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Let’s forget that the economy is about to collapse and people are running short on disposable income. Amazon doesn’t seem to care as they’ve just released an iPhone app that will help us to buy more useless crap.

When you upload a photo, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk workers try to match the photo up to products on sale on Amazon.com. You will get results back in 5 minutes to 24 hours, and you’re susceptible to human error. It should be interesting trying to buy one HDTV and getting the link for another. Good luck, people.

Click HERE to head to the App Store and download it.

The other night, we were watching newest episode of The Simpsons and boy did we enjoy it. During a trip to the mall, Lisa enters the Mapple Store and receives a myPod from Krusty. After Bart interrupts an important message from Mapple founder Steve Mobbs, angry Mapple customers chase him out of the Springfield Mall. There are few Apple-related parodies that really amused us.

We’re not going to give anything else away so check out the episode at Hulu.

Merry Christmas, young man! You’ve just been blessed with a free copy of Final Cut Studio 2 straight from Cupertino.  A Greenwich High School wrote a letter to Steve Jobs asking for the educational discount on a copy of Final Cut Studio 2 and ended up getting the damn thing for free. Lucky lad, aren’t ya?

Richard Townhill, Director, Pro Video Product Marketing replied to the boy asking for the mailing address. His Steveness gets another pinching of the cheeks.

Read the sent letter and reply below. (more…)

The new firmware update for your precious iPhone has hit iTunes.  The 246 MB package gives you Street View, over-the-air podcast downloading, and some much-needed bug fixes. Also, public transit, walking directions, and the ability to share your location via email are all making their way to the iPhone leaving us content for the moment.

There are lots of other upgrades so head to iTunes and download the new firmware and let us know how it goes.

Orb 2.0 just popped up in the App Store.  What does Orb 2.0 do?  It’s a media-streaming app that lets you watch live TV from a tuner connected to a Windows PC, as well as stream music, videos, and photos from their libraries.  Plus, Orb lets you monitor a webcam, so you can spy on your roommate to make sure he stays on the other side of the line.

No date yet for Mac and Linux, but be patient.

Buy It: $9.99 via App Store

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Damn, so close.  Scandinavian wireless carrier TeliaSonera is planning a homegrown application that will grant multimedia messaging functionality to the handset.  Let’s hope the application makes it through Apple’s approval.  After that, it’s only a matter of time before it lands in the App Store in the US.

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Google’s iPhone Search app is live, so head to iTunes and grab it from the App Store.  The guys over at Gizmodo have already tested it out and given some screen shots.

“Gizmodo” was understood, surprisingly, as was “bear market” and “bare ass”. That’s right, it was smart enough to tell the difference between the words bear and bare, depending on the context. Also super cool?

Grab the app HERE.

For people on the go, a notebook (obviously) is the best way to go.  For people on the go, a 17″ display that gives you a numberpad is not the way to go.  I travel with an 11″ display and when I’m punching numbers, I’m left without a numberpad for ease of use.

For Mac users, this dilemma is gone with the help of a new iPhone app called numberkey.  Perfect for heavy duty spreadsheet users, this nifty new application for the iPhone and iPod Touch lets you use your mobile device as an ad-hoc numeric keypad for your Mac. Just install Balmuda’s Numberkey connect software onto your Mac, then grab the mobile app from the App Store for $1.99. The two pieces of software communicate via Wi-Fi, adding a familiar 18-key numeric keyboard to your Mac without wires. Not bad, right?

Thanks to technabob

Word is that Firmware 2.2 for the iPhone is coming on November 21st.  The tipster is said to be “consistently reliable” by Gizmodo, so we should take their word for it, right?

Rumor has it that there is still no sign of copy and paste support.  There are other goodies so check the list below.

• Street View, public transportation and walking directions for Maps
• An always-visible search field in Safari
• A rating request before you delete an app
• The ability to download podcasts directly to your handset
• Location sharing via email
• Support for Emoji icons
• An option to turn off auto-correction

Cross your fingers, people!

NPD is reporting that the Motorola RAZR has lost the number-one spot for domestic handset sales this year.  The iPhone will be to blame for the RAZR’s demise.  So is this the end of the flip phone era?  Full-featured devices are the future, and the iPhone is leading the way.  It recently gained more ground over RIM for the second-best smartphone vendor.  It’s only a matter of time before Apple takes down Symbian for the number-one spot.

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