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You have probably seen sneak peek of the new iPhone 3GS demo from Apple’s Guided Tour.

A YouTube video of the new iPhone 3GS has been found in the wild. The speaker demoing the iPhone 3GS is speaking Portuguese or Greek, I am not sure.

But, this video is great to just watch the various new features of the iPhone 3GS in action.

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Animoto is out to put an end to boring slideshows.

Animoto is a web application that turns your pictures into beautiful music videos. You can read our full Animoto review here. And it’s now available on iPhone.

Animoto iPhone app lets you select 8-16 photos from your picture library, select a music for the background and it creates a slideshow/video from your pics on the fly. You can watch it on your iPhone or email it to friends.

Here is one I quickly did from a few screenshots I had in my iPhone.

If you can’t already feel the excitement with the possibilities this app brings for you, let me help you visualize it. Lets say you are at a birthday party and you are snapping pics with your iPhone. You don’t have to wait to get home to create slideshows. Instead, you can create one while you are at the party and show/send it to everyone.

You can download the application here!

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Today was the MacWorld 2009 Keynote day.

Phil Schiller handled the Keynote today as opposed to Steve Jobs who is going through a patch of bad health.

iTunes received a fair bit of attention today at the Keynote. But, not in terms of technology innovation like the announcement of the Genius feature last time.

iTunes music store is going completely DRM Free!

Here are a few more iTunes stats thrown around in the Keynote:

• iTunes has sold 6 billion songs
• iTunes holds over 10 million different tracks
• There are now over 75 million accounts on iTunes with credit cards
• Today, 8 million songs are DRM free and all 10 million will be by the end of March

You can now buy DRM free music from iTunes. You now get a ‘Create MP3 version’ when you right click on the song.

iTunes Plus

You can also get DRM Free upgrades to your existing iTunes collection through a iTunes Plus Apple Program that features songs with high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding.

Upgrading individual songs to DRM Free iTunes Plus tracks will set you back about 30 cents a song, 60 cents for a music video and $3 for most albums.

Also, iTunes Plus has now made it so that you can download songs from both WiFi or cellular network.

Other than this and the announcement of a 17″ Macbook Pro, there wasn’t much news on iPhone 3G or iPod Touch. So we were like meh!

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We covered OrbLive - Watch Live TV in iPhone over 3G recently. As a recap, OrbLive is an iPhone App that lets you watch live TV in your iPhone or Touch.

You need to have Orb software installed in your PC and your PC should have a TV tuner card to receive TV programs. Using that setup, you can stream live TV to you beloved device.

There was some specultaion if OrbLive 2.0 would make it past Apple’s checkpoint to AppStore but we were just notifed by Orb Networks that their App has made it to the AppStore.

You can get OrbLive’s Free version or the paid version for $9.99. The paid version will play any media from your PC - music/videos, photos, webcams, even live TV. The free version limits you to 3 randomly chosen titles of each type instead of giving control to choose.

The possibilities are endless being able to stream stuff to your iPhone or iPod Touch. Check it out for yourself and see how creative you get with it. 

Between don’t forget to get your digital tv converters for your TV as it’s all becoming digital soon.

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Orb Networks makes software for streaming media from our home computers to other devices including cellphones, Xbox, Wii, PS3, etc as well as other computers.

I used to use Orb to share some big videos that I didn’t want to wait hours uploading with a family member across the world and just stream it with Orb.

They had previously released a iPhone App - OrbLive for iPhone. It used to work only on WiFi/EDGE. Now, OrbLive for iPhone has been updated to a new version that allows live TV streams over WiFi as well as AT&T’s EDGE & 3G networks.

Well watching TV streams with Orb isn’t really straightforward but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist either to do it.

How to use Orb?

• Install Orb software in your XP or Vista PC
• If your PC has a TV tuner card, you can stream live TV
• Get into Safari at mycast.orb.com to see your live stream

OrbLive for iPhone

• iPhone App is available as a free and paid app ($9.99)
• Free version just streams random files
• Streams media over 3G + WiFi & EDGE
• Paid version allows more control over what you watch

Download OrbLive

Will Apple Ban OrbLive?

