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The iPhone magnetic mount lenses come in three versions, a wide angle lens, a telephoto lens and a fish eye lens. - sandhal from Bookmarklet

I read about these back in December. Have they been released? Has anyone seen them or used them? - M C Morgan

It seems quite useful - LoreArtifex from Bookmarklet

Yahoo's doing lots of useful stuff lately. But I don't feel comfortable building on, say, YQL, without knowing Yahoo will exist next year. :-/ - Jeremy Dunck

Been playing around with this. Some nice components to aggregate a bunch of the social nets and easily update. Not completely sold yet. - Dana D

"I've used Pandora, Last.fm, Mufin and some others but I keep coming back to Blip.fm" - Russellreno

Have to say that Twisten.fm works a bit better in some aspects. - Jesper Jazzper Isaksson

of course I meant "impossible to share an item *after* you read the original article": the article will not show up on GR once you go back to your reading list, because it is already "marked as read" - santiromero

I fully agree with the original point, not because of Google Reader, but because of how it affects my FF reading when I use Tabulate. - MiniMage, enterRUPPted

Whatever you do, though, don't go thinking this is SimCity Lite. This mobile version is fully featured, with pre-built cities, accountant recommendations, water pipes, natural disasters, etc. The works. [Pinching] in as close as you can on the 2D sprites reveals intricate details, such a smoke emitting from towers, or shading alongside the buildings. Overall, a really nice graphical presentation that compares similarly to SimCity 3000. - Kelly W. from Bookmarklet

@Colide81 Appshopper has a handy feed you can subscribe to for new apps. If you really wanted to get fancy, you could run that through Yahoo Pipes to get an update in your feed reader when the app is released. - Devon Campbell

The pop-up notification UI is completely obstructive and outdated. Apple's got to change the notification model to mimic the one on Android phones, by using the menu bar and a button to open it like a drawer. - Dudu P

agree Android does this better than iPhone. so does Windows Mobile and S60. it's a definite weak spot, although those aren't as nifty as Android. - Jon Price

good idea me thinks :) - Fox Tucker

Always a good idea to reduce repetitive reiterated redundancies. - Tinfoil 2.0

don't think there's a way to merge. suggest that the admin put a note in big letters in the header telling people to go to the other room. - Jon Price

why? - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

Jon, I believe this is just a patent... meaning that they aren't really actively working on this for an near and upcoming iPhone update. There are lots of things Apple has patented that have never seen the light of day yet. - David Bisset

""That was fast. It's barely Nov. 21 and the iPhone 2.2 update is here, all 246MB of it, as promised. Included in the update, according to the release notes and as we'd heard, are all the new Google Maps features we've been waiting for like Street View (which is so far butter smooth and delicious over Wi-Fi, slightly less magical over 3G), public transit and walking directions, as well as over-the-air podcast downloads, mail enhancements, Safari tweaks, improved sound quality for visual voicemail, fewer dropped calls (again), and more. But you know, not MMS or copy and paste. Grab it now."" - Susan Beebe

Someone please write this game for the iPhone and distribute it for free. :D - ·[▪_▪]· from Bookmarklet

Great game. :) - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

Now that's a blast from the past! - Fox Tucker

"If you live in the US or Canada, like it or not, your English pretty much sounds the same to the outside world...and the Google iPhone application.   Those outside this area have been having less success with the Google iPhone voice recognition application it seems ... at least that's what some of our commenters have said. " - Jonathon from Bookmarklet

So Jonathon... My very best "cor blimey guvnor" accent just won't cut it? BTW, where the 'eck have you been for the last month? - Fox Tucker

I think the app was a good test of whether I still have a British accent. As it failed to understand even a basic word like "Pizza" I think I'm still in good shape :) - Jonathon

اسمایلی یه نفر که بشدت منو تحت کنترل داره تو فرندفید :)) - mhmazidi

"Don't hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe's Flash software: Apple's terms-of-service agreement prohibits it. Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone, Apple is unlikely ever to permit it to appear in the handset's App Store, no matter how much customers want it." - Jonathon from Bookmarklet

*argh* - Jason (not an Argonaut)

"In today’s Photo Journal, firefighters get the upper hand with wildfires, Zimbabweans dig for food, voter fraud allegations spur violence in Nicaragua and more" - Jonathon from Bookmarklet

这个想法真不错 - foxmachia {山石}

whoa! - vijay

One unpublicized feature introduced by Apple's latest iPhone software updates is the ability to save Web apps to the home screen and have them launch in full-screen mode without the Safari wrapper, essentially mimicking the experience of a native app. - LF Martins from Bookmarklet

Nice new feature. Google should begin taking advantage of it for Reader and Gmail on the iPhone. - Dennis Metzcher

A company called OLO Computer is working on a small laptop that'll cradle your iPhone and allow you to use it with a large screen and full keyboard. You'll simply pop the iPhone into a space where the trackpad usually sits, turning the iPhone into a trackpad. You'll then be able to type out e-mails or text messages using the keyboard, sending them through your phone. - Hao Chen from Bookmarklet

What's with the image on the screen? I know it's just a mockup, but certainly it won't actually have Mac OS X running via the iPhone. It would be cool to include a copy of Linux on the iPhone, and allow that OS to be used when the device is docked. The question is whether or not that's possible with Apple's official SDK. - Dennis Metzcher

http://thumblounge.com/topapps... or http://appstorefeeds.com if you prefer RSS - Fox Tucker

Many thanks!! I knew I had it at one time, but couldn't find it for the life of me when I actually needed it. - SusanVillasLewis

"The Facebook [iTunes link] application for the iPhone has just been updated to version 2 (although you may see it listed as version 1.1 in the store), and the new version number brings some stellar features! In this release, the Facebook team has completely revamped the user interface and brought the client up to parity with the mobile Facebook app for Blackberry" - Soup in a TARDIS

I <3 this :D - Soup in a TARDIS

did i count 3 lighter apps on that list? awful... - John Duff

note to self, make useless iphone app, make thousands - adolfo foronda

eeek. What a hot mess. How do you decide what to purchase? - Mona Nomura from Bookmarklet

I hate the crap too but on the other hand Apple would probably get hammered if they tried to censor which apps get into the store. Although they already seem to do this for apps that might compete with Apple. Bad situation. - Jon West

i'll give it a shot once it's available...background notification will be nice. - Shiva

I like it on my blackberry. Very cool! - Colide81 (James)