iPhone Lover

Wanna download videos from YouTube, MetaCafe, or any other flash video sites?

It will be quite easy by using PQ FLV Downloader (pro), our new product.

First of all, please click here to download the software and install it on your machine.

All is done? Ok, let’s see how to download YouTube videos step by step.

1. Click PQ FLV downloader (pro) shortcut icon on your desktop to start the software. A small window will display on the right bottom corner. It now starts detecting any flash movie url from your web browser. 

2. Go to YouTube.com, Metacafe.com or any online flash video site. Find the video you want. When the video starts to play, PQ FLV Downloader (pro) will catch its url automatically. As is shown below.

3. Clicking the detected URL, a dialog will pop up to prompt you to download.  Click ‘Save As’ to change the save path. Click ’start’ to start the download.

4. You can watch the movie during the downloading. So you will not waste any time. Our multi-thread downloading and RUSH delivery technique ensures a good viewing experience, especially when watching long drama or TV show from the web. 

5. After it finishes downloading, you can Enjoy your video offline by only clicking the saved file in your harddisk. Furthermore, if you want to convert the FLV video file to iPod,PSP or iPhone, you can utilize the FLV Video Converter, a tool integrated in the FLV Downloader Pro. It is also very easy to use.

Too easy to be true, isn’t it?

See this page to know more about the product.

Tips: PQ Youtube Downloader 1.0  is designed to be free use, its basic function will never be expired.

Google has done its bit in celebrating Macworld by upgrading the customised ‘iGoogle’ interface designed especially for the iPhone.  The first version, launched at the beginning of December, brought mobile Safari-friendly access of search, Gmail, Calendar and Reader to the handset, while this upgrade boosts speed, increases the flexibility in arranging tabs and options, adds automatic refresh to the Gmail inbox and brings iGoogle gadgets to the cellphone.

With plans to roll out the improved UI to international versions of the iPhone, as well as other handsets “that offer similar usability and browser capabilities”, this will only add fuel to the rumors that Google see the iPhone as a test-bed for internet-based applications eventually to be found on their own Android cellphone platform.

You can access the new version by visiting www.google.com on your iPhone

This is the last thing I expected to see what can be done with the iPhone SDK, but nevertheless here it is. Donald Hays sent us a link to “Sunset,” which is a game he wrote for the iPhone. I was skeptical when he described it as “a 3D RPG,” because this is the iPhone we’re talking about — the thing can’t even run Flash — but lo and behold, that’s exactly what it is. The graphics are homemade (he says he been working on the game since August of ‘07), and the genre conventions are many (it’s an RPG in the old Dungeons of Daggorath style), so you run around, kill stuff, complete objectives, and level up), but in this case it’s not the game that’s so amazing, but where and how you’re playing it.

Seriously — go to Donald’s site on your iPhone and give it a look yourself. The game’s even got an inventory system and a save system built into it. Very impressive work.

Update: Donald has also written up a postmortem of making the game. The first answer to the question in your mind: it’s mostly Javascript, and yes, it sounds like a hell of a lot of crazy coding. The end project is pretty incredible, though.

via  http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/14/sunset-an-fps-rpg-for-the-iphone/

iTransmogrify! is a bookmarklet for iPhone which transforms embedded Flash content into direct links to natively supported formats. That means YouTube videos and MP3s can now be played from the iPhone’s Safari web browser with just a few clicks.

Seeing it work is the best explanation:

On an iPhone? Try it now: iTransmogrify! (works in Safari and Firefox too)

Installation

To install the bookmarklet, just drag the link to your Safari or Firefox Bookmarks, IE users should right click and choose “Add To Favorites…” After adding the link, sync your iPhone.

Grab it now: iTransmogrify!

via http://joemaller.com/2008/01/12/itransmogrify/

Mac developer Ecamm has posted a sneak peak of iPhoneCam, an application that uses your iPhone’s camera as a wireless Mac webcam. You can stream video from your iPhone over its WiFi to any Mac video application, including iChat, Photo Booth, or Skype.

The application turns your iPhone’s built-in camera into a wireless web cam for your Mac (sorry Windows users), allowing you to stream video from your iPhone via Wi-Fi to the Mac application of your choice. According to Erica Sadun, using your iPhone to video chat with is a little akward, but it’s still a very cool concept.

Sadly the app isn’t for download yet, but Ecamm says that they will be demoing it at their booth at Macworld, so hopefully we’ll have more hands-on info for you soon.  to check the video demo of the app.

