Apple iPod

By Kevin Purdy The first thing to do is ensure your computer or laptop has Bluetooth capabilities—if you don't see a Bluetooth icon in Windows' Control Panel, chances are it doesn't. If you still want to get in, you can often get a USB-connected Bluetooth dongle for very little cash ($5 and up). If you do hav...

By Adam Pash Mac app 1Password is a commercial password manager and form filler for Mac OS X. Like RoboForm for Windows, 1Password integrates directly with your browser (Firefox or Safari) to auto-fill logins and forms. Like most of the rest, 1Password can automatically generate secure passwords fo...

By Kevin Purdy Services like GoToMyPC and those of its ilk do offer an easy-to-grasp setup and interface, but for the most part, they put a fancy face on free software and protocols, like VNC and VPN. If you're tech-savvy, you can help mom set up her home PC or Mac for those oops-I-forgot-that-file moments...

By Adam Pash If you're headed back to school this semester with an iPhone or iPod touch in your pocket, you're in luck: The iTunes App Store is filled with applications to make your life easier as a student and as the hip young college type you are. Whether you're hitting the books or the bars, keep reading...

By The How-To Geek Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Clear the Clipboard in Windows Vista>> Turn the Windows Firewall On or Off Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Turn Windows Vista Firewall On or Off>> Create a System Restore Point Create Icons to Start the Screensaver on Windows Vista>> Shut...

By Adam Pash You can also capture and upload screenshots to Evernote using Evernote's Windows system tray application or the Mac OS X menu bar app. On a Mac, you can even create a new note from your iSight webcam, and—naturally—you can upload any photo you take with your digital camera.

By Jason Fitzpatrick Finally if you have a Windows Mobile phone but visions of the iPhone keep you up at night, check out our tutorial on turning your Windows Mobile phone into a psuedo-iPhone. While some people might scoff at the idea of trying to turn a Windows Mobile phone into an iPhone, there are features on t...

Several Linux users in the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell Flickr group are showing off their Ubuntu Hardy Heron desktops—dressed up as a Mac."Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 Jailbreaks iPhone 2.0.1 Software Mac only: The iPhone 2.0 jailbreak utility for Mac, PwnageTool, has just been updated to accommo...

By Gina Trapani Apple releases the first update to the iPhone 2.0 software for the iPhone and iPod touch, which promises bug fixes (hopefully these bugs). Hit Update in iTunes to get it. Installing this update WILL de-jailbreak your phone until the jailbreak software updates.

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By Tamar Weinberg Hardware Hardware My primary operating system at this time is Windows XP Pro. Ah yes, a Mac OS would be nice, but I've been procrastinating on making the plunge! Windows XP does what I need. Additionally, I run a Fedora 9 box in the corner of my apartment and am always SSH'd into it to tinker arou...

By Tamar Weinberg Hardware My main computer is a Dell XPS M1710 laptop, but I built the two desktops I use (they run Windows XP and Fedora 9). I test Lifehacker software on another old Dell laptop. I also have a Macbook Air that I haven't yet used. I know Gina is going to kill me when she reads this.

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth (who we interviewed last year) announced that he's out to make Linux a better-looking operating system than Mac OS X—within two years."DVD Catalyst Rips DVDs to Friendly Formats in One Click Windows only: Free application DVD Catalyst Free rips videos...

By Adam Pash If you don't feel like you're getting all you can from the iPhone App Store and other perks of the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software, then jailbreaking is for you. We've already shown you how to jailbreak your iPhone 2.0 on a Mac, but yesterday the Windows version of the iPhone jailbreak tool—c...

By Adam Pash If you're not keen on the web-based route, the Mac-only TrailRunner is an incredible desktop application that tackles many of the same features with a quick and very attractive interface. TrailRunner even integrates with Nike+ iPod, Google Earth, and your GPS (though MapMyRun does GPS...

By Gina Trapani As per the very helpful Mac OSx86 blog: People with old iPhone V1 (2G) will need to download this firmware from Apple : iPhone 2.0 (5A347) firmware for 2G (10121)People with new iPhone V2 (3G) will need to download this firmware from Apple :

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By Kevin Purdy iPhone/iPod touch only: Free music discovery service Last.fm has launched its own iPhone/iPod touch 2.0 app, and it does exactly what you'd hope it would, with a few caveats. The interface is straightforward and simple, at least for experienced Last.fm users—launch the app, then choose fr...

