iPod In-Car Charger with FM Transmitter

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The 20 Best iPhone and iPod touch Applications

Last week we showed you how to install third party apps on your iPhone or iPod touch, and since then a new firmware preview has leaked its way to the 'nets with saucy new features that—once released—may tempt you to abandon your jailbreak for the newly introduced features. Fact is, until the 1.1.3 firmware is successfully hacked by the resourceful iPhone hackers, you can still enjoy all of the features the update is bringing and more with your jailbroken iPhone. Today I'm taking a look at my 20 favorite (that's right, 20) third-party iPhone and iPod touch apps.

NOTE: Apologies for the gallery format on the screenshots, but I wanted to provide full-size screenshots (sometimes more than one) for every app. All of the applications below are available through Installer.app, which can be installed by jailbreaking your iPhone. For more details on each app, click through to the gallery page (again, sorry). Some of the apps will work perfectly on both the iPhone and iPod touch, while others are obviously a bit more iPhone-oriented. I've only tested these apps on the iPhone. Want to learn more about all things iPhone? Check out How to Do Everything with your iPhone, written by me and my pal Jason Chen from Gizmodo.

Apps that Cover Rumored 1.1.3 Features

In case you haven't seen it, here's a video highlighting the upcoming features in the 1.1.3 firmware release.

First let's tackle the hot apps of the moment—those apps that can already bring you the features rumored to be in the 1.1.3 update. The major new features appear to be the faux-GPS in Google Maps, multi-recipient SMS, and re-ordering apps on the home screen. Two of the apps above have been covering those features for quite some time (Navizon for GPS and Customize for re-ordering apps), and the third, iSMS for mutli-recipient SMS, is a bit newer, but in addition to multi-recipient SMS, it offers quick-reply templates, emoticons, and a much more robust SMS management system. It does not currently offer MMS messaging, though there is an iPhone app (called SwirlyMMS) that is attempting the MMS road, though it's still a bit bumpy. MMS messages can be sent (though it requires a bit of setup), but so far not received.

• iSMS
• Navizon GPS
• Customize

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The only major new feature that's been discovered in the 1.1.3 update that isn't easily available through Installer is the new web clip feature that allows the user to bookmark a web page directly on the home screen. There are hacks around that accomplish this, but they're not the kind of no-brainer installations as the above three apps. The WebSearch app described below, however, is arguably a good deal more useful for what I need than the web clips, so I can happily do without for the time being.

Now that I've covered the 1.1.3 features (I'll include in these apps in the sections below by category as well), lets move onto my twenty favorite iPhone apps.

Communication

Below we've got a more robust SMS client, a multi-protocol IM app, and a simple utility that adds push email capabilities to IMAP accounts—including Gmail.

• iSMS
• Apollo
• iMapIdle

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Multimedia

The multimedia list is a big one, so I'll just highlight a few. You've got a Last.fm client and scrobbler for your iPod, a feature-rich camera app, and a real-time lyrics app that automagically sucks lyrics for your music from the cloud.

• Books
• MobileScrobbler
• iFlix
• CameraPro
• TuneWiki

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Productivity

One of my favorites, the WebSearch app adds one-click search to any site, while Sketches is a great whiteboard tool and drawing pad.

• Sketches
• WebSearch

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Utilities

There are obviously quite a few great iPhone utilities, so to highlight just a few: OpenSSH is what I used to tether my iPhone data plan to my laptop; DropCopy is great for sharing files between your phone or iPod and your desktop; Installer, obviously, is the app that makes all of this third-party app business so easy; Navizon does the faux-GPS for Google Maps; and Customize covers app re-ordering and just about any other customization you'd want to make to your little iPod or iPhone.

• OpenSSH
• iTrac
• iPhoneHome
• iSpit
• DropCopy
• Installer
• Navizon GPS
• Customize

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Games

There are actually tons of games available on the iPhone at this point, but these three stand out as favorites because of their impressive use of the iPhone's animation engine or for just being plain addictive.

Gallery Name

• NES
• iSolitaire
• HuaRongDao

via lifehacker

$40K to fill an iPod? One third of PCs use LimeWire instead

Pop quiz: what music and movie downloading app is installed on over one third of the world's computers, according to a new report from Digital Music News and media tracking specialist BigChampagne? The answer isn't iTunes, nor is it any other DRM-encumbered media program that has been blessed by Big Content. The answer is LimeWire*, with a presence on an estimated 36.4 percent of the world's PCs.

Related Stories

• iTunes to everyone: sucks to be you
• Judge refuses to entertain Lime Wire conspiracy theories against RIAA
• Get your Grooveshark on: new P2P service will give users a cut of the sales
• Lime Wire countersues RIAA

[Ed: Further review of the raw data shows that the press release was wrong, and that LimeWire's installed base is much less than 36.4 percent. However, the report still puts the total installed base of P2P file-sharing software at 35.4 percent, so this article's conclusions still stand, albeit with respect to the general darknet instead of LimeWire in specific. See "Update II" below for more.]

Clearly, the so-called "darknet" remains far and away the world's leading provider of online media content, drowning legit download services in a flood of "free." This data also should give the major labels pause in their ongoing attempts to convince Apple that $0.99 per song is way too cheap.

The labels may be tempted to take comfort in the report's other finding that, as prevalent as LimeWire is, its uptake has been virtually flat over the past year. But a recent report on nighttime P2P traffic levels found Bittorrent to be the dominant P2P protocol, suggesting that either BT clients are even more popular than the already ubiquitous LimeWire application, or that BT users download more and/or larger files.

