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Evom: Convert & Transfer Movies From Your Computer and the Web

Written on June 01, 2009 by Jenny Kortina and 7 people have commented

I must admit, getting an iPhone has changed my media consumption habits a great deal. Pre-iPhone I would always have my iPod with me to listen to music, but that is all I would do. Now that I have my iPhone, I still listen to music from the iPod feature and stream music, but I [...]

App Review: Convert — Apparently Form Does Not Equal Function

Written on March 12, 2009 by Olly Farshi and 8 people have commented

Convert, an app for converting an array of different units, looks great and, in theory, should be quite useful. Unfortunately, the bad outweighs the good on this one.
The iPhone isn’t just about gaming and entertainment. Admittedly, I’ve got two screens worth of music and gaming apps, another screen for news, books and recipes, and then [...]

Tales From the Command Line: textutil

Written on December 18, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 8 people have commented

I really enjoy the overall experience reading books and articles on my Sony PRS-500 eBook reader, but dislike having to fire up Boot Camp or VMware into Windows in order to purchase books from the Sony eBook Store, especially when there are thousands of books in the public domain and tons of blog and article [...]

Open .docx with Office 2004

Written on September 03, 2008 by Jenny Kortina and 16 people have commented

Since the release of Office ‘08 I have been getting a lot of files with the .docx extension (the new standard for Word). Unfortunately, Office ‘04 does not natively support the .docx extension, but Microsoft has released a patch that lets you both open and save files in the open XML format.
If you have [...]

TubeTV – A Handy Little App for Saving Your Videos

Written on March 19, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 11 people have commented

Chimoosoft created this fantastic little donationware app called TubeTv. With this app, you can save video files from YouTube and other sites and make them playable on your Mac, iPod, or Apple TV. There are of course other ways to do the same thing, but a standalone app that grabs your URL from your default [...]