At Macworld today, Steve announced an update for the iPod touch to bring it more in line with the iPhone. An update can be obtained today for $20 bringing Mail, Maps, Stocks, Weather, and Notes to the iPod touch. The upgrade will give iPod touch access to Wi-Fi cell triangulation virtual GPS, and Webclips to customize your homescreen. Most of everything the iPhone has will be ported over to the iPod touch to make it more of an all-in-one device.
Tunewear sells a wide variety of cases and accessories for most of Apple’s portable products, but this time it’s a case for the iPod touch. The Icewear case is made of tough silicone and has Tunewear’s patented “rib technology” for a strong grip.
Though the case does not cover the screen, we have all seen in pasts tests that the screen is probably the most rugged part of the entire iPod touch or iPhone. Leaving it unprotected allows for maximum use of the phone while still having the rest of it protected.
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The Apple store will be holding a special one-day shopping sale to keep the tradition of Black Friday on Friday the 23rd. It doesn’t look like there will be any major sellouts or deals on the store, but there will most likely be combo deals, and a few discounts for accessories and possibly small discounts for laptops. I’m not sure how Apple usually does Black Friday, but usually Apple doesn’t have anything more than 5-10%.
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If this doesn’t show just how popular the iPod touch jailbreak is, I don’t know what will. Seen in the picture is an iPod touch with iSkin’s model “touch”, and most importantly; installer.app, ApolloIM, and what appears to be finder.
Jailbreaking is catching on amongst users, while I personally think the iPod touch and iPhone are both ridiculously boring without 3rd party apps and definitely have more of a potential selling. The multitouch screen is revolutionary and with games such as “Hockey” from iApp-a-Day, the iPhone and iPod touch’s potential is clearly shown.
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Looking for voice recording on the iPod touch? It may soon be possible due to a new hack taking the Apple docking cable apart, using the line in pins, connecting them to a source such as a microphone, and using Erica Sadun’s voice record application to record any source.
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Seeqpod is by far the coolest and most useful web application usable by Safari on both the iPod touch and iPhone. Seeqpod is an application that lists music by popular searches from open web servers it finds. Not sure about the legality of this, but it’s definitely a great web application.
The application lets you search for artists or tracks of your choice, or will let you chose from popular artists and playlists. The popular artists section gives a nice current list of artists, most of them you will know who they are.
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After long waiting for a keyboard and resizing abilities, the VNsea dev team released version 0.5.0 Monday with everything everybody has been waiting for. Along with a keyboard tab they added a number of other Apple keyboard buttons, fix vertical or horizontal, and ability to resize the window.
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