Filed under: iPod Family, iTS, Video, iTunes, Apple, iPhone, Apple TV

Rejoice UK readers — there’s more overpriced easily accessible video programming available on our delectable iTunes Store: Wallace and Gromit (which I’ll confess to buying right now - a poor show of form, given my loathing of iTunes’ DRM love-in) and a whole plethora of Warner Bros content consisting of:

• Friends
• Wonder Woman
• V: The Complete Series
• Babylon 5
• West Wing
• The Jetsons
• The Flintstones
• Martin

Costing you a mere £1.89 (that’s US$3.60 — yes, more than our American brethren pay) per episode, if you’re dying for something else to watch on your iPod or iPhone then you can finally grab some more video content from iTunes. As ever, movies continue to be missing in action, but there’s hope given that Steve Jobs would ‘love’ to get iTunes rental worldwide during 2008.

Thanks to those who sent this in!

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Here’s an annoying problem with a surprisingly simple solution. After upgrading to 1.1.3, many users found they could no longer properly sync their iPhones. If your iPhone or iPod touch develops a missing pairing record problem, you can fix things by…rebooting your computer. If this saves anyone else an hour or two of head-scratching, tech support and google-fu, then my job is, as they say, done.

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Filed under: iPod Family, Cool tools, iPhone

TUAW reader Gert S. writes “Are you aware of any NTP application that could set the system time on an iPhone or Touch ? I was browsing through the bin directories and no NTP client was found. I sure could use this util, even on the command line, to ensure my clock is running on time.”

iPhone developer extraordinaire “core” to the rescue! In response to Gert’s letter, core dashed off this iPhone-based NTP tool–because that’s the kind of insanely wonderful guy he is. If you like core’s development work and feel like droping a thank you note, you can contact him here.

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The MPAA has never been too high on college kids — remember the dishonor roll? — but it looks like Hollywood set is bummed about not being invited to that last kegger, because the MPAA is now admitting that it drastically overstated the effect of college downloading in previous studies. Back in 2005, the MPAA claimed that a whopping 44 percent of revenue losses came directly at the hands of carefree coeds nationwide, and used that number to pressure colleges into enforcing harsher downloading policies and even propose legislation currently before Congress that would tie federal education funds to copyright enforcement requirements. We’re not sure why the industry is now backing off that 44 percent number, but it’s now saying that “human error” resulted in a miscalculation, and the revenue loss from college piracy is more like 15 percent — a number which is further disputed by campus IT groups, who say it should be more like three percent. Of course, while it’s good to see the MPAA take an upfront stance on this, simply admitting you’re sleazy doesn’t actually wipe the slime off, so let’s see how the industry approaches future studies, shall we?

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Filed under: iPod Family, How-tos, iPhone, iPhone 101

Here are two simple but useful tips from TUAW readers David B Alford and Andrew Akker that help you navigate through your iPhone or iPod home screens. David points out that if you tap just to the left or to the right of the dots at the bottom of your screen, you can move a page at a time without having to drag. Tap left, you move left. Tap right, you move right. It’s quick and it’s easy.

Andrew figured out how to pause his drag Home screen drags. If you start to move between screens by dragging and then tap the dots control during that drag, screen pauses. You’ll see bits of both home screens at once, and can interact with them normally by tapping icons. You can see up to 24 icons at once (16 off to one side, 4 along the other side, and 4 in the bar at the bottom).

I’ve tested both tips extensively and they work great — two really nice additions to one’s Home-screens skills.

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If you’re using version 1.1.3 of the iPhone or iPod touch-with-January-Upgrade , you’ll probably encountered Web Clips. Web Clips add home screen icons that lead to your favorite sites. It’s easy enough to make Web Clips, just tap the “+” button at the bottom of any MobileSafari webpage and choose Add to Home Screen from the pop-up menu (and yes, we’re working on one for TUAW).

Continue reading How Web Clips Work

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Filed under: iPod Family, Hacks, How-tos, iPhone

Hack That Phone has put up an especially well-done 1.1.3 downgrade guide that walks you through everything from the actual downgrade to restoring your baseband and revirginizing your iPhone. If you’re suffering from 1.1.3-upgrade-regret, a surplus of pictures and easy-to-follow instructions will help you work through your downgrade.

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Filed under: Macworld, iPod Family, Video, Education

Raybook licenses Cliff’s Notes, Netter’s Anatomy and other flash card and quick-learning properties, squeezes them down to miniature size, and crams them into iPods. Perhaps that is an oversimplification, but so is the Cliff’s Notes version of ‘War and Peace.’ While a lot of “study guides” on the iPod use the Notes features, basically a stack of linked text files, Raybook uses the photos feature in your iPod to create some rather stunning flash cards. Check out Scott’s interview after the jump to see them in action.

Continue reading Show floor video: Raybook study guides on your iPod

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Filed under: Accessories, iPod Family

It looks like today is going to be all about unique iPod speaker systems. First I showed you how to make the packaging your iPod came with into a speaker, and now I shall turn your attention to the thodio iBox. The iBox is handmade out of a variety of woods (you can choose from teak, beech, oak, or zebrano) and is battery powered so you can tote these unique speakers with you no matter where you go. The iBox starts at 359€, so they aren’t for everyone but they certainly are conversation starters.

[via Retro Thing]

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Filed under: Accessories, iPod Family

I like the planet as much as the next guy (unless I’m standing next to the commander of an alien force bent on destroying the Earth, in which case I like the planet much more than the next guy), and since Apple is trying to be more environmentally friendly I figured I might as well give it a go myself. The Bird-Electron EZ17-B iPod Recycling Speaker looks like it might help me achieve two goals: help the planet, and own more gadgets.

The Bird-Electron EZ17-B allows you to both reduce and reuse all at the same time, even while you try to figure out what its name means. That’s right, this little $40 wonder magically transforms the package your Shuffle (2nd or 3rd gen) or Nano (1st or 2nd Gen) was contained in into a small speaker. Chances are that this little speaker isn’t going to blow your mind in terms of volume or fidelity, but it will make you feel just a tad bit better than your fellow man and when it comes right down to it isn’t that why we all use Apple products to begin with?

[via One Digital Life]

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