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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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There is no shortage of web video sites out there that are either trying to ride in the wake of YouTube’s success, or offer something that YouTube doesn’t have. Hulu is probably the best new web video site to be released lately featuring high quality video produced by the big television and movie studios instead of the user-generated type at YouTube. However, Hulu’s Flash video format doesn’t work on the iPhone, which is why we were delighted to discover Modern Feed yesterday. Modern Feed is a directory of web videos, all of which have either met or surpassed the quality criteria set by the staff of Modern Feed. The site’s human-powered filter ensures that all the videos are not only good quality, but also are hosted on responsive servers. Modern Feed doesn’t host the actual videos, they merely provide an easy way to find them. And part of the Modern Feed directory is devoted exclusively to web videos that are compatible with the iPhone and iPod touch.
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Last fall, we were very excited to tell you about the newly launched vTap which gives you YouTube and much more. vTap is a web video aggregator that makes it easy to access quality video on your iPhone or iPod touch. vTap actively collects video content from over 50,000 sites like YouTube, ESPN, and the New York Times. vTap automatically converts videos into an iPhone compatible format using QuickTime. In addition to a browse by topic feature, vTap offers several ways to find content and has added one new feature specifically designed for mobile users. vTap’s search feature has always been handy, auto suggesting content while you’re typing which reduces tapping on your touch screen. vTap’s newest “feed” feature continuously pumps new content into a topics category that you set up one time. This makes using vTap on the iPhone and iPod touch much more passive giving you more time to enjoy videos instead of looking for them.
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This is an idea that is difficult to describe because there’s nothing quite like it. However, shortly after you start begin exploring it you realize how practical and obvious it actually is and wonder why it hasn’t been done already. Imagine hosting your own audioblog, chatting with hundreds of listeners in real-time, then posting a recored version of your show on your blog and podcast directories, and doing it all from your iPhone while driving home from work! Okay, so maybe that’s a bad idea, the driving part, that is. But if you want to broadcast your own audio show, listen to, or participate in other shows all from the mobility of your iPhone, then this is for you. Welcome to TalkShoe, the conference calling, community podcasting thingy that’s totally cool and highly addictive. Read on and find out why we think the quirky TalkShoe site has the potential to rival YouTube for your online attention.
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Thanks to everyone sending us tips for iPhone and iPod touch. Please, keep ‘em coming! You can submit them on our Share a Tip form, or by posting them directly to our iPhone and iPod touch forums.

This week’s submitted-by-you iPhone tips include how-to downgrade from 1.1.3 so you can Jailbreak your device, a tip about restoring bricked iPhones, some advice about using the new web clipping feature along with instructions for web developers to create custom icons for those clippings, a hack to enable cut-and-paste, and many more!
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We can’t count the times we’ve been surfing the web on our iPhone or iPod touch to come across a web page containing a broken video. These are usually caused by an embedded video in the web page that is formated in Flash video (.flv) which is not currently supported by the Apple devices. Fortunately, there are a couple of solutions out there that can help remedy this and allow you to watch those videos after all.
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This new web-based video converting tool is pretty darn slick. Movavi will convert any video into a format you can view on your iPhone or iPod touch. This includes videos you find on YouTube, Revver, or any other video web site. Converting videos is done simply by telling Movavi the url of the video to convert, then selecting the video format you want the video converted to. When the conversion is complete, you’ll receive an email notice with a link to download your new video.
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The comedy video social network, Super Deluxe, is now super optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch. Sure, you could burn hours of quality pattern-interrupt time on YouTube for loads of belly laughs, but Super Deluxe offers a nice interruption to your…uh…YouTube pattern. Super Deluxe has a groovy, slick interface that serves up nothing but comedy videos for your enjoyment.
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