Section: Software + Apps , Miscellaneous , Third-Party , iPod + iTunes , iPod touch , iPhone , iPhone , iPhone SDK & Apps , Mac + Computers , Software Macintosh and iPhone/iPod updates and announcements for December 9, 2009: Macintosh Wondershare has released an update to Free YouTube Downloader for Mac with a brand new cocoa-based user interface and enhanced performance. Got a leaked YouTube home video of Taylor Swift in a bikini? Or want to playback the latest viral video “Pink Glove Dance” on YouTube? Downloading and collect them with Free YouTube Downloader. CoreMelt has announced the Show Us Your Pixels Competition . Entries will be accepted from 7th December 2009 until February 7th 2010. The grand prize is a Sumatran Adventure Trek with Rainforest Rescue to help support their rainforest salvation projects. With sponsors like AJA, Black Magic Design, Crumpler, Art Beats and many more, this is a competition not to be missed. Competition categories include best existing work, best student work and best rainforest themed work. FileMaker has announced new dates and a new headquarters hotel with a lower room rate for its 2010 Developer Conference . The 15th annual FileMaker Developer Conference will be Aug. 15-18, 2010, at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, San Diego, which offers a limited number of rooms for DevCon attendees at $149 per night. DevCon attendees are strongly urged to make reservations at the Sheraton (1-877-734-2726) before low-priced rooms sell out

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Every day is like Christmas when you own an iPhone or iPod touch; they’re the coolest handheld computers on the block. But you can bring even more joy to your favorite iPhone user with one of these rad gifts. With a new headset, an external battery, a slick-looking dock, a fly speaker, and a new case, your giftee will have everything they ever wanted — OK, except never-fail 3G reception from AT&T. Now that would be a holiday miracle. Dexim P-Flip Foldable Power Dock We’re used to an iPhone dock being something that sits on your desk and keeps your iPhone charged and connected to your Mac for syncing. Dexim’s P-Flip Foldable Power Dock does that, but it also has a built-in rechargeable 2000mAh backup battery, so you can take the whole dock with you — it folds up nicely, too — and use it either way. It’s even got an on/off switch in case you only want to use the dock and not draw power from the backup battery at the moment. Another nice touch: It can prop your iPhone up in portrait or landscape mode. Retails for $54.95.   Maximo iP-HS5 Maximo’s latest set of iPhone-friendly earbuds have a lot of fancy features that make them a great gift. The inline mic lets you make clear calls, and the cable also has a button to answer/hang up and switch tracks. The 9mm neodymium drivers deliver respectable sound, and the fabric-covered cables don’t tangle as easily as plastic-coated ones. Maximo even includes a soft, zippered carrying case, 4 sizes of eartips, 2.5mm plug adapters, and a 2-foot extension cable. Retails for $79.99.

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10 Perfect Gifts for iPhone Users

iPetals is a design concept that makes the ubiquitous iPhone charger mmm well more interesting. The prototype takes design inspiration from flower petals and moonlights both as a solar charger and an iPhone stand as the device has been hinged by designer Mac Funamizu. So when the petals are open, the device charges the iPhone and when you close them up, it transforms into a iPhone Dock! Neat isn’t it? Too bad its just a concept.

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This print and fold iPhone stand looks like something from Muji: chic, simple and functional. It’s the handiwork of French industrial designer Julien Madérou, who kindly provided a downloadable template. If you’ve got dexterous hands (or just the patience to watch the instructional video) and some heavy paper (270 gsm or 100 lb. cover), you can do

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Lovely DIY iPhone stand from Geeky Gadgets reader Frederick Weller. I’d gladly put on on my bedside table if I weren’t too lazy to make my own.

