What does iPling do? Essentially it’s a social networking application designed specifically for use with 3G enabled iPhones. Rather creepily it allows anonymous users to contact and discuss shared interests. Fortunately iPling manages to keep your phone number and email address from the other person: they only find out sensitive information about you if you give it to them.

Like many iPhone apps its use is going to be subject to fads; like any social network it will rely on a critical mass of people who are going to use this before it becomes usable. Other iPhone apps suffer the same problem.

The iPhone is a gadget that targets a particular corner of the market very actively; unfortunately it only corners that section of the market and you’ve got to ask just how successful you think a social networking app will be in that context.

The first in my list of iPhone accessories is my case and screen protector. Given that most of the iPhone is the screen, it really is prone to scratches and slight bangs.

One of the defining features of the iPhone is its crystal clear screen. Hopefully

my screen protector will help my keep the screen crystal clear for as long as possible.

Another of my favorite iPhone accessories is the Bluetooth headset. Not only does this make me look like some kind of space-age android on a mission to save the earth, it’s also wonderfully useful when I want to talk while keeping my hands free of distractions.

Apple are always releasing more iPhone accessories and there are plenty of independent vendors getting in on the act too, so you should have no problem finding new toys to play with. Apple’s business model is based around the sale of ‘extras’ for the iPhone and people like me have no trouble in obliging them. How are we expected to resist?

Being a bit of an Apple geek I thought I’d do some research on the app store. It seems that Apple have big plans. It seems also that, for once, Apple hasn’t predicted what will happen in the real world.

Apple, it seems, originally planned for the situation where each app bought in the app store would cost around $10. That would bring them $3 in revenue (they will be taking a 30% cut); added up over the millions of apps likely to be served through the app store, Apple will soon make a healthy profit.

They hadn’t imagined, though, that around 71% of all apps would be offered for free through the app store; nor had they imagined that their estimate price of $10 would be so far off the mark. This is the harsh reality that is being painted by a recent survey of 20 iPhone developers at WWDC which suggested that the average cost of an app would be – gulp — $2.29.

Of course while this is fairly bad news for Apple (they’ll bounce back, I’m certain) it’s fantastic news for users like me.

Ellen’s 12 Days of Giveaways and Myvu was honored when the host herself mentioned Myvu as one of the coolest they’d ever given way.
It really is a neat gadget to add on if you own a iphone or iPod. What this does is converts your miniature iPhone/iPod screen into a movie screen. The best part is this gadget that it looks futuristic not like a 3 year old kid look wearing those 3D glasses of the past. This is a neat looking stylish pair of glasses similar to the Oakley Thump but enables you to watch movie.

On the side note……..
If you’re looking for an Apple iPhone games then you might be disappointed: online stores have reportedly run out, and brick and mortar establishments are running low. Why would Apple, one of the biggest companies in the world, allow stocks of their top selling toy to lapse so dramatically. The answer is in the question: they allowed this to happen.

So the next rather obvious question is why they would do this. Well, that’s easy when you think about it, too. Apple’s plan is to release the next generation of iPhone games in the relatively near future; holding back on stocks of the older iPhone games helps in three ways. Firstly it creates a demand which the new version will then satisfy. The second reason is that Apple are very keen to sell their iPod/iPhone hybrid thingy. Thirdly it simply saves them having to make and ship more old iPhone games that would then potentially be recalled.