3 High-Tech Features Of The Apple Iphone

What's the big deal behind the Apple iPhone? It's expensive. It's revolutionary. But are its features worth the money?

With all the popularity, you can assume everyone's at least heard about it. What does the Apple iPhone feature and what can it do?

1) Multi-Touch Technology

The most outstanding feature is the iPhone's radical multi-touch screen. The MT screen allows any mechanical button to appear on this high tech toy. It simply allows you to use your fingers to operate it. This is contrary to any other phone today, which either have mechanical keyboards or a stylus.

By tapping the screen with your finger, you can navigate menus, dial phone numbers, write e-mail messages and likewise use the whole functionality of the popular gadget. The three-point-five-inch screen displays a keyboard for inputting text via multi-touch. Most consumers are seemingly skeptical about typing with the virtual keyboard, but Apple has predicted the common problems and has made sure the iPhone was constructed with features like automatic spell check and word prediction, not to mention an enhanced customizable dictionary. More so, the iPhone addresses the problems of typos commonly known to multi-touch usage by adding self-correction capabilities.

When scrolling, the usual wheel is not found at the side of the gadget. The multi-touch screen functionality allows its owner to scroll by dragging a finger in the desired direction. The speed of scrolling is designed to be proportional to the speed at which you drag your finger.

The multi-touch feature furthermore enables several more functions like multi-touch sensing for magnifying or reducing photos and even web pages. Using this feature, you can regulate object size simply by placing two fingers at the side of the object and then moving them, by dragging, either further apart or closer to one another. This feature does not distort images because images are initially scaled according to its original dimensions in the first place.

Hands down, the iPhone is more intelligent than any other phone today.

2) Revolutionary Sensors

The gadget's sensors have the ability to detect changes to the iPhone's environment. The sensors are minuscule yet absurdly powerful. The three major sensors include an accelerometer, sensor for ambient light, and a proximity sensor.

The accelerometer sensor conveys the ability to detect any changes in the iPhones positioning. ...The iPhone's screen display will actually rotate to portrait or landscape, while still packing its contents into the 3.5-inch screen. Because it changes the view according to ratio, images are not distorted among web pages, videos, or photos.

The proximity sensors.

These high-tech features detect the location of the iPhone with regard to the skin. When you make a call and hold the iPhone up against your ear, the display will automatically set to standby. This is important in that it serves two basic functions.

One, by shutting off the display when not necessarily needed, this saves your battery's life. More so, this avoids accidental touches to the screen, which would otherwise be sensitive. As soon as the cell is moved away from your face, the proximity sensors react in this way.

Ambient light sensor.

Through the AL sensor, changes in the phone's environment are detected and instantaneously adjust the display's brightness. Your iPhone's display will always be well adjusted in regard to lighting.

3) Mac OS X Operating System

The hype behind the Apple iPhone increased when Mac fans found out the Mac OS X would be included. The Mac OS X is the operating system inside the latest Apple computers. On the other hand, the electronic doesn't have the complete functionality of the operating system. The entire OS X is too large to fit within the 4GB or 8GB internal memory. The iPhone contains a 500 MB version of the operating system.


Author: Jason Parker

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Alternative Video Player To End All Video Players

I don't know about you but I am not a big fan of the built in media player that comes with Windows. It just doesn't play the stuff I want it to play 99% of the time. Mostly because of it's limited library of codecs or format support.

For a while I have been using Media Player Classic as a part of the K-Lite Codec pack which works pretty well for most things, but it will not play Quicktime files. For that I still need to download Quicktime.

I needed something that would play everything and just simply work. Luckily I found it in Miro Video Player. Miro plays every video and audio format known to man including Quicktime, and Linux based formats like OGG. Another cool thing about Miro is it is available for Windows, Linux and Mac users.

Here is a list of features from their website:

Play Almost Anything
Forget about the format wars. Miro can play MPEG, Quicktime, AVI, H.264, Divx, Windows Media, Flash Video, and almost every other major video format.

One After Another
Set your Miro preferences to either play videos one after another (in the order they appear) or to play a video then stop. If you have Miro set to play videos one after another, you can always right-click on an individual video and have it play then stop.

Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts for all the key playback commands makes it easy to configure a remote control.

Video Playlists
Bring together your favorite videos into a playlist. You can drag them one by one or select a few and right-click to add to a playlist or odd create a new playlist that they will be added to.

Thumbnail Creation
Miro will create a thumbnail for any video that doesn't have one.

Channel and Playlist Folders
Group your channels by topic by creating folders. Do the same for playlists.

Watch Any Folder
Videos can come in from lots of places-- a web browser, email, a p2p application, or Miro. Miro can watch any folder on your computer and include those videos in your collection. So when you save something to your desktop, for instance, it will show up in Miro without needing to be added manually.

Move Your Library
Running out of space? Miro can move your video collection to any location on your system, such as an external hard drive.

Bring Your Videos Together
When you install Miro, you can search you computer to find all your video files and list them in your Miro Library.

