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One feature many people use in IE, Firefox, Chrome or Safari is to search for a keyword. Hit a certain key (like control and F) and type the word you are looking for and it searches the page for you. This can come in handy. Just the other day I was trying to solve error code when I found a forum post with over 200 replies. Reading through the entire thing was not practical. Thus, I entered the specific error code and found it appeared five times. I quickly was able to find the solution. What most people don’t realize is you can do the exact same thing on your iPhone, iPod or iPad. Just tap the Google search box at the top of the Safari browser and type the word for which you are searching. While it shows potential searches at the top the bottom shows how many instances of that keyword are on the current page. In the picture here I’m searching for the word reboot. At the bottom you can see that there is one match. Tap “Find reboot” and you are taken to the word and it is highlighted in yellow for you. Continue Reading…

Electronic Arts Inc., released a new game this week called Spy Mouse (currently $0.99). When I think of EA, Real Racing comes to mind or maybe Flight Control. This game is quite different, but being EA you know it’s well done. Spy Mouse is simple, get the cheese and back into your hole before a cat eats you. There are six worlds of 12 levels for a total of 72 boards. The game starts simple, but quickly gets harder. You move your secret agent mouse by swiping your finger. Once a cat spots you must quickly find a hole as the cats move much faster. Luckily, you can sneak behind them without being seen. There are numerous objects that can help in your quest for cheese like a toy mouse that you can pickup to disable mouse traps. There are hot peppers to make you run faster or a chair or teacup to hide under. There is a TV that when turned on distracts the cats. You can even use a cat called Kiska to help you through the harder levels. The cat springs a trap on you in the last board of each level. However, these aren’t too difficult and you should quickly make your way through the first 20 to 30 boards. This app is currently the Top Paid app in the App Store and for good reason. It’s kind of addicting. Easy enough for kids yet can still hold the interest of most adults.

iFile, BigBoss $4.00, is one of the two or three most popular Cydia apps and for many people the main reason to jailbreak. iFile gives you complete access to your iPhone, iPod or iPad file system. It’s basically like having windows explorer for you iDevice’s directories. This has tons of uses one of which is making it easy to manage and view your video files. With iFile you can watch not just mp4 but avi or mkv files in seconds. iFile can even unrar your movie files for you! Couple iFile with Downloads Lite and a free video player like OPlayer and you should have no troubles download and watching movies from almost anywhere. I don’t. So the next time I get asked (which will probably be today) how to watch a video file that won’t play I will just refer you to this post. Watch the video and for those that are not jailbroken and thus can’t get iFile . . . . WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?????