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iRip Saved My Life
Feb 23rd
Have you ever had a computer break and lost all your iTunes? The other day, this happened to me. My computer would not turn on. After tinkering with it for a few minutes, trying to turn it on, nothing happened. When I bought a new computer, I suddenly realized that something was missing. My iTunes. Probably some of the most valuable data on my computer. Gone. Luckily, I had all my iTunes music on my iPhone. After doing a little searching, I ran across an application called iRip by The Little App Factory. I read about it a little more, downloaded it, then did a little happy dance around my bedroom.
What iRip does, is it lets you transfer music from your iPhone or iPod Touch to your Mac or PC. This is exactly what I was looking for! iRip is simple, reasonably priced and has a great user interface. It does exaztly what it says it does, takes music from your iPhone/iPod and moves it to your iTunes. It is cross platform, so it runs on windows and OS X.
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How to unmask A shortened URL
Dec 31st
Have you ever ran across a shortened URL on Twitter or any other social networking site and wanted to see what website it would lead you too if you clicked it? Realurl.org is a website that simply lets you take a short URL and see what website it would take you to if you clicked it. It is useful if you do not trust the person that is giving you a shortened link and want to see where the link is going to take you BEFORE you click it.
How to: see what websites used to look like
Oct 6th
Do you want to know what just about any website looked like last year? Well there’s a website that will show you! This website lets you enter in a URL and view archives of that website. So for example you could enter Apple.com and it will show you a list of dates and when you click one it will show you what that website looked like on that day. It does not stop there. You can even click around on the website just as it looked like on that day.
I think this pretty cool and I spent about an hour reading about Apple’s old products on their own website. Here is a link to the website: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
What do you think?