For a complete list of features click here (Miro Features)

Take a look at this demo video:





So the choice really comes down to what you prefer. Do you like having multiple applications installed that basically do the same thing, but can only support certain formats, or do you want to cut out all the bull crap and install something that plays everything? I knew you would do the right thing.

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Want to Change The Apple Color at Boot Up On Your MAC?

I am primarily a Windows and Linux user. I have never really messed with MAC's too much. Not that I have anything against MAC's it's just not something I have bought into too much. I think it goes back to your first computer. For me it was a Packard Bell running Windows 95.

Enough about that though. As I have mentioned before, on my Windows boxes I use StyleXP to change the boot screen from the standard Windows splash screen to something more custom. On my Ubuntu laptop, I have found plenty of USplash screens at Gnome-Look.org. For MAC's, I have never really though about it.

That is until now. I found an application for MAC called BootXChanger that will allow you to change the Apple logo at boot up to the color or image of your choice.

There are some limitations of BootXChanger though. This is from their website:

BootXChanger will not change the background colour of the boot screen, so the background of your images must be the same (#BFBFBF). This is done so it won't spoil the spinner animation. For the same reason, there is a limited number of colours your image can use. If your image has too many, it will be reduced and probably look ugly. If this happens, you can try saving the image in GIF or PNG-8 with Photoshop, and making sure it uses 100 colours or less. On Intel Macs, it's even worse: images have to be compressed to fit in the boot file. If your image is too complex and doesn't fit, BootXChanger will show a message and you won't be able to apply it. Simply put:

• You can't change the background colour, it's #BFBFBF
• Use an image with less than 100 colours
• On Intel Macs, use simpler shapes or smaller images

Granted, it isn't quite the same as StyleXP or a new USplash theme, but it does allow for some customization on your MAC. Do you know of a better application for MAC's that allow you to make similar customizations as StyleXP? Let me know in the comments.

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Happy Holidays From Bauer-Power

I will be out of town for the next week and a half with limited access to the computer. Therefore it is more likely than not that I will not be back to update the blog everyday like I normally do. In fact, my wife was very adamant about me not blogging while we are at her aunt's house for Christmas.

I know I said the same thing during Thanksgiving, but this time I mean it. Sure I may throw a post or two up, but it certainly will not be everyday.

To keep everyone mildly happy though, I will post this Youtube widget that will play random technology videos while I am gone. Please check back everyday for a new video.

Watch the latest videos on YouTube.com

I hope everyone has a very Happy Holiday, and a wonderful New Year! Thanks for reading, and for staying loyal all year! We hope to see all of you (and your friends) back again in 2008!

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Ripping DVD's on a MAC

A week or so ago I got an IM from my buddy Carnell. He told me that he is trying to go completely Microsoft free. He has sold all of his computers, and replaced them with MACs, and on his home server he replaced Windows 2003 server with Ubuntu (Did I get that all right Carnell?). Anyway, back to the IM. He wanted to know if I knew of a program that he could use on MAC to rip DVDs.

I found a tool called MAC The Ripper that does just that. Here is a brief description from their website:

MacTheRipper is a free DVD ripper (extractor) for Mac OS X. It can extract commercial DVD movies to your hard drive, minus all the copy protections and region controls put in place by DVD publishers. You can then use various tools to burn the movie back to DVD-R for use in DVD players, or convert the movie to different formats for playback with a variety of devices. MacTheRipper is intended to backup DVDs you have legally purchased for personal use. Any copyright-infringing activity you choose to perpetrate using this application is illegal, immoral, and beyond our control.

I happened upon a video at 5min.com that shows you how to use MAC The Ripper to rip DVD movies to your hard drive so you can turn around and burn them to DVD-Rs. So you don't have to search for it at 5Min.com, here it is:



Do you know of any other DVD rippers for MAC or Linux that work as well as RipIt4Me for Windows? Let us know in the comments. I really want to know.

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It's Official. You Just Prefer To Build It Yourself

I just closed the last poll which asked the question, "Who is your favorite computer manufacturer." Al lot of you answered this one. I guess this particular topic struck a cord.

Not surprising though, the results leaned more towards building computers yourself. Why is that? Is it because most of you are gamers? Maybe. Is it because most of you just don't like some of the proprietary bull crap you find on the major manufacturers. I suppose that could be true too. I think it is because if you build it yourself, you know exactly what it can do, oh, and you can over clock the shit out of it too!

Personally, I don't like building computers myself. I have done it, sure. In fact my main computer at home is one I build myself. I understand the whole Doctor Frankenstein feeling when you put it all together, and power it on for the first time and scream, "It's alive! It's alive!"

No, I am done with building my own computers. Too much of a hassle for me. I am not much of a computer gamer either, so the stock systems from HP or Dell work for me. I guess I am a minority though. At least that is according the the recent Bauer-Power poll. 64 people responded, and here is a pie chart breakdown of the results:



As you can see, 38% of you said you prefer to build your own computer. Dell came in a close second with 20% of the vote. Apple came in a tight 3rd place with 19%.

Don't forget to vote in my new poll on which asks what is your favorite PDA?

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The iRack

whether or not you support the war, this is pretty funny...

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