Looking to download a couple of your favorite videos (or maybe games) onto your iPhone? We have just received word that developer davidraso has developed a simple new web interface, dubbed the uPhone. More details on this simple app are available in the full article.

Download: uPhone UI

As a collaborative effort on the part of the Google Calendar team and the mobile team, Google Calendar was retrofitted for iPhone use, since it can browse Google Calendar through the phone's second generation network. The Official Gmail Blog claimed that Google Calendar will sport the different calendars in their distinctive colors over your mobile phone.

This adds to Google's efforts to cater to many communities out there, no matter what the platform. You may recall that Google Reader Wii-fied itself for Internet surfers over the Nintendo Wii's Internet Channel, so this approach toward the Apple community would certainly be no surprise.

We'll have more developments on this as they come in. Keep your eyes glued to this space for updates.

A bit of bad news for Google Video users: the media you rented or bought from the web giant's online store will no longer be viewable after the site is shut down by the parent company.

Google said there will be no refunds for any of the transactions, but compensation will come in the form of credits in Google Checkout, the company's online paying service.

The decision to shut the site down came after top officials decided that the Google Video service has become irrelevant due to the success of YouTube, which it also owns and uses to sell videos.

The move was branded as a big mistake by analyst David Card of Jupiter. He also added that the shutdown and the no-refund policy are making consumers more wary of digital media purchases.

"We've seen a physical format-device combo go out of manufacture before: wax cylinders, 8-tracks," says Card. "But can you think of any consumer-purchased medium that actually becomes unusable while there are players that still work?"

Inquisitor series of search helpers for Safari">David Watanabe, you rule. Seriously. You've been developing the Inquisitor to the point that many tech savvy Safari users probably think it's already part of their system. Lucky for Safari folk, there's a new version out now.

The new version, Inquisitor 3.0, is currently on beta 1 stage. Now, if you don't know what it is, Inquisitor helps you search for whatever it is you're looking for on Safari. It'll predict what you're typing and suggest particular sites depending on what you're looking for. It has an auto-complete function for the words you might be searching, so you can skip some thought processes if you feel like it. Best of all is the ability to customize it by adding search engines to Safari.

Now, if you're wondering what's so great about it besides that, you also have to realize it's stylish, and looks good on a Mac interface. Of course, it probably won't work on a Firefox browser with a Mac interface, but that's beside the point. It's got the same functionality as previous versions of Inquisitor, but this time, it's free.

You can't go wrong with free, can you? If you're interested, don't hesitate to say hi to the developer. Let us know if you like the add-on as well, alright?

Lots of people are giving up on .Mac, not just fcodc from Mac Recon, and for the same list of reasons. Why pay the subscription fee when you can get equivalent or better services from Yahoo!, Google, YouTube, and other third-party providers for much less or even free? One quick browse through the Digg archives on anything .Mac related and you're greeted with an avalanche of customer complaints and shattered confidence. It's as though the apples of Apple's eye are its iPod and CPU businesses, and .Mac's the neglected child.

Well, one guy over at the unofficial apple weblog (TUAW) isn't about to give up on .Mac, no matter how disappointed he is. Not yet anyway. He aims to convince his readers to assert their rights as customers and flood Apple with a petition to improve .Mac's services and make it worth the fees that they pay for its use. He had posted a template for a viral petition that he asks dissatisfied .Mac users to copy and paste onto the .Mac feedback form at the Apple website.

He does have his skeptics. One comment noted a lack of confidence in online petitions themselves, saying that, in this case, a viral petition would feel more like a negative publicity campaign for .Mac, and Apple would simply dismiss it as customer whining. Another noted that the only way to grab the company's attention is to hit it where it hurts: the revenue from .Mac, because Apple will only start paying attention if a majority of its subscribers would suddenly pull out (or so the comment implied).

On the other hand, given all the news regarding Apple customer support and feedback lately, neglecting .Mac until it's too late may be par for the course with the company. It did take Cupertino quite some time to officially acknowledge a number of defects and issues with the MacBook and MacBook Pro as either factory defects or something covered by AppleCare, such as the MacStains, the whining keyboard, batteries, and sudden shutdowns. If a snowball of petitions doesn't get their attention, who knows what will?

We all know that most of us keep at least two different email accounts - one for work and one for personal use, then there's others who also keep emails for groups, community newsletters, website, for stalking, and so on and so forth. We also all know how tedious it can be to have to log in to each of these accounts separately. That was then. Now, say hello to the ability to access all your mail, all at once.

