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Browse iTunes without the Actual Application

T.J. Mininday — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:37:15 +0000

There is no denying that iTunes is a massive marketplace. Music, Movies, Books, Podcasts and the quickly growing App store is making it the goto location for everything media related. One of the biggest problems with it’s huge growth and continual addition of features, is really turning it into a bloated monster. Fortunately someone has come up with a way to browse the iTunes store without the need for the application. Only a simple web browser.

It is simply labeled as ‘App Store’ and it doesn’t look all that much different than iTunes itself. It looks very similar and acts in all the same similar manners, except for the integrated search. When you find something you like, clicking on a link takes you directly into iTunes. It makes browsing the iTunes store for your next favorite piece of media, very easy.

Checkout – App Store

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Extend Your iPhone Battery Life with these great tips.

T.J. Mininday — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:34:52 +0000

As I mentioned in my Sunday Finds, I just recently purchased an iPhone. I must say, I knew that I was going to be addicted, I just didn’t realize how much. I’m a Windows guy, and I was hoping Windows Mobile 7 would be released much sooner then later. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. So, I decided to make the plunge, drop my sorry Verizon phone and switch to AT&T and get the 3G iPhone. Two days later, I’m still hopelessly addicted, with no sign of slowing down. Dozens and dozens of apps, e-mail at your finger tips, IM like SMSing, visual voicemail, full internet browser, Wi-Fi, on and on and on. The problem with this addiction, is the battery life.

I am quickly finding out that I am having to plug the phone in on a nightly basis, and it’s already getting somewhat annoying. So, I did some digging and I found a great video with several iPhone battery saving tips. I’ve listed some of the big ones, and you can see the rest in the below video.

Turn off Wi-Fi when it’s not being used or needed.
Turn off 3G when it’s not being used or needed.
Turn down the screen brightness. I have mine extremely low, and I can still see everything great.
Press the sleep button on top, as soon as you are done using it.
If you are continuously forgetting to put it to sleep, make sure auto-locking is set fairly low. 1 or 2 minutes?
Turn off Fetch or Push e-mail, if you aren’t using either one of them.
Turn off phone vibration while ringing. Only have vibration on while it’s on silent.
Avoid downloading apps while wireless.

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T.J. Mininday — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:07:57 +0000

Just this past week, Google announced one of the easiest and what is sure to be one of the most popular iPhone apps in the App Store. They’ve essentially removed the sometimes annoying touch screen keyboard and integrated voice recognition to their search capabilities.

Every enhanced ability of Google search appears to be part of the application. Whether you want to find out the weather in a particular location, the movie times in your local theater or even the built-in calculator. It looks like an amazing product from our amazing friends at Google, and it’s just one more reason to talk you into buying an iPhone. I would assume that this same capability will be built-in to their G1 phone with TMobile as well.

Here is a great tour of the new app’s ability:

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T.J. Mininday — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:23:37 +0000

According to some, we aren’t even looking at the fastest browser that Mozilla has to offer. They have been working on an ‘underground’ prototype called Minefield for quite a while now. According to Ars Technica it can render JavaScript up to 10% faster then even Google’s Chrome. It looks as though Mozilla might have thoughts of eventually migrating this into their future Firefox browsers and taking back the ‘Fastest Browser in the World’ crown.

I downloaded it myself and didn’t see any noticeable difference, but you will notice right away that it attempts to integrate all of your present Firefox extensions, which it will fail to do. The fortunate part is that it runs as a completely seperate browser from Firefox, and could even be run side-by-side if one would like.

Check it out, I wasn’t sold, but maybe you will be… Download Nightly Builds Here (MAC, Linux, Windows)

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T.J. Mininday — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:24:37 +0000

I knew it was only a matter of time before an application was released on the iPhone. It’s a very similar $12.00 app from the new iTunes app store that nearly duplicates the power of remote desktop/terminal service communications with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.

With the proper configuration, it will allow you to remotely access and administrate your home or business PC, through the slick iPhone interface. I’m interested to hear some reviews on how it works on the slower Edge network. It’s just another sell for me on the iPhone, but let’s wait to see how the G1 works out.

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