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There might be no such thing as truly free beer, but in the world of computers and software, you can often brew your own substitutes to premium paid software and service with just a few double-clicks and some know-how."Expand Your Brain with Evernote

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 That's just a primer to get anyone thinking about making the switch to free started. But we really want to hear what you use—either single, free applications or in combinations—that makes you feel great about not paying for something. Tell us all about it in the comments!

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 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...

By Gina Trapani Bookmark and watch pieces of web pages with this Firefox implementation of Internet Explorer 8's WebSlices feature. Adds iPhone-like informational badges to web pages indicating new unread items, like on Gmail or iGoogle, as pictured. (This was one of my favorites.)

By Gina Trapani Apple releases their second iPhone 2.0 software update through iTunes today. The release notes only say it includes only "bug fixes" (any fixes at this point are welcome, but faster typing and better 3G connectivity are the high hopes), and AppleInsider reports no new settings appear on y...

The iTunes' App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users hundreds of applications to install on their devices, but power users who want functionality above and beyond what Apple's SDK allows still want to jailbreak their device."Google Redesigned Facelifts Gmail and GCal

By Kevin Purdy Connecting your phone by Bluetooth The latest operating systems—Vista, OS X Leopard, and major Linux distros—make Bluetooth connections mostly simple, but I'll run down the specifics. If you're not familiar with how to enable Bluetooth and make your phone "discoverable," or enable o...

If all the methodology of the best GTD applications loses you in the productivity shuffle, there's nothing like a classic, simple to-do list to keep you on track."Philipp Lenssen's Top Google Apps Tips Author of the new O'Reilly book, Google Apps Hacks, Lenssen takes some time out of his b...

By Gina Trapani iPhone 2.0 only: Want to save that string of flirty text messages for posterity (or evidence)? While there's no super-easy way to get your SMS history off your iPhone, with some elbow grease it's possible. While this method is a bit complicated and more proof of concept than anything else, l...

By Gina Trapani When your five-year-old nephew sings "Happy Birthday" to you on your voicemail, you want to keep that message to play back to his friends when he's in college. If you've got an iPhone, there are a few ways to save voicemail audio files to your computer. If you've jailbroken your iPhone, you ca...

By Tamar Weinberg Webapps Love Gmail. I've been making a small move to desktop apps lately, but until Google makes a desktop version of Gmail (not likely) or someone rips off the main tenents of the Gmail interface, I'm not leaving it any time soon.I'm also a big fan of Mediawiki as a software, and—naturally—W...

When you don't want to depend solely on the official App Store to get your iPhone 2.0 applications, you want to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch—and less than two weeks after the iPhone 2.0 launch, it's easier than ever to do with your new device."The Best Tech Tools and Fitness Plans to Get i...

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 Gina Trapani 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. An ambitious goal! At O'Reilly's OSCON conference this week, Shuttleworth said: "I think the great task in front of us...

By Gina Trapani Helpful reader jewdass offered step by step instructions on how to get this done; here they are with annotations and links added. 1. Jailbreak your iPhone 3G (or first gen iPhone running the 2.0 software). Install OpenSSH via Cydia. 3. Join the iPhone to this network via Wi-Fi as usual.

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 :

This comparison below is based on Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Google Apps for your Domain's free version of Gmail. Rules vs. Filters Verdict: Google wins for a simpler, more approachable interface.

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...

 CA - Jun 3, 2008 Regardless of whether Apple's upcoming iPhone and iPod touch App Store is a bang or a bust, there will probably always be a demand for alternate methods of ...

By Kevin Purdy Add email, calendar updates, RSS feeds, and more to your "Slide to unlock" home screen with IntelliScreen, a free application for jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches. Similar to the widgets of Windows Mobile's "Today" screen, the app lets you order and customize what info, and how much o...

By Adam Pash Now that you've got that, start up your FTP client of choice, enter the IP address as you server, and use root for your username and alpine as your password. Once connected, navigate to the Applications folder (just above the root folder). That's where your iPhone and iPod touch keep all of th...

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 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 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 UPDATE: If you've got a new iPod running the latest 1.1.2 firmware, you'll want to follow this guide instead.In less than two-months time, a persistent and merry band of iPhone hackers have been pushing out application after killer application for the iPhone, and hacking your iPhone to ins...

By Adam Pash In less than two-months time, a persistent and merry band of iPhone hackers have been pushing out application after killer application for the iPhone, and hacking your iPhone to install those applications has become dead simple. Today I'll show you how to download, install, and manage t...