“Geekmommy4’s Tech Talk” Getting a New Name and Moving!

I’m happy to announce that I’m now self-hosting my blog and have renamed it to “The Princess Geek”.  The site is going to be in a constant state of change for a few weeks while I try out different things to make it great!  Well, I might as well be honest…I’m a geek, so I’ll probably always be tinkering with it!  LOL

Please delete any feeds and add my new site if you’ve been following me.

Come check out the new site at The Princess Geek

Go Farther and Stay Longer with an External Battery Pack for your iPhone or iPod Touch

As much as I love my iPhone, I was shocked when I was away from any kind of power source for a day and realized that I would have to do nothing with my phone besides a little internet surfing, a bit of texting, and a few necessary calls.

Since external battery packs aren’t as widely advertised as cases, I didn’t realize for a long time that they were available.  When I started looking, I was impressed with the variety of them, ranging in price from $40 to $100.  Check out my eHow.com article for some External Battery Pack options for your iPhone or iPod Touch.

How to Extend iPhone or iPod Touch Battery Life with an External Battery Pack

How to Create a Genius Playlist on your iPhone or iPod Touch

If you want to pick a song and create a playlist containing songs similar to that favorite song, read this article on how to create a genius playlist right on your iPhone or iPod Touch!

How to Create a Genius Playlist on Your iPhone or iPod Touch

How to Browse and Create Twitter Twibes

Have you heard about these new Twitter Twibes?  I find them great in getting together users who want to Tweet about a common subject.  Here’s all you need to get started with Twitter Twibes!  (I mentioned the 1st one in an earlier post.)

• How to Browse Twitter Twibe Groups
• How to Create a Twitter Twibe Group

How to Install Applications on Your iPhone or iPod Touch

One of the greatest features of the iPhone is that you can add some incredible apps to your phone that will make your iPhone indispensible to you.  I’m amazed how many people that I meet who have only installed 1 or 2 apps and then forget how to do it.

Here are two articles that will walk you through the steps from either your computer or from your iPhone.  You will need to know your iTunes password!  The first one, I mentioned a few posts back, but thought it was worth mentioning along with the 2nd article on installing directly on your phone.

How to Install Applications on Your iPhone or iPod Touch through iTunes How to Find and Install Applications Directly on Your iPhone or iPod Touch

How to use Cydia for Jailbroken iPhones or iPods

This is a beginner’s guide to Cydia.  It’s a pretty easy application to use, but there are some not-so-obvious features, like deleting apps that you have installed through Cydia.  Check out my article if this is an are of interest for you!

How to Use Cydia for Jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch

A few new eHow articles – Twitter, Twibes, Scrabble, etc.!

Here are a few new articles for you.  Twitter and Facebook have caught much of my attention lately.  It’s amazing to see how fast a social networking site can go from a virtual unknown to the general public, to becoming verbs that will probably be in the Webster’s dictionary by the end of the year!  Facebook did it last year and Twitter is doing it this year!

How to View Twitter and Facebook Status Updates in TweetDeck

How to Browse Twitter Twibe Groups

How to Play Scrabble on Your iPhone with Your Facebook Friends

Please share any comments!  I’d love to hear what you think!

How to Compare and Choose Between Apple iPhone and Palm Pre Article

Here’s my newest article on How to Compare and Choose Between Apple iPhone and the Palm Pre!

Check it out and let me know if there are other features that you think are important.

New Article on eHow – How to Find the Best Twitter Application for the iPhone

The interest in Twitter has been skyrocketing in the last few months.   The concept of micro-blogging invites users to update whenever and wherever they are, which makes an iPhone application a natural fit.  Unfortunately, lots of developers have recognized that fact and have presented us with dozens of choices of iPhone Twitter clients.

I have been documenting the functionality each of the major Twitter apps for the iPhone and have found that not one of the available apps covers all of the features requested by users.  Twitterers are forced to either use several different apps or just settle for one that fits best.  I have written an article on eHow.com that helps the reader identify some of the functionality and which type of app that might work best.

How to Find the Best Twitter Application for the iPhone

I didn’t think it was the right format to recommend specific applications by name, however.  Maybe I’ll do that here, if there is any interest!  Let me know in the comments if you want me to name names!

Track the H1N1 Flu Outbreak on Maps

EDIT: Updated article at http://theprincessgeek.com/articles/146

Swine Flu Map

EDIT: Updated article at http://theprincessgeek.com/articles/146