January 8th, 2010 by admin

What do tile markers, “green” whiteout and iPhones have in common? Well, that’s what we wondered when we saw this new TVHat on display at the SKM Industries Inc stand at the 2010 CES show currenlty running in Los Vagas.

The TVHAT was launched at the CES by SKM Industries Inc (note the T-shirt in the pic - we’ll come back to it!)

Now SKM are serious developers of  chemical products useful to businesses - like the previously mentioned “green” whiteout (correction fluid). So we were surprised to see them demo-ing a product so out-of-the-hat as it were, compared to their normal product lines!

As with most of the new products launched at CES, there is no mention of the TVHat on the SKM website  as yet. But the concept is obvious from the pic - its a portable mini-movie room!

Looks pretty geeky, as well - so not sure this product is gonna add much to the company’s bottom line. After all, ya can’t even use celebs or beautiful women to promote it!!

Remember the t-shirt we mentioned? Take a close look at the logo on the guy sporting the TVHat.

Notice that part of the url is  tvhat.com? And anyway that is the brand name - so its likely that at least some people are going to search for tvhat.com. And boy are they going to be surprised.

Not sure how much market research went into the name but currently there is an out-of-date anti-America, Arab site sitting at that url!! At first glance it presents itself as a music site. But the latest “music videos” are clearly political and religous figures from the Arab world. And when the Google translator is used, we find phrases like:

The promotion of hostility between America and Islam

Is it just us, or is this super weird?

What do ya’ll think?

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December 14th, 2009 by admin

Continuing the celebration of our millionth visitor, in this post we provide links to our three best  free iPhone Movie, TV and Video downloads posts. Now the iTunes store is great - but rental movie selection is poor there and it is still too expensive to purchase movies just for our iPhones.Ever on the lookout for ways to get free movies, we have found some “outside the box” strategies for get legal free or reduced price movies and TV shows to watch on our iPhones.

1) Best post - Unlimited  free Movies to watch on our iPhones.

2) Free iPhone Movies and TV shows for two weeks. Like National Geographic, TLC, the Discovery Channel etc to watch?  This offer gives us free access to Online TV as well as movies - all for free! Great for the Christmas holidays (And if you are giving an iPhone, you can include this in the gift!!)

3) Free iPhone Movies for the connoisseur of movies (how many are free depends on where you live in the world!)

There is another way to get free iPhone movies that we have not yet done a post about. That post is in the works and will be uploaded later this week - in time for Christmas!

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November 14th, 2009 by admin

Vuze has a great new feature called Devices which converts your downloads to play on Iphones. According to Vuse, they have made the convert-system smart so that we don’t have to be. Just the way we like it!

The simple two-step process is outlined on Vuse and shown below.

Try it out - its free! You can download Vuze 4.3 here and/or get the Vuze Toolbar here.

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November 3rd, 2009 by admin

The iPhonegizmo team have struck gold! We have found a great new source of free movies to watch on our iPhones. Now, before we send you off to this great site, we wanna remind you how to GET the free movies to your iPhone.We have already done a post that shows how to watch free iPhone movies. So just check that out again.

As for the free movies - let us introduce you to Auteurs. The site specializes in movies from around the globe that are:

creative, visionary …

In other words, artsy fartsy films to the common man/woman.  The site has a wide range of free movies on offer from around the globe. Fir example, there are selections from sixty years of Cannes Film Festival:

As well as free films from the Criterion Festival,  plus films restored with the aid of the World Cinema Foundation, more recent film treasures from the Merchant Ivory Collection, and a host of other free movies you will find as you browse the site.

BTW - Depending on what country you live in, not all of the free movies will be available to watch (but here a three freebies to start with) . iPhonegizmo has approached Auteurs to find out more about the free films available for people in North America. We will keep you posted.

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July 23rd, 2009 by admin

Hot offer.  We recently did a post showing  you how to go about getting free iPhone movies. All it takes is two super easy to use bits of software and three clicks of the mouse, and you can watch any DVD on your iPhone (friends got some DVDs you wanna watch?) One of the bits of software is free and does its thing in the background - so no need to think about it again. And the other is super cheap and so easy that it takes just three clicks to get the DVD movie into iTunes ready to sync to our iPhones!

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Well, as cheap as we reckon it was, they have just given iPhonegizmo readers an exclusive offer.

For our readers alone,  TransferMyVideo can now be got for 15% off discount!!

Can’t do batter than that folks! Thanks Avanquest, if I had not already bought TransferMyVideo, I would be in like a shot!

Use the “share” button below to share your good fortune with your friends so they can use the 15% discount link as well!

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July 9th, 2009 by admin

We recently did a post that showed how to get movies onto an iPhone for free. We used a video file (a recent episode of NCIS) we already had on our PC and used software - that can be downloaded free - to convert it to an iPhone compatible format. The software then auto transferred the converted file from our PC to iTunes (for later viewing on our iPhone)

At the time we promised to do a later post explaining how to get movie/video files onto our PC in the first place! The problem with TransferMyVideo is that it does not copy “protected” DVDs. But all our favorite videos are “protected”.

The solution to the problem turns out to be extremely simple. There is a small - again FREE - piece of neat software that can be downloaded and used to unlock our videos. Its called DVD43 (the gives us the green smiley face on the left). Once downloaded, it just sits on our desktop and auto unlocks videos when we use software such as TransferMyVideo. Its super cool and that easy to use (ie it does it all without us having to doa thing!)

All we have to do is: put video into our computer’s  DVD player; open TransferMyVideo; select “My DVD”; wait a few seconds for the titles to load (this does not happen if you have not downloaded the free DVD43 unlock software); select the movie file to be copied; click “convert”.

TransferMyVideo converts the DVD very quickly to iPhone compatible format (at about twice playing speed). When the DVD has been converted to an iPhone playable file, it will be auto loaded to iTunes and can be found in the Movies library ready to be synced to an iPhone.

The links for the two free bits of software that allow us to watch our DVDs on our iPhone are:

DVD43 and TransferMy Video

Now, as we explained in our previous post, the TransferMyVideo software is free but comes with the watermark in the middle of the screen (as seen in the above screen shot showing My Oceans 13 DVD playing on my iPhone. But the non-watermark version is very cheap- you can download it HERE!

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April 20th, 2009 by admin

If you have paid for a movie, then no-one expects you to pay for it again just so you can watch it on the TV in your bedroom! So why should you have to pay for it again so that you can watch it on your iPhone? You definitely should not.

But - sadly for us - the iPhone is limited because it has been designed to play only certain types of videos. And that basically forces us to get all the movies and TV shows we want to watch on our iPones from iTunes (and while there are the occasional freebies, most movies typically cost between $9.99 and $14.99 to buy or $2.99-$3.99 for overnight rental and TV shows are typically $1.99 per show - convenient, but those charges add up to big bucks real fast!)

Huh? But that has all changed because a software utility has been developed that can take any video and convert it in to a format that the iPhone understands. TransferMy Video automatically does this - and it places the finished product in your iTunes library, so the video is automatically sent to your iPhone the next time you synchronize.

And best of all this fantastic software is free to download!

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