Apple says that its app store has hit the 10 billion downloads mark. The milestone, announced on Apple Inc.’s website Saturday, arrives as the company’s hugely popular smart phone is likely to become even more popular with the addition next month of Verizon Wireless as a carrier.
FriendZoo by Aspyr is a nice application that allows you to map your contacts as animals of a virtual zoo, with lots of atmosphere appropriate for each of them.
With this app you can convert each of their contacts in a different animal, choosing from 18 different species placed in 5 unique scenery of nature, and assigning each to the animal features more appropriate.
You can call, send text messages and emails to each "animal contact", and not only: the more we interact with someone, the more relevant the animal appears happy and satisfied inside the zoo.
The application does not offer any particular option to make it indispensable in any case it is a nice software. For those who want to try it, here’s the direct link respectively Store to download FriendZoo, at a cost of 2.39 euros.
To configure IMAP for your iPhone, just watch video config or follow these steps:
And you’re done. You can verify your Advanced settings by tapping Settings > [your Gmail IMAP Account] > Advanced.
Incoming Settings
Use SSL: ON
Authentication: password
Server Port: 993Outgoing Settings
Use SSL: ON
Authentication: Password
Server Port: 587
Via Google Gmail How to
Here is what The register claims:
It is an article of faith, of course, that whatever Steve Jobs does is right. And so, since the iPhone currently has no keyboard on it, it must logically follow that it is wrong to have a keyboard, and therefore that Steve Jobs will never produce a version that does have a keyboard.
Fervent fans can therefore see no reason to change the iPhone from its current "type on the touch screen, or not at all" design. As one of the more zealous remarked when the suggestion was even mentioned: "The only people who think it needs a keyboard are people who have never used it."
Warning: Recent Apple Software updates may ‘brick’ your iPhone if you carry jailbreak it or unlock the handset from Apple’s preferred network provider.
The Apple iPhone was designed to be a closed system with Apple preventing any third-party applications, games or utilities being added to it.
However because the operating system is based on Unix industrious programmers have already found various methods of bypassing Apple’s ‘barriers’ and allowing people to add new software to their iPhones.
At first this meant a lot of rather scary programming processes with names like ‘jailbreak’ which were enough to have the typical iPhone user running for the hills while cradling their iPod protectively.
But in recent weeks many of these indimidating command line routines have matured into simple, easy-to-install programs that safely open your iPhone to new features such as IM, RSS readers, games and more.
One of the best of these is called AppTapp and it’s now available for both Windows and Mac computers – although inevitably it’s easier to install on Macs.
1) Adium
One of the best IM clients ever made. It supports nearly every client ever made, only skype isn’t supported. Video and voice chat are in development. It is one of the best applications I have ever tried. For a blogger it is great as you can connect on any protocol and be chatting in minutes.
2) Backdrop
A lot of the time you will be taking pictures of windows within your OS, especially for tutorials or designers. The problem is, not every one wants to see your wallpaper or your icons. As well as this I use my desktop for storing some personal information. Backdrop provides you a very simple way to hide your desktop through the use of a solid background or a chosen picture of you choice. It hides everything behind the current active application. A great app.
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One day a friend of mine on the team printed off a couple dozen screenshots of Leopard, showing off various tasks the user can do in OS X, and hung them on one of our hallways. Across from it are pictures of the same tasks in that incredibly well-kept secret of a project that we’re working on. There are post-it notes and markers next to each wall where passersby leave comments / questions.
I wonder if any hallways in Cupertino have something like that?
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Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages.
It’s written in Objective-C using the Cocoa API and the WebKit framework.
It was inspired by webkit2png which is a commandline tool written by Paul Hammond in pyObjC, so all intellectual credit for the basic functionality goes to him. 
Paparazzi! requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later. The current version is 0.4.3.
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By default, iPhone doesn’t require you to enter a passcode to unlock it but You can add an extra layer of security to your iPhone by using the Passcode Lock feature.
How to set a Passcode?
Click the Home button to bring up the main menu
Click on Settings
In the Settings screen click on General
In the General screen click on Passcode Lock
Amajor downside with online Office programs (like Google Docs) is that they require an Internet connection – that means if you are on an airplane, a cab or some remote village that has no Internet, you may not be able to create/ edit or print your documents, spreadsheets and presentations that are stored online.If this “always on” factor forcing you to stay away from any of these online office suites, some good news – the very impressive online word processor in Zoho Office suite is now available for both online and offline use through Google Gears.
To use Zoho Writer in offline mode, just install Google Gears and restart your web browser. Then login to your Zoho account and click the link at the top that says “Go Offline.”
Google Gears browser extension is available for both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
This will download all the recent documents from your Zoho online account to the hard drive. Now when you unplug the Internet cable and go offline, you will still be able to edit and save your documents inside the web browser just like you could do in online mode.
And the next time you connect to the Internet, all the changes made to documents locally will automatically be synchronized with the online copy so there are no discrepancies and you always have one version to work with.
The offline mode in Zoho Office will also prove useful in places where Wi-Fi is expensive like in the hotel rooms or the airport lounge – just connect to the internet, download the documents locally and then go offline to make those last-minute edits.
The offline feature is currently only available for Zoho Office but one can safely assume that the Google Docs team is also working on adding a similar feature to their product.
[via labnol.org]