By Gina Trapani If you've already got an iPhone or an iPod touch and you aren't planning to buy the new iPhone 3G, you've still got goodies coming your way from Apple this week. Right beside the iPhone 3G, Apple is set to release the iPhone 2.0 software update, its new App Store, and iTunes 7.7 (now available!)—...

Now you can install Leopard on your computer about as easily as installing Leopard on a Mac—no command line hacking required."The 20 Best iPhone and iPod touch Applications Today I'm taking a look at my 20 favorite (that's right, 20) third-party iPhone and iPod touch apps."Top 10 Obscure G...

By Adam Pash Once you've got that, enter it in the computer you're streaming from in the text box next to the UDP checkbox you just enabled. Hit OK to accept your settings, then OK again to finish the setup. While you're still on the streaming computer, go to Settings -> Add Interface -> Web Interfac...

By Kevin Purdy 5. All-In-One Video Bookmarklet There are tons of extensions and software apps for grabbing video off YouTube and other Flash-based sites, but you can just as easily grab videos in Flash, .avi, and iPod-friendly MP4 formats with this handy link. The bookmarklet supports YouTube, Metacaf...

By Adam Pash Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced several new Apple products and developments today—most notably, what we can expect from the iPhone 2.0 firmware, the new .Mac replacement MobileMe, and, of course, the new 3G iPhone. Now that we've all had a little time to digest what we saw, we're taking a look...

By Gina Trapani 11:11 AM: iPhone 2.0 software will be released in early July—FREE for all iPhone owners. $9.95 for iPod touch owners. 11:12 AM: Waittasecond, the new iPhone software in July? But what about right this SECOND! 11:47 AM: New iPhone available on July 11th.

By Adam Pash There's a lot of speculation as to what we can expect from next week's iPhone announcements, but there's one thing you can be sure of: The iPhone's location-aware features will change your life. Whether that means pinpointing your location on a Google Map (which iPhone's already do), tra...

By Adam Pash By this time next week, major iPhone announcements will probably make jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod touch unnecessary to run third-party applications—but right now you can get some killer features on your device by unlocking it the unofficial way. We're all excited about Apple's im...

By Kevin Purdy Apple may open up its iPhone and iPod touch devices to third-party apps next month, but the chances that Linux users will get invited to the party are slim at best. That hasn't stopped some intrepid hackers from coming up with a better music-syncing solution than the one Mac and Windows user...

By Adam Pash 2.) iPhone headphones with mics don't work with the iPod touch, so if you're using an iPod touch you'll need a Touchmod mic. The Touchmod mics come in a variety of flavors, from the simple dongle that plugs into the syncing port to the headphone-and-mic combo that works much like the iPhone he...

By Adam Pash Quit iTunes. (This may not be strictly necessary, but it's a good practice.) Choose the option that applies to you: iPod touch jailbreak or iPhone jailbreak. ZiPhone will cycle your device into recovery mode, perform the jailbreak, and in 45 seconds your iPhone or iPod touch will be officia...

By Adam Pash Managing music between your iPod and your iTunes library can be cumbersome at times, if only because you can't actually do a lot of management on your actual iPod. To that end, a howto from DIY web site Instructables details how to automatically remove unwanted songs from your iPod using sm...

By Adam Pash Web site Pediaphon turns any Wikipedia article into an MP3. The site plugs the article into a text-to-speech synthesis app, and while the synthesis isn't the best you've ever heard (what is this lif - eh - hacker, anyway?), it's very fast, meaning you could plug in an article and sync the MP3...

By Adam Pash Steve Jobs' Macworld keynote was today, and among a bevy of new hardware announcements, Apple has pushed out two very significant updates for iPhone and iPod touch users. Apple has added multi-recipient SMS (iPhone-only), faux-GPS on Google Maps using cell tower triangulation, Web Cl...

By Adam Pash Last week we showed you how to install third party apps on your iPhone or iPod touch, and since then a new firmware preview has leaked its way to the 'nets with saucy new features that—once released—may tempt you to abandon your jailbreak for the newly introduced features. Fact is, until the...

