If you have an iPod Touch, then you know the benefit of finding apps that work offline. But some iPhone owners, too, need offline access from time-to-time. Maybe you spend your commute in an underground subway or perhaps your office building has shoddy cell coverage, or maybe you just want to use your iPhone on a plane…whatever the reason, offline access to apps is still a necessary evil these days. Not to worry, though, lack of a signal doesn’t mean you have to put your iPhone (or iPod) away - there are plenty of apps today that work offline. Here are some of our favorites. Evernote (Read the full post about ‘Seven Must-Have Offline Apps For Your iPhone/iPod Touch’…)

Not content with Android, the Google Mobile team has pulled another trick out of their sleeve: Gmail for mobile 2.0. Really, this is Gmail for mobile 2.0.6, but why quibble with details.BlackBerry users got the bulk of the updates last month, with the Google Mobile App for BlackBerry, but now Gmail 2.0 has been pushed out to all J2ME phones.Here are the highlights:Offline support: This is big. You can read recent e-mail and compose messages, even if you don’t have a signal. Messages you compose offline will be put in the outbox and sent as soon as you have a signal. Multiple account support: (Read the full post about ‘Offline support comes to mobile Gmail’…)

BrightKite was already the Cadillac of location-based social networking, but it just got even better with the release of an iPhone app. Checking in is a breeze using the iPhone’s GPS, and the app is pumped up with new features that make it a dramatic improvement over the old web version. There’s been a buzz around Brightkite for iPhone for some time now, and it totally lives up to the hype.The ability to message nearby users in an iChat-like interface is definitely a plus, and helps to make the service more social. “Place snapping” quickly attaches a name to your location, giving you a (Read the full post about ‘Brightkite for iPhone is the best BrightKite yet’…)

Remember back in August when Steve Jobs confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that a “kill switch” existed within the iPhone API, allowing Apple to remotely disable malicious third-party applications distributed through the App Store? A big brouhaha ensued with lots of hand-wringing about how a closed marketplace wasn’t acting like purely free market (shocker). Nevermind that the “kill switch” hasn’t actually been used to remove apps from user phones and is actually just a security precaution to protect users against programs that might do actual harm to software devices (or I guess, (Read the full post about ‘Android Marketplace gets a ‘kill switch”…)

Gmail has been supporting IMAP for almost exactly a year now, and they’re celebrating by fixing the only thing I don’t like about it! One of the latest brilliant ideas to come out of Google Labs is an advanced IMAP controls option that lets you mark messages for deletion without actually deleting them, and send your deleted messages to the trash instead of archiving them, Most importantly, you can hide individual Gmail mailboxes from your IMAP mail client. That sounds like a picky thing, and not really a big deal, but it’s actually huge for me. You may have noticed that Gmail has a mailbox (Read the full post about ‘Google Labs introduces advanced IMAP controls for Gmail’…)

So you’ve decided to install Ubuntu on your computer, but you’re not ready to give up Windows altogether. No problem. During the install process, just take care not to overwrite Windows and you can have a dual boot setup in under an hour. But what’s this? The GRUB bootloader adds 10 seconds to your startup time if you don’t hit the key to skip the countdown. And it automatically assumes Ubuntu should be your default operating system. It’s relatively simple to tweak your GRUB menu by editing the menu.lst file hanging out in the grub directory of your Ubuntu file system’s boot folder. You can (Read the full post about ‘Ubuntu tip: Use Startup Manager to edit your boot menu’…)

Traditionally, the greatest power that governments have held over their people has been information. The promise that connectivity brings to Africa is that people are now using that abundance of information for oversight of government and more interaction with administrations. To say that the propagation of internet and mobile connectivity in Africa has been disruptive is an understatement. A number of web and mobile applications are undermining the efforts of dictators and totalitarian governments, allowing them to be more readily be held accountable for their actions. In this post we (Read the full post about ‘Social Media in Africa, Part 3: Democracy’…)

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You know how RealNetworks confidently launched a commercial DVD ripping program and then went and pre-emptively sued a bunch of movie studios to demonstrate in court that the software doesn’t infringe on copyrights? Yeah, the studios sued back. And while the courts figure out how to deal with the whole mess, RealNetworks has been ordered to stop selling the RealDVD software.NewTeeVee reports that this is just a temporary shutdown until Tuesday. The purpose is to give the judge time to review the details of the case.Meanwhile, there are still plenty of applications that will let you rip DVDs (Read the full post about ‘US Court temporarily prohibits RealDVD sales’…)

I love Windows XP’s file and settings transfer tool. It makes backing up customer data prior to a reformat a painless procedure, and I’ve never had any problems with the app itself. I’ve forgotten it doesn’t automatically grab .pst files, but that’s my own damn fault. But what can you do when Windows won’t boot? Running a repair isn’t a great option: the setup could run into trouble, and then you’re right back where you started. Fab’s Autobackup is a slick, free utility that I wish I’d come across a long, long time ago. It’s available as a PE Builder plugin or as portable application. The (Read the full post about ‘Can’t get Migwiz to run? Fab’s Autobackup to the rescue!’…)