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Apple creates iPhone-specific trailers site


For as long as I can remember, apple.com/trailers has been a great, ad-free place to see all the latest movie trailers in the one of the best video formats available on (and off) the web. During my ceaseless tinkering, I just noticed that Apple has created a sub-page at apple.com/trailers/iphone specifically for the iPhone, offering access to what looks like the same content and trailers you can view with a regular computer browser. In fact, visiting that URL in any desktop browser, including Safari 3 beta, redirects to the main /trailers/ site, ensuring that visitors don't get mixed up with the wrong page.

Perhaps even cooler, selecting a trailer on the iPhone reveals a page with a static picture where the trailer would be, and a play icon. Clicking this icon appears to take the user to an iPod-like app, where the trailer begins to buffer, and all movie controls are available. As icing on the cake, if you're already listening to media in the iPod app, your music/podcast will gracefully fade out, giving the trailer you want to watch full priority until you exit the movie.

Filed under: iTS, Software, Video, Internet Tools, iTunes, Apple

Saving Quicktime Trailers from Apple



Saving any QuickTime movie is a breeze if you have QuickTime Pro. I downloaded this Fantastic Four trailer (in HD), let it finish loading, and then selected File > Save As... and I was done. What if you don't want to shell out the dough for a QT Pro license? Well, Krunk4Ever (who isn't a fan of QT) has a tip that'll let you download the trailers from Apple just by delving into the HTML of the trailer webpage and using a little command line trickery to download the file.

Pretty cool, I suppose, but it is much easier to just visit the iTunes Store Movie Trailer section and download the videos that way. iTunes will happily download any trailer that is available and scot free at that, no DRM in sight. Oddly, though, it does place the trailers in the 'Podcast' section of your iTunes library.

Each of these three options will get the job done though one isn't free, one isn't easy, and one is both free and easy. Choose wisely.

Filed under: Widget Watch

Widget Watch: HBO Widget


I haven't been this impressed with a widget's capabilities in a long time. The HBO widget is highly functional and eye candy-infused, allowing you not only to check the program guides for both HBO and Cinemax channels, but you can browse and view their 'large collection' of teasers right inside the widget. Top that all off with a really slick minimizing ability to get all this intensive content out of your way when you'd rather save the cycles, and I think I've found the latest widget to receive a 'click of my mouse™.'

The widget is, of course, free and available from HBO's site.

[via Daring Fireball]

Tip of the Day

To get an instant map to any address, just go to your Address Book and right click on the address field of any one of your contacts and select "Map Of." The address will then be revealed in Google Maps on Safari. You can do the same if a data detector determines there is an address in an e-mail in Mail.


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