Video Capability For Your iPhone 3g

Are you feeling lost and lonely as you watch the world flock to the iPhone 3GS? Are  you one of the people like me who salivated like a hungry dog at the first mention of the new bells and whistles that the 3GS was bringing us? Then, like me, were you dejected when you found out that  AT+T was not going to give us a break on the upgrade price, and that you would have to wait until the end of your contract servitude to gain access to things like the world of iPhone video?

There's a quick, easy fix for the issue of being left out of the iPhone video world. First, embrace jailbreaking.  Next, get on over to the Cydia store and download the very cool app Cycorder, it's free. Fire it up and you will find yourself immediately shooting very high quality video for a mobile device. The app takes full advantage of the camera in your iPhone, and shoots up to 15 fps. It saves the video as .mov files, and you can immediately view them from within the app itself. Bingo- you have video on your iPhone and you can stop feeling like a loser.

So now the video lives on your iPhone. You can show it to anyone on the phone, but what good is it if you can't  email it to your friends or share it on Facebook or YouTube? The solution in the past was to utilize SSH and use it to file share between your computer and your iPhone. For the technically challenged this is a daunting thought, even with the help of an app like Netatalk. The easy solution is DiskAid, go get it free on the web, for Mac or Windows. This application recognizes your iPhone as soon as you connect it to your computer, and allows you to transfer the video to your desktop or specified folder in two clicks as a .mov file that opens up in QuickTime. Then do whatever your heart desires, Facebook it to your friends, upload it to YouTube, or throw it into iMovie and edit.

A very cool option for video sharing is to use Qik.com. Go to Cydia and get Qik for free, open a Qik.com account online, select "other" for device and when you plug in Qik  will automatically recognize your iPhone. You can stream live video to the world as easy as pie just by touching the record button. That video will be stored in your Qik account online and you and your friends can access it from anywhere.

So don't feel left out of the cool click. Take a little initiative and score yourself a feature that technically we all should have had from the day that Apple nuked iPhone Video recorder from  the App Store. It's easy, and best of all- it's free.