This is made possible by, first and foremost, having the WebMail extension installed in your system. This extension integrates website-based email accounts into Mozilla Thunderbird, and allows Thunderbird to download and to send emails using the website. The extension is known to be slick, as itÂ?s just a case of downloading the core package plus the package for the particular service youÂ?re using, installing them, restarting Thunderbird, and then setting up the account.

To get started, you will need to install WebMail first and at least one of its optional components. Once WebMail is up and running, the next thing to check for is if the the status of the enabled servers are "running". This can be viewed in the Options menu. This is also the menu that should display the list of supported domains.

From there, you can move to creating a POP account by going to the main menu and opting to create a new account. You may then set your name and email address in the Identity Page. Then, just enter the appropriate server information and the domain name, follow the instructions until you reach "Finish", and you're all set!

Support is currently available for Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail, Libero, Lycos, AOL and Mail.com accounts.

Much talk recently ensued in many online communities after Apple has linked to Japanese Video Artist and Musician, Takagi Masakatsu's site, and then shut down the his site because of the bandwidth consumption.

This has caused a lot of disappointed reactions as many have found Apple's move unethical and unintelligent. Above all though, there is a general air of agreement that it was Apple who linked to the site in the first place, which is even hosted on .mac, and yet Apple couldn't find the courtesy to host what they linked to and even shut it down.

Masakatsu's website (check it out here) mostly contains static image samples of his work and some audio clips.

Ever heard that phrase untapped resources? That's what you ought to find when trying to avoid too much interference when you're in the airport. For this task we shall enlist the help of a clever device called the iStumbler.

iStumbler is the leading wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X, providing plugins for finding AirPort networks, Bluetooth devices and Bonjour services with your Mac. Release 96 updates the Bluetooth plugin to support device inquiry under Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger), allowing you to monitor all discoverable bluetooth devices, and integrate the Growl framework for notifications.

As you can see, channel six is overrun with base stations on their default channel while there was an entire spectrum left entirely unused. What you can do is set your channel to that unused spectrum, say three and restart the base station and you can go from this...

...to this.

So take the road less travelled with iStumbler to maximize the potential of your AirPort.

Download: [iStumbler 96]

The team behind Macintalk conducted their 4th test of the four major browsers for the Mac OS X namely Safari, Firefox, Camino, and OmniWeb, and they have noticed several improvements on almost all the browsers. The browsers were judged based on RAM usage, loading speed, RSS support, and PDF viewing.

The editor's choice: Safari. Firefox is a great browser for Windows or Linux. On a Mac, you're better off with Safari, WebKit, and OmniWeb, which are not only more Mac-like, but also faster and more efficient. FireFox fans love it for the extensive support for extensions but the review team say it's a subjective decision. To help you decide, here are the test results summary:

Firefox

Pros:

• Cool feature: extensive support for plugins, themes, and add-ons
  
• Acceptable support for CSS and Web Standards compared to IE

Cons:

• ItÂ?s ported to OS X and not a native browser
  
• It uses Gecko, which performs horribly on Mac OS X
  
• Windows-style buttons and UI elements
  
• Can be slow at times

OmniWeb Beta

Pros:

• Uses latest WebKit framework
  
• Cool feature: Interesting sidebar tabs function
  
• You can set preferences for each web page
  
• Saves browsing sessions
  
• Shared bookmarks

Cons:

• Costs money Â? who wants to pay for a browser?

Safari/Safari WebKit

Pros:

• Cool feature: Built-in DOM inspector
  
• Nightly build available with latest WebCore

Cons:

• Nightly Build is sometimes unstable
  
• Plug-in architecture is crappy

Camino

Pros:

• Based on Cocoa Â? more Mac-like than FireFox
  
• Integration with Mac OS X Standards

Cons:

• It uses Gecko, which performs horribly on Mac OS X

Surely, happy days are coming to loyal Mac users who are into gaming. Aspyr Media recently announced that they are developing  a new game application which is tagged as 'The Gamerhood'. So what does it do? If it becomes fully-developed, this one will allow users to purchase and download games directly to their Macs using a standard internet connection. Features will include the ability to purchase as well as download games online, play games without physical media (CDs or DVDs), and the ability to check hardware compatibility against a game's minimum system requirements prior to purchasing the title.

For now, that is all that's mentioned about The Gamerhood and Aspyr Media promises to release more specific information on the Gamerhood's capabilities over the next few months, as well as a list of titles that will be immediately available upon the application's launch. The Gamerhood will be free for all Mac users, and is slated for Fall of 2006 launch.