker for the free Opera Mini browser. When it comes to loading web pages it's over 4 times faster than Safari. But the testing shows that it's slower than Safari in a couple other respects. The review says this is likely due to Safari's privileged position as the default browser and the fact that this is first version of Opera Mini.



Does iWork.com work?

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Well, here's another test off my iPad of what iWork.com can do, maybe. What remains to be seen is whether iWork.com becomes widely adopted. Given that, not everyone will have an iWork.com account. For those that do, take a stab at following the posted link here towards my attempted sharing to

Here is a shortened URL for a shared document http://bit.ly/aqUoQc

And here is the regular link you'd get if you upload a file to share
https://www.iwork.com/r/?a=p91050111&d=iWork_dot_com_test.pages


-- Post From John Painter's iPad



Airstash stop ship order

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Airstash ($99) notified customers today that its new wifi based flash drive is not shipping due to a problem in some of it's first run products with weak wifi signal (sound familiar iPad users?) even when the Airstash is fully charged and close to the device meant to stream to. A small number of defective units did ship, before 4/20/10, anyone having received one of these defective units should request an RMA number from the following address http://www.airstash.com/contact.html for return.

Having ordered an Airstash myself, I'm glad the company is acting promptly.



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