By Adam Pash I've got a bad habit of losing or scratching up my optical media, which is why one of the first things I do when I buy a new operating system—like Leopard—is copy an image of the disc to my hard drive. Once it's in the digital realm on my hard drive, I can rest assured that no carelessness on my part...

By Kevin Purdy Those with non-touch iPods and Macs have an easy solution in iCal, which can subscribe to Google Calendars and sync through iTunes. Windows users with older iPods—the kind that still have "Enable Disk Use" as an option in iTunes—can sync through Outlook or try a stand-alone solution:Get...

By Adam Pash On the other hand, if you're willing to spend just a few bucks and roll up your sleeves, you can upgrade your computer's components and see significant improvements. Upgrade Your RAM: Installing new RAM in your computer can provide huge speed improvements that most people don't really be...

By Adam Pash First, you should have already performed the dead simple one-click jailbreak, which will install Installer.app on your iPhone or iPod touch. Now you'll need to run Installer.app and add a new repository to your sources. Here's how that works:

By Adam Pash Jailbreaking the iPod touch/iPhone is now an utterly simple, one-click affair—which means if you've been waiting to jailbreak your iPod touch or iPhone (since the 1.1.1 firmware upgrade), the time is now. Just point your Safari browser to http://jailbreakme.com/ and click the Install Ap...

By Adam Pash DIY web site Instructables details how to make a free iPod touch dock with the MP3 player's slick packaging. As any iPod aficionado knows, iPods used to come bundled with docks. Now it seems only the iPod shuffle and iPhone get the privilege of free dockdom, which is why we've seen tons of DIY d...

By Gina Trapani Apple's line is that all iPhone apps will run in a browser, but an unofficial application installer's out there, ready to get third-party software—from IM clients to ringtone makers to voice note recorders—running on your iPhone. Here's how to install third-party applications on your...

Windows only: Shareware application ShrinkMyTunes promises to fit anywhere from two to four times more music on your iPod by shrinking your MP3s while retaining most of their quality. Hot on the heels of Apple's announcement of the enticing yet light-on-storage iPod touch, this type of...

Build a DIY car mount for your MP3 player with web site Cloudcraft.com's step-by-step guide. The guide uses a simple fifty cent hardware mount that the author inserts in his Volkswagen and then clips his iPod to with his existing belt clip whenever he's ready for some iPod time in the car (the...

It's a relatively straightforward process, great for anyone who (for whatever reason) is not happy with iTunes as the default music management system. I was able to test it out within about five minutes; your mileage may vary depending on how many songs you have on your iPod. How to use Winam...

This week I'll show you how to free yourself from the one computer, one music library shackles of iTunes using alternative software for managing the iPod. When you're done here, you'll be able to add music and movies to your iPod from ...

You can, provided you have the right tools and some time to kill. With free software and this tutorial, you can copy almost any DVD in your library to your iPod for on-the-go viewing. Let's get ripping.Lucky Mac usersMac users have an easy solution in the form of open source gem Instant HandBra...

Adam did a rundown of how to get the most out of your new video iPod, then what to do with that old, outdated iPod it replaced. Put your new laptop on steroids with these laptop power tips. Put a stop to those data loss nightmares and start backing up your hard drive.

Actually, you could easily accomplish something like this with any number of programs designed to copy tunes from the iPod to your computer. If you're not set on using iTunes, you could load the music on the iPod and let your sister manage everything using the method described in my self-su...

Not headed back to school this fall? You could be, minus the exorbitant tuition and without even leaving your chair."Play games on your iPod for FREE Play video games like Texas Hold 'Em, Tetris, and Bejeweled (all of which are for sale at the iTunes Store) on pretty much any iPod with a littl...

When your installation is complete, go to iTunes and eject your iPod. You may have to plug your iPod into the wall outlet to complete the installation, but the next time your iPod starts up you should be able to boot into iPodLinux. Step two: Load some games

From dead iPod batteries to flirtatious iTunes libraries to job search to identity theft - here's a recap of this past March's posts on Lifehacker. Rename large sets of files quickly and easily. Know what do to when your iPod battery dies. Save frequent Gmail searches.