So you’ve just downloaded the most fantastic app in the history of humankind and you have to make it known that this is a five star app no doubt. Time to write a review! But how do you go about writing a review of an app for iTunes?

From the dawn of the iPod, it seems that it has been Apples mission to ensure that your device is tied to one computer and one computer only. To say that this is annoying and impractical is making a huge understatement. If you own a device, the machine that it’s being hooked up to and the content that you’re transferring, why are you limited to just linking that device and computer once? Well the point comes down to money. The record labels providing the music would love to see users confined to using and sharing music according to their rules, usually rules that involve them making the most money.

Too bad it’s so easy to just ignore all of that and do it anyway…….

There are a few third party apps out there that allow you to share contact information (your phone number, name, email etc.) with another iPhone user, like Bump. But what if you have to share contact info with someone who doesn’t have Bump installed, or *gasp* isn’t an iPhone user?

If you’re not familiar with it already, MobileMe is Apple’s answer to a remote syncing service for the iPhone, allowing you to keep contacts, calendar appointments, images and more constantly synchronized to your iPhone on the go. Probably the best reason to have MobileMe at the moment aside from syncing is FindmyiPhone, a service that allows you to track your lost or stolen iPhone, send the thieves love notes and alert the police as to their location with a handy Google map. Here’s how to do all of that cool stuff with FindmyiPhone..

The other day I was way from home and my house alarm went off. I couldn’t get home to check it and it was driving me nuts. Thankfully a family member was nearby and was able to go check on the house for me. But this got me thinking, if it happens again, what’s the easiest way for me to check on what’s going on without waiting for a neighbor or the alarm company to check it out. I had a couple of webcams, a computer and my iPhone and I thought surely I can figure out a way to use these to see whats going at home from wherever I am. Here’s what I came up with…

The scenario is an easy one to imagine, you leave for work, halfway there you realize that you forgot to start that huge download that you wanted when you got home. No way to do it now but turn around and go home, which is not an option. Well there is another way, in your bag you have a portable computer that has the capability to remotely display the desktop of your computer and allow you to control it as if you were sitting there with the mouse! Here’s how to set up your computer and iPhone for remote control…

The Facebook app for iPhone now has support for the Places feature, sa check-in service that allows you to tag where you are and where you’ve been. Unfortunately this seems like a better idea on paper than it does in practice. If other people tracking your every move sounds like something you’d rather not have happen, here’s how to disable the Facebook Places feature…

I hate voicemail, it’s a waste of time and I can’t remember the last time that I got a voicemail that was so urgent that someone couldn’t just text or email me. My phone is almost always with me, so usually me getting voicemail is a result of not getting to the answer button fast enough. If you have the same problem, here is how you change the amount of time that your iPhone will ring before going to voicemail.

The multifunction button located on your headphones does a lot more than answer your iPhone or hang it up. You can control the music that’s playing with a surprising amount of functions hidden in that little button. So much so that I hardly ever touch my iPhone to control my iPod any more.

The ability to download podcasts directly from the iTunes store on the iPhone was added a while back, but just like any other over-the-air download, you’re limited to downloading smaller podcasts that are under the 20MB file size cap. This means that hour-long or video podcasts are definitely out of the question unless you’re connected [...]