Top 5 iPhone App's

1. OneTrip Shopping List - Has a simple and ingenious interface for quickly oganizing and building a shopping list.

2. iPhoneChat - Lets you log into AIM, view your contacts, and handle tabbed chats.

3. Google Reader - Read feeds, has a great interface, after you install it you just have to change the url after entering google reader, so it displays the normal reader rather than googles iPhone view, hen apply the javascript link.

4. iZoho - Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, and Zoho Show. The iPhone can display PDFs, Word docs, and Excel spreadsheets, but with Zoho's tools you can edit some of them.

5. Gas.app - Find the nearest and cheapest gas station by giving the iPhone Gas.app your zip code. You can then click the station to get a Google Map view.

iPhone - Office

It's said that Microsoft, now with the iPhone SDK is considering a version of Office
for iPhone, but they are not the only one, DataViz is working to their Documents To Go solution
to the iPhone.

Latest iPhone firmware unlocked

The latest firmware 1.1.3 has fallen to hackers in less then a week after its release.
This is the result of two hackers working separately. One of the hacks needs hardware modifications so it’s not so good for all of you. The second hack was made by Jonathan Zdziarski, developer of NES emulator for iPhone.
Those hacks of version 1.1.3 firmware are sligtly complicated so it’s posible that a much easier hack will emarge.

Change the firmware - Rock Box

Rock Box it’s an Open Source OS, Linux based for mp3 players, very easy to use and customizable.

It works on iPod( 1st through 5.5th generation, iPod Mini 1st and 2nd generation and 1st generation of iPod Nano), Archos (Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder , Ondio and Recorder V2 ), Cowon ( iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5 and M5L ), iRiver ( H100, H300 and H10 series ), SanDinsk ( Sansa c200, e200 and e200R series ), Toshiba ( Gigabeat X and F series )and other popular mp3 players.

It puts a boot loader so you can chose what SO to use when you start you’re player. Remember it dosen’t erase the original firmware, you have the ability to switch between.

The main futures beside the ones in the standard OS from the producer are:
- create custom playlists directly from the player, On-The-Go playlist creation;
- Text editor (novel), Calculator, games like Dune, Black Jack, Bubbles and many more, a lot more then the standard games and as a Linux based open source it’s very extendable you can install other apps;
- it supports 15 formats of audio codecs;
- very complex audio settings ( 5-band fully-parametric equalizer, and crossfeed );
- Last FM support ;
- MPEG video support;

To install it simply go to www.rockbox.org and download the installer, you have a manual and a forum for support.

Google Earth Weather

Tired of using different programs or searching the web for the weather in different places ? Maybe if you want to go in a holiday or you are simply curious about the weather. Well here is the answer.. download and install Google Earth. Now go to www.googleearthhacks.com. In the weather section you can find a lot of programs like Weather Forecast, Temperature Overlay, Global Cloud Map. It’s better to use one or two of this options. Now select the desired country and click Submit. Next select the overlay you want to use and click Download. After the file was saved open Google Earth and go to File/Open, navigate to the desired overlay and click Open.

iPhone Tips and Tricks

This is an article for the new users of the iPhone:
1. Games. What can you do better then this If you get borred ? Besides music you would like to play on you're iPhone here is a tip, navigate to a dedicated games site for iPhone like the producer's site, and download free games like Assasin, Solitaire or Bejeweld. Have fun !
2. Web Apps. With the incorporated Hi-Fi and the big touch screen, iPhone is one of the best mobile phones on the market, use this advantage and browse the web for iPhone Applications. The best place to start is apple.com/webapps .
3. Use iPhone as a flash drive. 8 GB it's a lot of space for a mobile phone, to use it as a flash driver just download and install this aplication: iPhonelist from this adress: iphonelist.google.com/files/iPhoneList.0.9.1.40-Setup.exe .This powerful program supports Drag and drop to iPhone, as well as file-management functions for the iPhone itself.
4. Instant messaging. iPhone dosen't have a messenger, but you can find a very good one at this address: mundu.com/im/iphone/.

ASHAMPOO OFFICE 2006 - Free Office Suite

From my first encounter with the Office suite from Microsoft I thought it’s to expensive, and I started to search for an alternative, and here it is: Ashampoo Office 2006.

If you want a free Office to manage Word and Excel documents this one of the best choices. Here you will see how easy it’s to obtain a free copy:

1. Download Ashampoo Offiice 2006 from the producer home page or from any site like download.com or softpedia.com.
2. Activation. For installing the program you need a key. For this press the ‘ Get free key ‘ button witch will direct you to the Ashampoo website. Once you have the key, you must write it in the dedicated field and press ‘ Check key ‘ for validation.
3. Open a document. After you installed the program, open the application TextMaker, witch can bee find at Start/All Programs/Ashampoo/Ashampoo Offiice 2006. Open a document with Open or drag and drop in the window.

That’s about it, I will let you discover the great options of the Office suite from Ashampoo.