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How to Take a Screenshot on a Vibrant, MyTouch, Nexus, G1 or Other Android Phone

If you’ve been wondering how to take a screenshot on an Android phone, wonder no more! You can do it, and you don’t have to root your phone to do it! Here’s how to capture a screenshot on an Android phone.

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How to Create Custom Notifications, Alarms and Ringtones on the G1 Google Phone – It’s Easy!

Believe it or not, it’s extremely easy to create custom notifications, alarms, and ringtones on the T-Mobile G1 Google phone! And doing it this way will allow your own custom sound files to show up in the same list as the pre-installed sounds!

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Cell Phone Holder for Car Uses CD Slot to Hold iPhone and Smartphones

We got such a great response to our article on the iPhone holder for cars that uses the cassette deck, that we thought we’d write an article about a similar device that holds your phone using your CD slot in your car. We especially figured we should do that because we got a couple of questions asking whether there was a smartphone holder that uses your car’s CD player. There is.

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How to Watch TV on Your iPad, iPhone or iPod!

This is really cool! If you’ve ever wondered how to watch television on an iPad, iPhone or iPad, this is your answer! It’s a device that allows you to watch network tv – using a built-in tv antenna! – on your iPhone, iPad or iPod video! There are lots of reasons you may want to watch tv on your iPhone (or iPad or iPod). For example, lots of people no longer have cable or network television at home, but there may be those rare occasions when you would like to watch television for a specific reason – the presidential debates, the Super Bowl, etc.. So, if you would be able to watch tv direct to your iPad or other iOS device, this is how! It’s called the Escort Mobile TV device. Read on! (Includes list of locations where Dyle digital tv is available).

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How to Close, Shut Down, Stop Running, or Otherwise Completely Kill a Running App on an iPhone or iPad

While it’s often fine to leave all of the apps running on your iPhone or iPad, sometimes, for various reasons, you want to completely shut down an app , i.e. kill it, stop it from running, or close it.  It’s actually really easy to completely close an iPhone app (or an iPad app), but this is another one of those things that, while easy, is not obvious.  So here is a step-by-step tutorial (only 3 steps!) to completely shut down and stop an app from running.

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Apple Said to be Disabling Apple IDs of Jailbroken iPhones

“This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons”, the ominous error message reads. What does it mean? Well, it’s no secret that Apple hates it when people jailbreak their iPhones (of course if Apple would give them what they want, they wouldn’t feel compelled to have jailbroken iPhones – jailbreaking iPhones happens when iPhone owners can’t get at the things that they want, that they know the phone can do, but which Apple has crippled). Now people with jailbroken iPhones are starting to receive the “This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons” error message, and have confirmed that their Apple ID (which, among other things, gives you access to the iPhone app store) has been disabled. So, what it means is that Apple has started denying access to iPhones which have been jailbroken.

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What to Do if You’ve Found a Cell Phone

Do you know what you should do if you find a cell phone in the street, at the mall, in a store? If you’ve found a cellphone lying around (or, perhaps, in a taxi or on the bus), it may be that you found a lost cellphone that somebody dropped or that fell out of their pocket or purse, or it may be that you’ve found a stolen cellphone that the thief has now dispensed with. In any case, if you’re wondering “I found a cell phone, what should I do with it?”, here is what you should do if you find a cell phone.

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Tmobile G1 Android Data Network Goes Down

Countless thousands across the country are without service this Labor Day Weekend as the Tmobile 3G and Edge data network which services the G1 Android phone went down, and remains down as of the time of this writing.

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Track Your Lost or Stolen Cell Phone with PinTail!

A large number of people wind up here at the Internet Patrol site every week looking for ways to track their lost or stolen cell phone. Unfortunately, those phones are rarely recovered. Now, a new application for the Google phone changes all that!

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Zune Phone Said to Be Due Within Weeks

While a Microsoft Zune Phone has been rumoured for months, no less a reliable source than Barrons says that a Zune Phone will be out by the first week of January. The Zune Phone, rumoured to be the industry-whispered “Project Pink”, will be unveiled at CES, say industry insiders.

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A Review of the New Tmobile Sidekick 4, Actually Known as the T-Mobile LX – 3 Thumbs Up for This New Sidekick Cell Phone!

If you’ve been thinking of getting a new sidekick – waiting for the T mobile Sidekick 4 – wait no longer! The Tmobile Sidekick 4, actually known as the T-mobile Sidekick LX, was launched this week, and it was definitely worth waiting for! This Sidekick cell phone is a beauty! And with its amazing new screen – plus new features to take advantage of it such as screenshots and choice of font size – we say don’t bother waiting for the Sidekick LX’s little brother, the smaller Sidekick Slide.

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Microsoft Issues Wide-Sweeping Bans for Applications in Windows Mobile Market

As the Apple iPhone app store and T-Mobile G1 phone application market show signs of becoming more open, Microsoft has gone in the opposite direction, issuing a flat-out Mobile Market ban from their Mobile 2 Market applications market on several genre of applications, including alternate browsers or search clients. In otherwords, you and your Windows Mobile phone will remain captive and chained to only Microsoft applications.

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Yes, Virginia, You Really Can Control This Huge Outdoor Christmas Lights Display Over the Internet!

Some of you will remember that a few years ago, we featured the massive outside Christmas lights display created by Alek Komarnitsky that you could control over the Internet. It included Christmas lighted outdoor decorations, Christmas inflatables, Christmas yard decorations, and all other fashion of outside Christmas decorations and Christmas yard decor – and even a few not-so Christmas outdoor decorations, such as the Incredible Hulk. Then, it turned out that all of this Christmas yard art was a fake – that is, the outdoor Christmas decorations did exist, but it was a hoax that you could turn this outside Christmas lights display on and off with your computer from across the Internet. This time, however, it’s real!

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SFMTA Refund List: Last Names Starting with W, X, Y and Z

People and businesses owed a refund by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA) last names starting with W, X, Y and Z (Original SFMTA list here) W B JORDAN GEN BLDG 5A26249 $40.00 W BRA 4V76404 $15.00 W BRA 5T92954 $25.00 W BRADLEY EL 4X82549 $52.00 W BRADLEY EL…

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SFMTA Refund List: Last Names Starting with Sl through Sz and Letters T, U and V

People and businesses owed a refund by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA) last names starting with Sl and letters T, U and V (Original SFMTA list here) SLABACK STEPHANIE A 3WGK879 $37.00 SLACK JENNIFER G 3SAG183 $233.00 SLACK JESSICA LEE 3CJA938 $45.00 SLADE DONNA J 2TOX937 $30.00 SLADE…