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If you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone (which, btw, is now possible with firmware 2.2) you can easily control it from your Mac (or PC). Check it out:

What does this mean? How do you do it? Read more…

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This was one of the first trips in a long time that I didn’t bring my powerbook along with me. I did have my iPhone (I had just unlocked the SIM with ziphone before leaving) which worked in Vietnam and was crucial for finding free WiFi. Also, in Airplane mode, the iPhone is really a great iPod with a really long battery life.

My main interest throughout the trip was taking pictures with my new Canon 450d DSLR camera. I got some good opportunities to try taking HDR pictures. If you don’t know about HDR, a technique you can easily do with just about any Canon camera, check out this wikipedia article. If you’re bored, you can check out my first set of photos from my trip on my Flickr page.

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Fresh Apps is a brief summary of the most interesting applications I’ve recently discovered

Mac Applications

• Jott (free)
Call 866-JOTT-123, speak a message to yourself or friend; message is converted into text and e-mailed, texted, set as a reminder with alarm, or added to a list, and updated on your Jott site including original audio — WOW!

• Stumbi (shareware: $2)
Finally a StumbleUpon plug-in for Safari; rate pages, add new sites to StumbleUpon, and of course, Stumble!

• Yasu (donationware)
“Yet Another System Utility” with just one screen containing the most crucial maintenance commands

• Switch (free)
A free audio format converter; supports a bunch of file types

• ScreenFlow (shareware; exported movie is watermarked: $100)
The best Mac screen recorder ever; includes editor with amazing features, at a price

iPhone Applications

• IntelliScreen (free/beta)
Fill your “slide to unlock” screen with great info including latest news (choose any rss feed), new mail, sms, ical events, weather, and sports — super useful application — really smart and well thought out!!

• PhoneZap (free)
Create ringtones from any mp3 on your phone; choose start time and duration (up to 30 sec), automatically added to ringtones list after creation

• Spoofapp (free app, 5 free minutes, $10 for 60 minutes)
Change the number your calling from (on the recipient’s caller ID), disguise voice as male or female (both kinda sound like computers), record phone calls

• TimeCapsule (shareware, one backup per app before buying)
Backup the data on many iphone applications; Address Book (which saved one of my clients who lost their Address Book on Mac), notes, preferences, sms, springboard preferences, weather, and many more

• RagingThunder (free)
Awesome car racing game; control car by moving iPhone; takes a while to get good, but really cool use of the accelerometer

• Band (free/beta)
Music creation tool including dozens of sound sets; was cool but just froze my iphone while writing this

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