Waiting for a Hulu.com app? Well, it’s still not here, but if you like the NBC shows and clips on Hulu, you can watch the same content in your iPhone’s browser, for free.
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Alex Lindsay, host of the video podcast MacBreak, decided it would be fun to put an iPhone 3GS on a professional shoulder-mounted camera rig, the RedRock microshoulderMount ($395). In the video, he acknowledges it’s taking things “a bit too far,” but hopes “it will get your creative juices flowing about what’s possible with the iPhone 3GS.”
Other gear involved :
LitePanels Micro ($299)
Ped3Auto ($40)
Sima SLBM Video Brack ($15)
BeachTek Dual XLR Adapter DXA4P ($179.95)
Links:
MacBreak “Video on the iPhone 3GS: How Far is Too Far?” (63MB download)
This is a good tip for anyone with a cell phone, with a few special bonuses for iPhone users. Google offers a free alternative to cell provider’s regular 411 directory services, which often cost money to use. 1-800-GOOG-411 is an automated directory service that uses voice recognition to handle your queries and a robotic text-to-speech reader (which is sometimes hard to understand, but it’s free, so who’s complaining?) to deliver your data. Like other 411 services, Goog-411 gives you the phone number and address and offers to connect you.
What you may not know is that Goog 411 can send a text message that features a phone number, address, and a Google Maps link. To get the text message, simply say “details” and “text message” when prompted. A text message appears almost instantaneously (at least it does for me).
A tap on the phone number dials the number. A tap on the Google Maps link opens the address location in the Google Maps app. An arrow also appears next to the text message. Tap the arrow, and you can create a new contact with the information or add it to an existing one.
Of course, you could also use the Google Maps feature to search for the information as well, but sometimes Goog-411 is quicker if you only know a nearby intersection and don’t want to type out the long names, or if the EDGE network is acting up. In fact, I find that using Goog-411 is much faster than using the keyboard/Internet combination to search and utilize information.
In cardinal numbers, the 1-800-GOOG-411 number is:
1-800-466-4411
Check out the YouTube video below for an introduction to the service by the Google guys.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN0q8SvlQAk
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Found on YouTube. I have no idea what this guy is talking about in this video tip. He claims that while scrolling through contacts, if you hold a finger down on the letters on the right side, the scrolling slows down and becomes smoother. Huh? No it doesn’t.
Here’s a tip on how to add icons to your iPhone contacts via Address Book in OSX. It comes in handy for businesses or people you don’t have pictures for.
My iPhone Error Video
Mar 9
If you’re a del.icio.us user, here’s a quick tip. To share a link, most people copy and paste the url into del.icio.us. However, you can’t do that on your iPhone. Instead of manually typing in the url, here’s a way to automatically fill in the url field into del.icio.us when you navigate from the website to the del.icio.us site.
- Open the Safari web browser on your computer.
- Log in to your delicious account.
- Go to: http://del.icio.us/help/buttons.
- Drag the “Post to del.icio.us” graphic to the Safari toolbar.
- Synch your iPhone with iTunes (this will add the del.icio.us bookmark to your iPhone).
Now, when you’re browsing content with your iPhone and find something you want to share over delicious, simply go to your bookmarks and tap the “Post to del.icio.us” bookmark. It will navigate to the del.icio.us link-sharing page but automatically fill in the URL from the page you were navigating from.
See a video demonstration of this tip on the del.icio.us blog.
How will the iPhone handle the cold of winter? The video below features the iPhone being placed in a freezer for extended periods of time at different temperatures. The verdict? The iPhone stands up pretty well under extreme temperatures.