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Back to Basics iPhone Dock

Section: Software + Apps , Miscellaneous , iPhone , iPhone , iPhone SDK & Apps , Mac + Computers , Peripherals , Reviews Provides: Digital picture display Developer: IPEVO Minimum Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5+, 802.11 b/g network, or images on SD/USB, or a USB connection Price: $149.99 Availability: Now IPEVO’s Kaleido picture frame is surely a step ahead of the rest as far as digital picture frames go. Sure, it displays your pictures, but what digital picture frame doesn’t? It has to do more than that to stand out, and you guessed it, it does. What’s so unique about the Kaleido R7 is that it can be filled with images over your home’s wireless network. It can even get them on its own from the Internet without you lifting a finger. The Kaleido R7 comes with all the standard stuff.  You have the power cable, the remote, and the frame itself.  Once you’ve unboxed this little guy, you’ll notice just how well made it really is.  It feels quite sturdy to the touch; you won’t be thinking you just purchased some cheap plastic display.  It’s halfway to a true Apple product in that it’s almost free of physical buttons.  Nearly all of the controls on the device itself are touch sensitive buttons, but most of the controlling happens from the remote; it’s just easier.  The display itself is quite crisp.  It doesn’t suffer from what I like to call large pixel syndrome.  Some, mainly cheaper, digital picture frames suffer from absurdly large pixels as a result of super low resolutions.  The Kaleido R7 has a 7 inch display with a resolution of 800 by 480; plenty for great image quality. One of the coolest features of the frame is how it swivels from landscape to portrait orientation.  You’ll likely just want to keep it in the orientation of the majority of your images, which may or may not change from one set of pictures to the next.  The option is great to have, but I must admit that I never deviate from landscape since I’m in love with the widescreen format in general and don’t mind the black bars that sometimes happen from my poor choice in picture layouts in the past. So a wireless picture frame…it’s probably about as easy to set up as a solid colored jigsaw puzzle right?  Set up is actually quite easy, and that’s something I wasn’t quite expecting.  All you have to do is plug in the picture frame, type in your network details (name and password) and install the app onto your Mac.  The app will request that you pair the frame with it, so do that as well.  That’s pretty much it.  Now you have the freedom to select pictures from your computer and have them loaded, wirelessly, to the frame’s 512MB of internal memory.  Of course, it does all the standard stuff as well, like read pictures from an SD card or USB drive, but you’d have to expect that.  Pictures may also be loaded by connecting the frame to your Mac with a USB cable, but why would you want wires when you can use your network?  Heck, the darn thing can be on a different floor in your house. It’s the ultimate in convenience. It’s alright, you can take a while. I realize it’s awesome. Back? Okay. Now how are you going to use that wireless connection more

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Josh Darrah's wooden case This is the latest in a series of keen, green-leaning Apple accessories, like the iPhone stands made of wood or the steampunk-esque iPod case . Josh Darrah, an Australian graphic designer, crafted this iPod Mini case entirely in wood — with a nifty matching charger dock. Darrah told Stuff he spent about four weekends to craft the case out of just $12 USD in materials — Australian red cedar for the main shell and Camphor Laurel for the click wheel and base. He used screws instead of glue, making it a little greener (he did employ some double sided tape to secure the clickwheel). (More pics after the jump). His inspiration? “I was given a new iPod Mini for Christmas and I just couldn’t leave my trusty old Mini to sit unused somewhere,” he commented on Flickr. “So I decided to finally try a wooden shell mod on him that I had wanted to do for a long time.” The final product with matching wood dock Check out his making-of flickr stream and let the wood times roll… Thanks to CoM reader Mark Reinhoudt This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp .

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The fellows at Geeky Gadgets like to find new and creative ways to dock your iPhone to your computer (past triumphs include the Pencil iPhone Stand and the Cardboard iPhone Dock ).  Now, they’ve discovered a way to recycle all those old CD’s/DVD’s you have lying around and give your iPhone a place to recharge in the process.  Ooh, shiny!   Go here for the step-by-step instructions .

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Sittin’ On A Dock Of CD’s

Always on the lookout for cheap, do-it-yourself iPhone crafts, this combo stand/charger dock from a stack of old CDs is one more way to prop up your device without depleting your wallet. Jules made it from CDs (you’ll need about 15 total), he notes that you can use DVDs, too and that the dock will work for iPods as well. The iPhone stands tall over the shiny stack of CDs while plugged into the charging cord. The CD stand is bit more challenging to make than the rubber band and pencil version we wrote about awhile back — you’ll need a small rotary tool to cut the CDs so you can anchor the charging cord properly — but a nice way to do something with those old CDs. Full how-to at Geeky Gadgets This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp .

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iPhone Stand from Old CDs

Section: Software + Apps , Miscellaneous , Third-Party , iPod + iTunes , iPod touch , iPhone , iPhone , iPhone SDK & Apps , Mac + Computers , Software Macintosh and iPhone/iPod updates and announcements for April 8, 2009: Macintosh RemObjects Software, LLC has introduced RemObjects SDK for OS X, their new framework for Mac and iPhone developers. RemObjects SDK makes it easy for developers to create networked applications that communicate with each other. As a fully native OS X framework, RemObjects SDK was designed from the ground up to fit in with the tools that Mac and iPhone developers use, such as Xcode, Cocoa and Objective-C. ActyMac today announced DutyWatch 10 , their Employee Monitoring Software for Mac OS X. DutyWatch record and log everything your employees do, from recording keystrokes typed and website visits, to chats, employee emails and screenshots. DutyWatch is completely invisible to your employees. It runs silently and unobtrusively while logging everything that happens on their computers. Macvide is proud to announce iPod Converter 2.4 , their video to iPod mp4 conversion utility for Mac OS X. Developed specifically for Mac users, iPod Converter allows conversion of video files to mp4 iPod video. All of the most popular formats are supported, and helps bridge the gap between many video standards. iPod Converter offers an easy-to-use interface that guides the user through the conversion process. Version 2.4 sports a new style Rangebar, as well as a visible selected range time. Billeo, Inc. has announced availability of Billeo for the Macintosh.

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