Apple has in the past banned apps that stream live video from the AppStore. Qik is a great example that is so popular with jailbreak 2.1 iPhones but that isn’t still available in AppStore.

Even though OrbLive is accepted by Apple and available in AppStore I am going to wait to see if it was a mistake and let Apple pull it out.

But, with AT&T buying up a WiFi hotspot provider and boosting their current free WiFi offering to their iPhone & Blackberry customers, maybe it is time they feel ok with streaming live video on their 3G network. It is also about time to get the ability to record video on iPhone natively.

I guess we will find it out shortly, won’t we?

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I have said this before and will say it again. Buy.com’s is the only Newsletter that I actually open and scan for good deals. And I found another good one today that I wanted to share with you.

Buy.com has this Av Lab iPod/iPhone Docking Station for $18.99 + Free Shipping. That’s a savings of $16 from the original $34.99 price tag.

The docking station offers easy access to a USB port for charging and syncing your iPod or iPhone. You can even connect it to a TV or speakers. Plus you get a remote to control it from across the remote.

Some of the featues are:

• 3-in-1 charger, data transfer, audio/video output display
• The remote control has play/pause, volume control, forward/back buttons for easy control.
• Display photos/videos on TV from iPod/iPhone
• Connect composite AV cable or S-video with video output

Amazon.com also has a similar one - iPremierTrek iPhone Dock. Click over to see the price and reviews.

So, if you are looking for a docking station for your iPhone or iPod Touch, one of these could be the one you are looking for.

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One of the major gripes about iPhone is the lack of video recording capabilities. But, that hasn’t stopped some brave souls from making that possible.

To get this cool functionality in your iPhone, you’d have to jailbreak your iPhone.

1. You can use one of our jailbreaking guides to jailbreak your iPhone

1. How to Jailbreak iPhone 2.1 Firmware with QuickPwn
2. How to jailbreak iPhone using Quickpwn GUI

2. Get a free jailbreak app like Cycorder from Cydia that lets you record videos with your iPhone camera.

3. Use jailbreak app like Qik to live stream your video so your friends or family can watch it on the web. if you are wondering what that is, even Ashton Kutcher is Qikking.

As you can see I was in the basement with no signal but was Qikking with wi-fi.

If you are wary of jailbreaking, it hasn’t ever been easier. Just check out the first guide which is the most recent one. It took me less than 20 minutes to jailbreak it. Also, if you are not so sure about jailbreaking here’s the lowdown.

It has opened up so many more possibilities like adding custom themes, Cydia apps that we can’t find in AppStore because Apple thinks it’s not good enough for us.

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PhoneFlix is a free iPhone app that lets you view and manage your Netflix queue right from your iPhone or iPod Touch. Although PhoneFlix isn’t affiliated to Netflix in any way, it lets you login to your Netflix account and manage your queue. Plus, you can see your recent activity, recommendations and reviews as well.

You also get to browse through Netflix’s catalog of over 100,000 movies, documentaries and TV shows. I liked the fact that I could browse by movie categories, TV shows, Top 100 movies and pretty much all the top menu items in the Netflix website from my iPhone.

It looks like some folks have trouble logging into their Netflix account via PhoneFlix, but they are working to resolve it. Let us know it worked for you.

Just a quick note though, if after putting in your username and password, if it seems like you are still on the same screen, you probably typed in username or password wrong. It doesn’t give you an error.

Download PhoneFlix

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If you haven’t been to the store to get one today but wonder what this thing of beauty looks like unboxed, wait no more here is a video for you. I was amazed at the size of the box and how neatly all the components were packed!

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Apple’s iPhone uses the H.264 file format. And it is widely known that Apple added a YouTube player to the iPhone recently. But, how about other videos from sites like Metacafe, MySpace, etc.

Clippz is a service that ofers optimized H.264 format videos for us video junkies. We’ll be watching out for more developments on this front and without a doubt more services offering this service in the near future.

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