Whether the culprit is a sink, toilet or rainstorm, getting your iPhone soaked in water or any other liquid is bad news. If the unthinkable happens, and you don’t have insurance, your best bet is to make sure the iPhone is off, swap it down with a dry cloth, then do one of the following immediately:

• Put your iPhone in a tub or bag of uncooked rice and let it sit for several hours (up to 2 days).
• Place your iPhone in a plastic bag with a few silica packets.
• Put your iPhone in a hearing aid dryer for several hours.

The point with all of these methods is to draw all moisture out of the phone as quickly as possible. Just air-drying the unit is an option, but won’t act as quickly as the aforementioned methods.

If none of these tactics prove effective, and your iPhone loses significant or all functionality, an Apple FAQ states that if you own an iPhone and it requires service for any reason other than the battery (which costs $86 total to replace), Apple will repair your iPhone for the service fee listed below, plus $6.95 for shipping and handling:

• 4GB: $199
• 8GB: $249

Presumably this includes liquid damage, though Apple states “Service may not be available if your iPhone has been damaged due to accident or abuse.”

We’ve received reports from some readers who had success having their liquid-damaged iPhones replaced free of charge by geniuses at the Apple Store, but don’t count on it. This type of replacement is likely only if it can be proven that the device was damaged during routine use.

Multimedia designer, Phil Lu, has created some mockups of an iPhone application that he calls “QuickOrder”:

Surprisingly, the mockups were created before the publicized patent application in which Apple explores to-go ordering from the iPhone. The series of images show how such a system might work.

via http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/

If you’re having problems syncing or restoring your iPhone, Apple recommends that you update to iTunes 7.5. A series of recently revised Knowledge Base articles suggest the update for problems including:

• Exception error when syncing with Yahoo! Address Book (could also be caused by an invalid email address present in your contact list)
• Error “0xE8000025″ when syncing in iTunes for Windows (could also be caused by having non-standard ASCII characters in your account name)
• Error -48 when restoring iPhone (could also be cuased by a bad updater file — empty ~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates under Mac OS X, C:/documents and settings/[yourusername]/Application Data/Apple Computer/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates under Windows XP or C:/users/[yourusername]/AppData/Roaming/Apple Computer/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates under Windows Vista and try the restore again)
• Error 1604 When restoring iPhone in iTunes (you can also try a different USB port or disconnecting other USB devices, or restarting your system)
• Error 11333 when connecting to iTunes Store or activating iPhone

The application Listen, developed by Erica Sadun is nothing new amongst cell phone users of other brands and service providers, but for iPhone users on AT&T, it’s a brand new sight. Listen takes a sample of a song and then looks for it in a song database. Listen then provides a Song Title, Artist, and Album name. Listen lets you search for the song on iTunes or email the information. All listen requires is that you hold the iPhone to the speaker and wait until it’s done recording the 5 second sample.

The application works very well most of the time, but only likes mainstream music. If you try weird genres, it’s most likely not going to come up with a song. You also don’t need to be directly near a speaker. I tested it tonight inside a wrestling gym and as long as the music over powers background noise, you will get a result. Listen can be downloaded from Installer.app

Recently in Installer’s repository has appeared new utility — TuneWiki.

This application is an alternative musical player for your iPhone. What TuneWiki can do:

1. It can find by name the author and the name of music track, its text on their software server;
2. Together with the music track’s text TuneWiki loads timing (when what line of a song to display, subtitles to movies work similarly);
3. After that TuneWiki plays music track and display the text of this track (almost like in karaoke)
 

If timing for a music track is absent, you will be offered to switch lines of a music track during playback.

And, if you thus listen a music track up to the end, your generated timing will be loaded on a server and saved, and other users can listen this music track with text and with your timing. If during listening of a music track the user considers, that flowing timing is wrong, he can make re-sync and rewrite it anew.

Thus, the community will generate a database with texts of different music tracks from all over the world.

TuneWiki exists is developed for Windows users, with similar described by functionality + possibility of texts loading/editing.

Database consists of thousands of texts for the majority of popular music tracks.

TuneWiki restrictions:
* Does not support Russian-speaking names of music authors and music tracks;
* The function of saving of yours timings will work, only if you will be registered on their website of the program and to specify in TuneWiki options your login.

Official site — http://tunewiki.com