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Free Wireless mouse on your iPhone

OK, so I was watching one of my favorite Revision 3 shows AppJudgement (YouTube link) and they were doing a Hot App of the day and they came across this little gem. It’s Logitech’s Touch Mouse, and it’s completely FREE. It basically connects to your PC or Mac over wifi and gives you a trackpad and a keyboard to work with! Did I mention that it was FREE??!!! The lag time isn’t even really there either. I used it for a few minutes and it’s great. Now I can run my computer hooked up to my flat screen TV across the room!!! You need the Logitech software installed on your PC or Mac, that you can get from Logitech.com/touchmouse. If you paid for other wireless mouse apps in the app store, I’m sorry, because this is awesome! AppJudgement didn’t go into much detail, but you can see this guy’s video below:

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via [AppJudgement]

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Facebook quietly adds contact syncing

So facebook quietly update their iPhone application earlier this week. What’s the major update? Contact syncing of course! It allows you to connect your iPhone contacts with your facebook friends and even download their picture from their profile! This used to cost a few bucks extra to have an un official app do this for you, but now the official app does it for freezies! Check out some screenshots below:

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iTunes online

So, now lala is now property of Apple. Did anyone notice what happened to the Apple’s website, specifically the iTunes section? They now have iTunes Preview. Basically if you don’t have iTunes or want to download it, but you want to hear a preview of the song your looking for, you can now hear it without having to have iTunes installed on your local PC. The only thing that doesn’t work is buying. You still have to have iTunes on your PC to make your purchase. So when you try to buy it, it links directly to iTunes and loads up the page inside of the app.

I must have missed the announcement, but still this cool to see iTunes online. Check out the Preview on apple.com/itunes

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iPhone Rumors aside, a 5MP camera sounds awesome!

iphone3gWith the iPhone rumors a stirr, since there is a scheduled event that normally takes place around January every year, I figured I would give you one that I thought was rather interesting and seemed a bit more plausible for a June/July 2010 release. I assume that they would talk about it in the January event, and make us wait till June, like they have before. The tidbits that I am hearing is about a new 5MP camera that would shoot 1080p video. Now I find this plausible because of the source of the current iPhone’s camera, OmniVision seems to say they will be supplying Apple with a lot of these cameras for a summer release. To be completely honest, I would be more than thrilled to know that I waited 2 years for the 4th gen iPhone and skipped the 3GS. I would be even happier if AT&T would get off their duff and make the iPhone use its 7.2Mbps connection, or at least have 4G ready by then, and would make it a perfect union of 4’s! With this camera, it looks like you will also be able to shoot 1080p video! Does that mean we will finally be able to watch our HD versions of our movies?? Because I have a lot of podcasts that I watch everyweek, but I have to watch them on my PC b/c my iPhone doesn’t do HD. How about it Apple, you could blow M$ out of the water with an iPhone HD. The only thing is, the iPhone screen is still a crummy 320×480. I guess if they did a 5MP camera, they would also have to up the screen resolution as well.. that’s my take on it.

Merry Christmas!!

via [ArsTechnica] & [TUAW]

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-Sent from my iPhone is still ok!

So I was on digg (as I am everyday..) and I was reading this article about Steve Jobs being a man of few words, and I absolutely LOVED it!!! This was a great read, but I had to laugh at his reply, it had the “Sent from my iPhone” signature attached! I remember reading an article somewhere saying that it was no longer o.k. to do that, and that you were just being a doucebag if you still had that on your emails.

Well, king of douchebags is still doing it, so I call it now, it’s still o.k.!

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where fore art thou tethering for the iPhone?

Has anyone questioned At&t and why we don’t have tethering yet on the iPhone? Have we just completely forgot that we were told that we would have it by the end of summer this year??? It was talked about that we would pay an extra $10 for the option (above the $30 for unlimited data) as do the blackberry users. This information was presented to us at the time of release of the iPhone 3.0 OS. When the iPhone 3GS was launched across the globe, many countries got this feature right off the bat, along with MMS! At&t dropped the ball and we didn’t get MMS until September!!!! Surprisingly, they didn’t even charge extra for having a feature that my black Razr V3 had like 7 years ago!!!! Here we are, going into the Christmas season of 09′ and we still have no road map or anything telling us when it is coming!

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photo credit: ismashphone.com

The good thing is, I’m not a newby iPhone user and I have jailbroken mine. (Mind you, I don’t know how it actually works, but at least I can download the software and get out from the apple chains!!!) I actually updated my carrier file to 5.0 before Apple updated to 3.1 and I’ve had tethering enabled for quite a while now, and it didn’t require a jailbreak! Before that, I was using iPhoneModem 3.0, which I still use every now and then if I don’t have the USB cable.

There are plenty of other options out there as well, and a few that made it into the iTunes App store, but were eventually pulled. To be honest, I really don’t use the option that much, as I am either at work, home or even school where there is wireless that I can hope on. The only time I don’t use work or school and iPhone modem instead is when I want to do some financial transaction.

You can see where this post got inspired from:

via [Digg] via [iSmashphone]

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