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How To Get 70GB of Music on Your 8GB iPhone
Apr 8th
If you have an iPodTouch or iPhone, you’re probably maxing out on the music playback capabilities of the device. In fact, I bet you probably shelled out a little more for the 8GB version just becuase you have so many songs you want to carry around with you.
The only problem is that from time to time, you get bored.
And you have to re-sync the Apple iPhone with your Mac or PC to swap out mp3 music files so that you have a fresh batch on your iPhone.
What if I said that you didn’t have to do it anymore! What if I said that there’s a way for you to play any song that’s on your computer at home even though you are across the globe with your iPhone?
And what if I said that you can play any song on your computer at home as well as from 30 of your friend’s computers as well? That would basically kill the need for that 8GB upgrade, no? Perhaps you could have saved a little more cash and gone with the 4GB version of the iPhone or iPod Touch?
This is one of those “must installs” for the iPhone that everyone is raving about.
Ok, ok, I’ll stop stalling…here’s how. . .
It’s all about YOU: How To Download YOUtube Videos
Dec 15th
In our culture today, It’s all about YOU. . .
YOUtube that is.
2007 was the year of online video and YouTube was at the forefront of it all. Google made a smart move to gobble up YouTube when it could.
Now there’s so much video content being produced and uploaded and the masses are taking to having their own YouTube procrastination breaks all throughout the day.
As if it’s so critical to have access to YouTube, even iPhone launch marketing collateral made a point of the fact that you can access YouTube videos on the iPhone. Yahee or Yahoo! J
Anyway, when you find that gem on YouTube, sometimes you wish you could just *keep it* or rather download it to save, forward or just watch over and over again offline to waste even more of your life. How do you do that?
Well, there’s a great site called KissYouTube that lets you do this. You simply visit www.kissyoutube.com and enter the URL of the YouTube video clip you’d like to save, and it will automatically allow you to download the video clip in a format that you can save and watch on your own computer without a flash-based browser.
OPTION #2: The Internet never offers just one choice. Here’s another option to download online videos into various formats for your PC, iPod, mobile phone, DivX, etc. www.vixy.net offers you several options with a drop down menu to select which format you’d like when you grab that video.
Or if you find that hilarious or inspiring music video, but want to download the audio track for your listening enjoyment in the car or on your mp3 player, there’s an option to download the audio into mp3 format only as well.
Tivo Connects To Photobucket.com
Dec 5th
Tivo is suddenly about more than just recording TV programs.
Recently, Tivo rolled out it’s music-on-demand service with Rhapsody. You already know about the great Amazon Unbox feature that turns your Tivo into a PayPerView box.
But wait, there’s more. . . Read the rest of this entry »
How To Supercharge Google Image Search
Dec 2nd
As the internet matures, so do people’s searching techniques. Slowly, people are starting to use longer keyword terms to find the things they need, using more specific information to retreive what they want.
Another way is to use more specific search tools. Google Image Search is one of them that is starting to catch on. If you’re never used the “IMAGES” search at the top of the Google search results page, you are in for a treat. It quickly will scan the web and come back with related images to your search terms.
Google Image Search will provide thumbnails for which you can click on each one to see if it’s really what you’re looking for. The size of the thumbnails can quickly be cumbersome to go through so there’s a better way to do image searches on Google and view the full-sized photos all on a single page to save you time from all that clicking back and forth. . . Read the rest of this entry »
Are You Tired Of Doing All The Talking?
Nov 26th
There’s so much content out there that you need to read and consume.
Wouldn’t it be great if someone could just turn those long memos into mp3 audiobook files so you can just listen to them on your ipod on your way home from work? What about if you could have all of your emails read to you? Reading the Bible every day? Couldn’t you absorb more if you had it read to you instead?
Getting An Earful At My Local Starbucks
Nov 5th
Tired of handing over wads of cash to your barrista at Starbucks each day and feeling like you’re getting nothing for something?
Today’s your day.
And tomorrow too.
And the next day.
When you go into Starbucks this week, don’t forget to ask for a couple of minutes with Paul and Suzanna. Actually, what they’ll give you is an earful full of Suzanne Vega and Paul McCartney. They’re handing out free gift cards for free downloads from Apple iTunes.com
7 Sites for Free Royalty-Free Stock Photo Downloads
Oct 30th
The meaning of life (on the web) is shifting it’s definition from one of consumption to one of creation.
Social networking sites and the massive move of Web 2.0 sites and beyond allowing for more user-interaction and user-creation is now evolving to one where publishing is core to the experience.
And expression on the web is no different than online in many ways. It’s not just about words. Making an impact is easily made when you embrace something that’s more powerful than words. Simpler than words. Quicker than words. It’s knowing that. . .
I love tech, gadgets and the web. Hope you pick-up a useful tip or two here today that helps you use technology to your advantage! Better yet, why not share your own expertise in a comment on a post today to help the other readers that land here for answers!