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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

Lovin this video. Fun and Brilliant marketing! - Fox Tucker

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

Could you elaborate Jeppe? Blip is just a search engine. None of the music resides on their servers, it just streams MP3 it finds on the net. Some (many?) of those servers are not very reliable. - Jared B. Luther

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 TKDteacher of FF

Looks just like iTalk--I'm sure it's great. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

That screenshot is almost identical to iTalk. - Bill Sodeman from fftogo

Sweet app - Brodie Beta

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

"iPhone Apps Charts and iPhone Games Charts Showing the most popular Paid and Free iPhone Games and iPhone Apps in the iTunes App Store RIGHT NOW! These iPhone Apps Charts and iPhone Games Charts use actual download data that's updated daily by Apple. NOTE: These links will start iTunes on your PC/Mac and take you the App Store page." - dK from Mento

Been updated recently to show the iPhone Apps Chart sorted by category. Nice - Fox Tucker

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

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* - JSNFLMNG

"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

"I am always amazed at how creative people can be. I mean, there are some people out there saying “I’m gonna create the first iPhone bacon case”, and they actually do it. That’s what German website Dawanda came up with and the good news is it can be yours for the price of 25 Euros." - Baard @ Pixum from Bookmarklet

This is a drawing my 4 year old daughter made after playing Trace on my iPhone. She loves playing this game, and always wants to borrow my phone to play with. It is a game with so many interesting levels. It's got wonderful music too. Here you see a drawing of her playing the game, and she even drew her finger. - Baard @ Pixum from Bookmarklet

This is actually a great game for kids because it forces them to think outside the box -- my 4 yr old plays it too, every chance he gets... - Kelly Johns

这个想法真不错 - foxmachia {山石}

whoa! - vijay

"An apparent new slip from Apple's upcoming iPhone firmware update shows the device gaining a long requested ability to download podcasts directly from the device instead of relying on an iTunes sync." - Baard @ Pixum from Bookmarklet

Although I'm sure I'll love this feature, it's too bad a 3rd party app had to be sacrificed to make it happen. - Ryan Twomey

I'd rather see this being developed by in-house by Apple, than by a third party. - Fox Tucker

"You’ve proved to those thugs in San Andreas and Liberty City you’re the baddest crime lord there is, and now you want to prove your worth in the mobile world, too? An upcoming game for iPhone called DrugLords might be right up your alley." - Baard @ Pixum from Bookmarklet

Reminds me of great game I played years ago called dopewars. It was fun. However, I'm not convinced that Apple will be happy to roll this out through iTunes. - Fox Tucker

"LockDockBar is an application that displays 4 icons on your locked screen: SMS, Calls, Emails, Calendar. The app displays the notification badges for each app so if for example you have a new email, you will see this notification next to the email icon. From there, instead of unlocking the phone and launching the mail app, you simply tap the mail icon from your lock screen and it takes you there directly." - Baard @ Pixum from Bookmarklet

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