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Shake & shuffle your music

Submitted by SolomOn27 on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 22:27
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Fall 2009

Even the music in your favorites list can get old after a few months. If you want to skip a song you’ve heard too many times, you can always tap on the Next button in iPod’s Now Playing screen. But with OS 3.0, it’s even easier. Simply shake your iPhone or iPod touch while you are listening to music and the iPod app will skip to the next song. This feature also works with videos and audiobooks.

Note that you must be in the iPod app for this feature to work. You can’t be listening to music in the background while you’re using another app.

iPhone 3GS: A Killer of "Killer Devices!"

Replaces camera, camcorder, GPS and radio!
Daniel Cohen
Fall 2009

iPhone3Gs4ViewsIn the two years since the introduction of the iPhone, a number of “iPhone killers” have been released. None of these smartphones have been able to stop, or even slow down, the iPhone’s momentum. With the release of the iPhone 3GS and OS 3.0, the iPhone has become a more powerful and feature-rich device. So much so, that it is moving beyond the “smartphone” niche and becoming more of a phone/pocket computer combo.


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Get animated with Animoto

By John Painter, September 16, 2009
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    There’s nothing the matter with rediscovering things, and that’s the way I feel with Animoto’s (free) iPhone app, you know it really doesn’t get any easier to crank out some pretty fun and impressive video, take a look at the following video I made with my iPhone 3G of an iPhone 2G rebuild I did and turned into a video – of course set to the tune of Verdi’s Rigoletto.  This just goes to illustrate how powerful Animoto is for creating very fast, very aesthetic videos which, as mine starts to lead one, to educational purposes – or at least rebuilding a smashed iPhone.


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TUTORIAL & COMPARISON: Other ways of on-iPhone YouTube video download for offline watching

By Werner Ruotsalainen, August 3, 2009
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During the discussion of my article on YourTube, an excellent plug-in for downloading videos from YouTube, I’ve been asked in a HowardForums thread about the other two, free(!) solutions, the AppStore-based (read: no jailbreaking needed) iWoopie and the Cydia-based MxTube.

In the following, I thoroughly compare these two apps to both each other and YourTube.

Generic pros / cons of the three YouTube downloaders


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Brand new YouTube tips: downloading; playing in high quality over cellular connections

By Werner Ruotsalainen, July 31, 2009
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Want to see high-quality YouTube clips over dial-up – or download them right onto your iPhone? Here’s the solution!
A synopsis: in this tutorial, I both explain how you can set up a Cydia account and manage PayPal payments from there and also two apps that allow to

1. download any videos from YouTube so that, after downloading, you can watch them again any number of times, transfer them to any other computer etc. Excellent for either saving clips that you think will be removed or saving data usage if you plan to view the clip again.


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Set timer to stop playing music

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/17/2009 - 12:19
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Summer 2009

 It’s easy to fall asleep while listening to music or watching a video late at night. If you find yourself doing this a lot, you can set a sleep timer that will stop playing music or video, and close any other open app after a specific period of time. Here’s how you do it:

No sound on iPhone or iPod touch?

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/17/2009 - 12:15
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Summer 2009

 Note that the iPod touch 2G has built-in speakers, but the first generation Touch does not. You must use the earphones that came with the device. If you can’t hear any sound coming from your device, check out the obvious things first:

YouTube enhancements in iPhone OS 3

By Werner Ruotsalainen, June 22, 2009
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YouTube support has been considerably enhanced in iPhone OS 3. 

1, now, when you exit a clip (tap Done), instead of returning to the list of clips you were at, you’re presented two brand new tabs:

A, an “Info” tab with the list of the comments and other info (tags, category, date, description).

It also has a button “Rate, comment or flag”. As you may have guessed, this allows for rating and commenting (too bad the latter doesn’t work in landscape).


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TVU Player a killer app!

By John Painter, May 10, 2009
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Ok, is it just me or is TVU (iPhone app and OS X beta player) just an excellent little window to the world? 


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Convert videos to play on the iPhone or iPod touch

Submitted by Steve Green on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 23:00
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Spring 2009

The iPhone and iPod touch supports video formats encoded using the MPEG-4 and H.264 codecs; video files encoded in these formats end with .m4v, .mp4 or .mov file extensions. If you have videos in other formats, you need to convert them to a compatible format before you can play them on the iPhone or iPod touch.
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