All articles tagged , App Store, iPhone, iPod touch, Productivity, Utilities, Web Apps

PageOnce launched as a web site earlier this year with a single focus, to simplify your online activity by aggregating your accounts into a single, secure view. We gave it test drive and liked it, but they were lacking a mobile interface so we didn’t get to tell you about it here on Touchtp.com. Today, we can gladly tell you that PageOnce has a free, native app waiting for you in the App Store and this is one gem of a download that you won’t want to miss.

The PageOnce app brings account aggregation to the iPhone and iPod touch, and the productivity gains you’ll experience will be like nirvana. PageOnce gives you a single page with all of your online accounts for banking, credit cards, email, MobileMe, social networks, bill payments, movie rentals, airlines, and on, and on, and on. You’ll have access to almost every online account you own with just a single tap. The days of signing into each account separately have come to and end, and that is wonderful news to our weary, tapped-out fingers.
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We already told you about Instapaper, the magnificent bookmarking web app that you can use from your desktop browser or on your iPhone or iPod touch. As you browse the web and find content you don’t have time to read, but want to save it for reading later, you simply tap a bookmarklet to send it to your Instapaper account where it will be saved for easy access later. You can access all your saved items from any web browser making it easy to flag web pages from your desktop, then read them later when you’re on the go.
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If you do any social networking with your friends or colleagues online, then you know what a pain it is to check all the sites to monitor their activity. You have to go to each site, sign into your account, check the updates. This gets more and more tedious as you connect with more people using different social networks. You’ve got friends on YouTube, and some are on Facebook, your colleagues are on LinkedIn, he uses Digg, she uses Flickr, you get the idea. It’s getting to be a big distraction just to keep up, and your CPA (constant partial attention) is getting stretched to its limit.

Enter FriendFeed, a social media aggregator that combines activity from all of your social networks into a single stream. While FriendFeed does not currently have a mobile-friendly version of the service, there are other ways of using it on mobile Safari and we’ll tell you how after the jump.
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We gotta hand it to Justin Michael for creating a cut-and-paste code snippet that turns Backpack into a must-have app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Adding value to Backpack is not an easy thing to do because its creators, 37signals, have already thought of almost everything to make its collaboration and productivity tool very useful. However, they overlooked users who want to access Backpack from mobile Safari, and that’s where Justin’s iBackpack comes in. You simply paste a snippet of code into a Backpack divider to create a new layout that is optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch. Like Backpack, the code snippet is also free. And if you aren’t already familiar with the award-winning Backpack, go sign up for a free account and give it test drive on your desktop web browser. If you like it as much as we do, drop in the iBackpack tweak and you’re good to go on mobile Safari.
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Whoa, we didn’t see this one coming. Sphere, software that connects contextually relevant content to your content, has been acquired by AOL for a rumored $25 million. Sphere was originally a search engine for finding content on blogs but then morphed into an engine to discover contextually related content with clients like the Time, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and many others. AOL has taken this new technology and created a very nice search utility specifically tailored for the iPhone and iPod touch. The interface blends the iPhone’s mulit-touch surface with AJAX to deliver a user experience that allows the richness of the web to shine on mobile Safari. This new search tool has features you won’t find in Google or any of the major search engines. If you’re tired of Google or just want to check out a new way to find good stuff on the web using your iPhone, then check out this surprisingly great search utility from AOL. Who’da thunk? Learn more after the jump.
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We know, we know… the words “great” and “iPhone photography” really don’t belong in the same title, but this new, free utility from Snapture actually does help you take better pictures with your iPhone. Snapture contains several tweaks that improve the photo-taking experience on the iPhone. Some of the features are so obvious you have to wonder how Apple overlooked them to begin with. Snapture is a free download, but it does require a jailbroken iPhone. You can find it in the Installer.app under Utilities. Snapture is one of those “a taste of what’s to come” native apps that hint at some of the great iPhone applications that will be available in the Apple App Store this June. Read on to find out more about Snapture’s handy features for the iPhone camera.
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That measly 8GB iPhone drive fills up pretty quickly which means you have to constantly shuffle around the music and videos you have on your iPhone every time you sync. And it only gets worse as your media library continues to grow. We feel your pain and have a possible solution for you if you have a PC at home that is always connected to the net via Wi-fi or cable. MyCast from Orb automatically checks the bandwidth, screen size and resolution of your viewing device and optimizes the digital content for your device and connection speed. Orb turns your PC into a secure media streaming portal where you can access your entire library of music, photos, and videos from Safari on your iPhone or iPod touch. Orb will even stream tv and can also double as webcam home security system. It’s easy to set up and best of all, it’s free.
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Hi-dee-ho! After a brief hiatus, the Friday Roundup is back! This week, Touchtip readers have sent us some really great iPhone and iPod touch tips that we’d love to share with you. Don’t forget to share your own tip with us, or post them directly to our iPhone and iPod touch forums.

So what’s in store this week? Find out where to browse popular magazines for free. Learn how to stop iPhoto from opening up every time you sync your device. You’ll also discover some handy utilities for recording voice memos, and another that turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a remote touch pad for your Mac or PC. There’s also a few mods for your iPhone camera. What are you waiting for? Read on.
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