Between LimeWire and Bittorrent, the ongoing and extremely widespread popularity of P2P as a media delivery vehicle suggest that music prices remain stuck at too high a level while the capacity of portable media players continues to balloon. Does anyone remember the iPod launch, when there were jokes about how it would cost a user a few grand to fill up an iPod at the iTunes music store? Now that number is well into the five figures for a current-generation iPod, a fact that forces users to turn to other sources of digital content if they're to come even close to filling their iPods.

And when I say "filling iPods," I do mean the iPod specifically, and not portable media players generically. Unlike non-Apple DRM offerings from movie and music providers, LimeWire happens to be 100 percent compatible with the most popular media player on the planet. This has to be a factor in its ongoing popularity—it's a free alternative to iTunes for users who just want that single or bootleg NOW, or who don't care that it takes 45 minutes to put together a complete album plus artwork at a decent bitrate.

Update: I just want to make a quick update in response to some of the more inane comments in the discussion thread, and note that the idea on which this article is premised, i.e. that a thriving gray or black market in a particular commodity is evidence of overpricing (typically from a monopoly or cartel) in the legit market, is pretty uncontroversial in economics when applied to things like drugs and non-union labor.

So I don't really understand where there's a lot to disagree with here, at least from the standpoint of basic arithmetic. I mean, gray and black markets aren't really about morality--they're about simple supply and demand.

Black markets typically carry with them a certain amount of cost for participants (i.e. the lack of government sanctioning makes contracts hard to enforce, increases risks, exposes participants to legal liability, etc.), so they're by no means "free." (This is why I put "free" in quotes in the article).

People, as rational actors, make a calculation, and they're willing to incur those black market costs when they're priced out of the legit market.

So this isn't about the "morality" of "stealing music" or any other such sentimental silliness. It's about old-fashioned supply and demand.

Update II: Digital Music News's official press release for this report got the LimeWire installed base numbers from the report pretty wrong. A look at the raw data shows that LimeWire has a 36 percent share of the installed P2P client base—not, as was previously reported, 36 percent penetration on all PCs. In terms of overall PC penetration, the actual number of PCs with LimeWire installed is put at about 18 percent by the report. This makes LimeWire far and away the leading P2P client, but it's nowhere near a one third installed base.

But even the revised numbers bear out my point above. The report found that about 35 percent of all PCs have some type of P2P file-sharing software installed. So again, for media downloads, the darknet still rules.

via arstechnica

iPod touch VOIP update: SIP signalization working

iPhone hacker eok writes to let me know that he and Samuel have gotten SIP registration and signalization working. They took a few mobile terminal shots, but the real work is being done via ssh. Samuel is working on connecting the audio in/out to the pjSIP. If you have iPhone or iPod touch coding skills and want to get involved in the project, connect to #touchmods on irc.undernet.org. It looks like most of the work will be done on European time.

Oh, and if anyone is giving away free iPods to worthy developers? eok recommends that Samuel gets one first. He writes that Samuel has been the driving force behind the compilation.

via [tuaw]

Tuffshield : Sheer protection from scratches and dust for Apple Gadget

Price : $14.95

Crystal Clear screen and click wheel protection
3 protectors + cleaning cloth

Sheer protection from scratches and dust
TuffShield™ screen and click wheel protectors are built to withstand the rigors of everyday iPod or iPhone use.

TuffShields combine a state-of-the-art H3 hard coating, with PET polymers and a micro-thin silicone layer, to create the best sheer protection from scratches and dirt. Each TuffShield package contains three films custom-cut for the intended device and a microfiber cleaning cloth for use on the films and the entire iPod.

more information via XtremeMac

XtremeMac Tango Studio

Price : $79.95
Tango Studio is a compact audio system perfect for a bookshelf or desktop. The system is powered by two full range loudspeakers and a full stereo high-dynamic amplifier to deliver excellent audio performance.

Features

• High-dynamic full range speakers for superior sound
• Built-in FM radio and auxiliary line-in jack
• Advanced remote for iPod and radio
• Retractable universal dock well fits any iPod
• Easy to read display behind sleek cloth grill
• Compact design perfect for home, office or dorm

via gizmodo and XtremeMac

Ipod nano : a little video for every one

Price : $144.00 - $193.87 at 5 online stores. click here

It’s the small iPod with one very big idea: Video. Now the world’s most popular music player lets you enjoy TV shows, movies, video podcasts, and more. The larger, brighter display means amazing picture quality. In five eye-catching colors, iPod nano is stunning all around. And with 4GB and 8GB models starting at just $149, little speaks volumes.







Features :

Video
Watch up to 5 hours of TV shows, music videos, movies, and podcasts.

Enhanced Interface
Browse your music by album artwork with Cover Flow. View everything on your iPod nano in a whole new way.

Brighter Display
iPod nano sports a larger, 320-by-240-resolution display that’s 65 percent brighter than before.

Newly Redesigned
In anodized aluminum and polished stainless steel, iPod nano is now 6.5 mm thin and even more beautiful.

Touch comes to Ipod

Music, Video, photos and websites in 8GB and 16GB model starting at $299
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FEATURES:

Multi-touch interface.
The revolutionary technology that made iPhone a hit is now on one amazing iPod.

Gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen display.
Touch your music in Cover Flow and watch video on a stunning, widescreen display.

Wi-Fi web browsing.
Browse the web with Safari and watch YouTube videos on the first-ever Wi-Fi iPod.

Music downloads from iTunes.
Search, preview, and buy songs from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store on iPod

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