Twisted Melon has a product on the market called Manta, which remote enables any Mac G3, G4, G5, or MacPro. It is also a good product to have if you store your mac in a different room (i.e. media closet) and want to use your Apple Remote from the couch. Combine Manta with Twisted Melon’s Mira software and you’ll be able to control most of your Mac through your Apple Remote. Buy it here.
Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional media:
- File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW
- Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture
- Audio types: Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO
- AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
- Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT
This is a great free tool to use if you find yourself wanting to play additional audio and video file formats through Quicktime and/or Front Row. Available for download here.
Warranties are a fickle thing. Everyone buys extended warranties for the added insurance or relies on the standard one, in case a product fails prematurely. But hard to remember when the warranty runs out. This is where Warranty Hero can be incredibly useful. With a focus on ease-of-use, adding new product (or service) information is as simple as entering its name, vendor, purchase date and a time the warranty expires.
Warranty Hero Benefits:
Warranty Hero comes with a 30-day free demo and then costs $9.95 for a single-license copy or $14.95 for a 5-user license.
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For the past few weeks I have been using the Graphite case from Griffin to protect my iPhone 3GS. Normally I prefer the naked look of the iPhone but this case was able to win me over. The Graphite features a 2-part slider back for the best protection offered by a hard case. It also has a very nice textured back in a carbon fiber “graphite” weave pattern. The face of the case features a hyper-black chrome trim that circulates around the borders and seam lines of the body. It leaves the top and bottom exposed so you can even leave the case on to remove the SIM card. All in all I was very happy with this case, it does have a little bit more bulk than I prefer, but its overall aesthetics are enough to over look that.
The Graphite case is available for the iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G at most apple retail stores as well as apple online and through Griffin.
Price: $34.99
Finally a tally for the total cost to buy every application in the iPhone App Store.
“The total cost of all 55,732 apps in Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes App store as of Monday, July 6? $144,326.06, according to the folks at metrics outfit Busted Loop, who note that the average app price is about $2.59, if you don’t include free apps.”
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Download this cheap app (Rowmote) for your iPhone or iPod Touch and enjoy the freedom of having a wireless mouse, keyboard, and remote for your Mac. I have this app installed on a few iPod Touch units and use them to control the Macs connected to my TVs and can control them from any room in my house.
Rowmote Pro adds a wireless touchpad and keyboard – complete with landscape mode, two finger scrolling and right clicking, dragging, accented / extended character support, and more – to the clean and powerful remote control of Rowmote!
Rowmote requires Mac OS X 10.4.0 or later or an Apple TV. The free Rowmote Helper program must be running on the system to be controlled; please see the special Apple TV instructions if needed. (Apple TV notes: The ‘Apps’ remote is for the Mac only, not for the Apple TV; the Rowmote Pro keyboard works in all Mac applications and currently in some third party Apple TV apps, such as Boxee).
Rowmote is a steal at $0.99. Couple it with Apple’s free Remote app to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into the ultimate controller for home stereo, mobile presentation, or casual video viewing. Rowmote Pro is better than the competition and still less expensive at $4.99. Choose Rowmote Pro if you want complete control over your computer, or choose Rowmote if you want to emulate the Apple hardware remote on your device. Download today!
TomTom has made navigation available for your iPhone 3G. All you need is:
Starting Price $TBA
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