App to locate your friends with GPS

I'm a big fan of the iPhone. I'm also a big fan of the web. So, naturally, I'm excited that today we're finally releasing Google Latitude for iPhone and iPod touch as a web application running in Safari. Our Latitude web app provides all the core functionality you might expect: you can see the location of your friends on a map and modify your privacy settings so that you control how your location is shared and with whom. In fact, if my friends and colleagues back in London haven't yet noticed my absence, they'll see in Latitude that I'm currently vacationing on the beach in Australia. Hi guys, remember me!? You'll also find basic Search and Directions functionality to help you get around the world. And just like our Google Maps for mobile client apps (and more recently on desktop Google Maps), you can press the "blue dot" to be taken to your approximate current location on the map with My Location, thanks to Safari now supporting the W3C Geolocation API. To try Google Latitude, type google.com/latitude into your iPhone's browser. And if you miss the experience of launching the app directly from your home screen, you can add a bookmark to the home screen by opening Latitude in Safari and tapping the + icon > Add to Home Screen > Add. We worked closely with Apple to bring Latitude to the iPhone in a way Apple thought would be best for iPhone users. After we developed a Latitude application for the iPhone, Apple requested we release Latitude as a web application in order to avoid confusion with Maps on the iPhone, which uses Google to serve maps tiles. Google, like Apple, continues to push for improvements in web browser functionality. Now that iPhone 3.0 allows Safari to access location, building the Latitude web app was a natural next step. In the future, we will continue to work closely with Apple to deliver useful applications -- some of which will be native apps on the iPhone, such as Earth and YouTube, and some of which will be web apps, like Gmail and Latitude. Unfortunately, since there is no mechanism for applications to run in the background on iPhone (which applies to browser-based web apps as well), we're not able to provide continuous background location updates in the same way that we can for Latitude users on Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile. Nevertheless, your location is updated every time you fire up the app and then continuously updated while the app is running in the foreground. And, of course, you can check in on where your friends are, so we think there's plenty of fun to be had with Latitude. Learn more about updating and sharing your location from your iPhone. The Google Latitude web app currently supports iPhone/iPod Touch OS 3.0 or above. For now, it's available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and we hope to bring it to more countries soon.

Transfer contacts from Android (droid) to iPhone

The following is how to transfer your contacts (and calendar) from your android device to your new iPhone 4. Your contacts should already be in your Google account since you've been using your Android device. Getting Started 1. Open the Settings application on your device's home screen. 2. Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars. 3. Tap Add Account.... 4. Select Microsoft Exchange. OS 4.0+ now allows multiple Exchange accounts. However, if you're on a device that doesn't let you add a second account, you could also use CalDAV to sync Google Calendar andIMAP to sync Gmail. Enter Account Info 5. In the Email field, enter your full Google Account email address. If you use an @googlemail.com address, you may see an "Unable to verify certificate" warning when you proceed to the next step. 6. Leave the Domain field blank. 7. Enter your full Google Account email address as the Username. 8. Enter your Google Account password as the Password. 9. Tap Next at the top of your screen. 9a. Choose Cancel if the Unable to Verify Certificate dialog appears. 10. When the new Server field appears, enter m.google.com. 11. Press Next at the top of your screen again. 12. Select the Google services (Mail, Calendar, and Contacts) you want to sync. 13. Unless you want to delete all the existing Contacts and Calendars on your phone, select the Keep on my iPhone option when prompted. This will also allow you to keep syncing with your computer via iTunes. If you want to sync only the My Contacts group, you must choose to Delete Existing Contacts during the Google Sync install when prompted. If you choose to keep existing contacts, it will sync the contents of the "All Contacts" group instead. If there are no contacts on your phone, the latter will happen -- the contents of your All Contacts group will be synced. You've set up Google Sync! Synchronization will begin automatically if you have Push enabled on your device. You can also open the Mail, Calendar or Contacts app and wait a few seconds to start a sync

How To Make a Free iPhone Ringtone using iTunes and Free Software

Shortly after the release of iTunes 7.4 -- which came out Wednesday, September 5, the day ringtones were announced -- users noticed that the main difference between ringtones and regular audio files was their file extensions. Regular AAC files have the file extension .m4a, while ringtones use the file extension .m4r. 1. Locate your "Ringtones" folder. If you have iTunes 7.4 installed, there should be a folder in your iTunes music library labeled "Ringtones." ITunes 7.4 will automatically create a new folder in your music library for storing ringtones the first time you open a .m4r file, provided you have the "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized" option checked. 2. Edit the song down to a suitable size and length. The size of an allowed ringtone on the iPhone tops out at around 3 megabytes. For length, shoot for 20 to 30 seconds. 3. For Mac users, there are several ways to whittle down your tracks. You could use Apple's Quicktime Pro or Garageband if you have them. You can also edit MP3s in the free Audion 3 or the shareware app MP3 TrimmerAudacity.($11). Windows users can edit audio files with the free and cross-platform 4. Pick the 20 to 30 seconds you want to use as your ringtone and save the file as an MP3.Add the shortened file to your iTunes library. 5. Right-click on the clip in iTunes and choose "Convert to AAC." The clip will need to be an AAC file in order to be used as a ringtone. 6. Change the file extension to .m4r and move the AAC to the "ringtones" folder in your music library. Since both Windows and Mac OS X like to hide file extensions, the renaming part can be tricky. Make sure you aren't just appending a file extension to the hidden one. On a Mac, choose "Get Info" in the Finder and make sure "Hide extension" is unchecked. In Windows, make sure the "Hide extensions for known file types" option in Windows Explorer is turned off. 7. Mac owners can use the free iRing Automator application to run this process in a single click. When you sync your iPhone, you should see the new ringtones displayed in your phone's sound settings. For iTunes 7.4.1 Apple quickly disabled this ultra-simple free ringtone method with the release of iTunes 7.4.1. If you've already upgraded to iTunes 7.4.1, try this simple trick. Head back into the iTunes music folder and change the extension of your .m4r ringtones back to .m4a. Convoluted, yes, but it does work. For now. How To Make a Free iPhone Ringtone using iPhone Unlocking Software If you would rather not use iTunes to manage your iPhone's ringtones, you can use iPhone unlocking software and a bit of command line sauce. Using Jailbreak 1. Unlock your iPhone. 2. Install the SSH application, which lets you interact with the iPhone's file system just as you would any other remote device. You'll be able to install ringtones and much much more Using http://ifoneunlock.blogspot.com.au/