Downloads for iPhone: 8 Steps of iPhone Personalization

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The ancient proverb says: Old habits die hard. Once you had your old-school mobile phone. And you did your best to personalize it. Now you are an owner of iPhone. BUT it is possible to personalize any kind of device (regardless if it is a car or you PC monitor). All the things are personalizible. The same with the iPhone. There are things (and they are available to everyone) that can make you favorite phone stand out in a crowd.

So I decided to make up a list of 8 steps you can make to personalize your iPhone:

1. Ringtones

Ringtones are the most popular way of personalizing of any phone, aren’t they? The same with iPhone: you can find hundreds of web-services that offer ringtone downloads.

2. Wallpaper / screen savers

It is a common knowledge that images and sounds are the best ways of personalizing any kind of device. As the iPhone has a lot of inbuilt memory you can download dozens of images including your photos etc. Placing one of these images as wallpaper or a screensaver will make you device distinct.

3. Videos

Video is one of the priorities of the modern mobile industry. There are hundreds of free and paid video services you can subscribe to. Using your iPhone you can watch streaming videos and download your favorite films. Isn’t that a great way of personalizing the iPhone?

4. Games

You can tell a lot about a person by just looking through the list of games on his/her iPhone. Whether he is an adventure hunter or car enthusiast or whatever.

5. VoIP

VoIP feature is a great way to economize calling other people. If one can see the advantages of combining voice, data and images on his/her iPhone, the person can be regarded as a reasonable one.

6. SMS messages

The way you message people can tell a lot about you. By creating your own style of making up messages can become your second business card.

7. Music

iPhone storage memory allows you to save hundreds of tracks. And I stick to the idea that the playlist of a person can tell you much more than the games he plays or the images he downloads. The music the person listens to illustrates his inner world and his current mood. It is a great way of personalizing your iPhone, isn’t it?

8. Accessories

And the last but not the least way to personalize your iPhone is applying this or that accessory to it. You can use weird accessories as well as the traditional ones (as, for instance, cases). The way your iPhone’s exterior looks like is a powerful way to make it different from others.

iPhone Download: How to Choose the Best Sites?

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iPhone Download: How to Choose the Best Sites?

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If you are a lucky owner of an iPhone (as I definitely am) you have the opportunity to listen to dozens of CDs and watch hundreds of movies. Moreover, you can save the valuable space on the hard drive of your computer by saving the media on the iPhone. Another option is watch the favorite movies and TV shows life.

But before doing all these amazing things you have to find credible and reliable sources for iPhone downloads. What does that mean? Basically, it means finding the sites that will supply you with the required data and which are affordable for you.

Pay attention to the prices

Some web-pages for iPhone charge money per song (or per movie etc.) At first, the number may seem small enough to buy the media you like, but if try summing them up, you will find out that all the files you like cost a fortune. It is even more true for long TV shows or movies, because usually they are much more costly than short songs.

So you seen that if you plan to use the site often it is stupid to choose the one that charged per downloaded item. Instead of it, look for a site with a flat-rate charge (it can be a weekly, monthly, yearly etc. fee). But in the long run the best offer is the lifetime fee, because it will definitely help you save money.

How do I Choose?

If you plan to download the content frequently and in large quantities, you’d better look for a site with a lifetime fee and unlimited access to downloads. It means that you are not overcharged if you want to download content all round the clock 7 days a week.

You should stop your choice on the site with a user-friendly interface. How to decide whether the site has one? It should possess a free-trial feature. You don’t need a service that is basically complicated to use, do you? Why find a service where you will spend the majority of your time trying to find out how it works instead of downloading the content?

Pay attention to such features as Tech support and customer service. If the service has neither you might be left with unsolved problem totally alone. These must be a phone number where you can call in case anything goes wrong. Moreover, take into consideration the speed of downloading. If it is not high enough, you don’t want to wait for a song to download for a week, do you?

A few days ago I published a list of reliable iPhone sources. You can check it up here.

Here are my basic tips for choosing a download source for your iPhone. May be you have any additional suggestions?

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CoverScout For Collecting iTunes

Do you remember Cover Flow for iTunes first introduced, when lots of people were really excited to browse through their music and movies by beautiful covers, like viewing stands of CDs at a music store? But users of Cover Flow faced very few album covers associated with the music library and that case made it almost useless. The desire was so initial that something new and more expanded has to be introduced.

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CoverScout is a new program available, which will search several online databases to track down cover art for you and to get back that feeling of choosing CDs at a music store. Though you will have to register after a trial period (for money of course), it fills in the blanks of your music library.

Like other programs of this type, CoverScout searches the Amazon.com database for matches, and , what is more, it searches Google images too and can perform multiple searches simultaneously. Add any covered tune with just one click!

It can also seek out art for singles and compilations with its advanced search system, so you’re not limited to just the main stream albums. And if CoverScout can’t find what you’re looking for, don’t be frustrated, because now you can use it to shoot  pictures of your CD cover with a webcam to fill the art in manually, so every album can be provided with cover.

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Mac OS X 10.3.9, iTunes 6.0.2 or newer are required to use it.

Cover Flow was great, but it represented from your library. With CoverScout, your iTunes music library will be full enough with covers you want and your visual perception will be satisfied. Flip through your albums the way Cover Flow should be used.

CoverScout 2.3.7 is avaliable for downloading

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Downloads for iPhone: Application Sources List

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We all know that Apple has allowed third party applications to be downloaded to the iPhone. We also know that there are a great number of companies and individuals who develops these application. The number is so great the one single post cannot cover them all.

Nevertheless, I made an attempt to systematize the most frequently visited sources (note that I didn’t say that they are the most reliable ones), and made up a kind of a list of iPhone Application sources:

Community Sources:

Various Sources:

Languages Sources:

If you still think that those sources are not enough for you, you can visit the following sites with other iPhone application sources:

iPhone Firmware 2.0 Beta review: What’s new

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iPhone Firmware 2.0 Beta review: What’s new

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With the forthcoming release of the new iPhone, the Internet is starting to get flooded by multiple videos with the new device. Some of theses videos are true fakes, but some seem quite credible.

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Yet Apple has recently released iPhone 2.0 beta and I was lucky to have one for a test (in fact the gadget will be officially released in June). Some of the changes are still to come, but some of them will be unveiled by me for you right now:

That really sounds great, doesn’t it? A lot of features (as I have already mentioned above) are still to come. So all we can do at this point is sit, wait and wonder!

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