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Without a doubt, Google Maps on the iPhone is one of those god-sent features that makes you wonder how you ever lived without it. It brings the power of street-level maps from around the world right to the palm of your hand. Combine that with satellite imagery, turn-by-turn directions and a photographic pedestrian view and [...]
Mobile Me Photo Albums
Mobile Me is currently one of the best photo sharing apps available. There’s 20 GB of storage for you to fill up, which is a lot of photos. To put your photos on me.com, you can export them from iPhoto on your Mac, just like you could with the .Mac portal. But what really makes [...]
No-Jailbreak Video Apps for iPhone
Not so much a video recording app as a piece of software that allows you to make mini slideshows, 12seconds is about as close as you can get to moving picture and sound on the iPhone until Apple changes its approach to video recording on the iPhone (which, if rumour has it, will be sooner [...]
The advantages of iDisk on Mobile Me
Like an external hard drive, iDisk is a convenient online storage service attached to your Mobile Me account. It can be accessed from a Mac or PC directly, or via the me.com web portal. Essentially, iDisk exists to store important files that you need access to everywhere you go. But a more useful application of [...]
Costs of MobileMe
Unfortunately, a free service like MobileMe is still too good to be true. It requires a yearly subscription, just like it’s predecessor, .Mac. In Australia, a single-user license will cost you $119 per year, which gives you 20GB of combined email and file storage plus 200GB per month of data transfer. A family pack will [...]
Adding Videos to Your iPhone
If you have video files you’d like to watch on your iPhone but they don’t seem to copy into the iTunes library, it is probably because they are the wrong format. The iPhone only accepts audio and video files in these three formats: AAC, MP3 and M4A. Most videos and film clips that are downloaded [...]
iPhone Video Recording Feature
When it comes to video recording, even some of the most basic mobile phones offer this simplistic feature. The Apple iPhone, however, disappointed many when they learned that the 2.0 Mega pixel camera is for stills only. Despite the obvious step back in technology here, Apple supporters would argue that it requires unnecessary memory and [...]