Steve Job's leaving Apple HQ on Wednesday

This would be the first post liver transplant picture of Steve.

Speed Traps Be Gone

For decades, police have parked their cruisers behind billboards and overpass pillars to snag a common prey -- speeding motorists.
Shannon Atkinson, who launched Njection.com, offers speed-trap locations for free on the Las Vegas-based company's Web site but charges people who download to their GPS unit.
He came up with the idea because people are concerned about the cost of fines.
"More people are looking at it because speeding tickets cost more," he said. "Most communities are not looking to increase safety. They're looking to increase revenue."
get yours HERE


Related:
Police chief denounces 'cowardly' iPhone users monitoring speed traps

Guy's with iPhones

...uhhh...we're pretty sure this is gay...we're also pretty sure women will love it...AND we're absolutely sure it's NSFW
check it out HERE

iPorn Comes and Goes

For an all-too-brief flicker, porn made it onto the iPhone.
Until last Wednesday, Hottest Girls, an Apple-approved iPhone app, had stuck to nothing more racy than girls in bikinis. Then, it went topless.
more HERE

iPhone App Art on New Yorker Magazine

These days, all you need to create magazine cover-worthy artwork is an iPhone and Steve Sprang's $4.99 Brushes app. Oh, and insane talent.
Those were the ingredients that produced this week's dazzling New Yorker cover, a traditional-looking blurred street scene that looks like an authentic brush-and-canvas painting.
In reality, artist Jorge Colombo finger-painted the image while standing outside Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Times Square.
more HERE

Vatican Torn: Social Networking or Sociopathy

VATICAN CITY - You won't get an email saying Pope Benedict added you as a friend and you can't "poke" him or write on his wall, but the Vatican is still keen to use the networking site Facebook to woo young people back to church.
A new Vatican website, www.pope2you.net, has gone live, offering an application called "The pope meets you on Facebook," and another allowing the faithful to see the Pope's speeches and messages on their iPhones or iPods.
Washington Post report HERE

...their timing is mindbogglingly incredible ...reaching out for young recruits they can sexually abuse?

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Church leaders apologize for litany of horror

iPhone App Usage Data

Top 10 Apps

The average iPhone app has an engagement of 9.6 minutes per session and is accessed 19.9 times over its life cycle.
This results in an average total use time per user of three hours and 10 minutes, according to Greystripe's Q109 Consumer Insights Report (pdf), which released data about iPhone app usage among its users, as well as user response to ads placed within iPhone applications.
more HERE

THE PUNCHLINE

"There's a new iPhone app called MyNetDiary. It helps you lose weight. Here's how it works: You press Google Earth, and if you can spot yourself, you've eaten too much."
-- Jimmy Fallon

When Guys Get iPhones...

see HERE (NSFW)

iPhone Belly Button Application

...is your iPhone missing a button?
available HERE

iPants

The latest example of a cool marketer-created iPhone experience is not an app but an ad. Apparel maker Dockers San Francisco has created a "shakable," motion-sensitive ad that uses the phone's motion-detecting feature.
The innovative ad, dubbed Shakedown 2 Get Down, features "freestyle dance expressionist" Dufon dancing around the screen wearing a pair of Dockers Vintage Workwear Khakis. The ad is embedded in select iPhone games. When it appears in between levels of gameplay, users are prompted to shake their phone to get Dufon to dance.
more HERE

Chrch sez stop txtn 4 lent...

The Italian Church wants its followers to forswear text messaging, social networking websites and computer games in the run-up to Easter.
While many Italians traditionally give up fatty foods or, in extremis, alcohol, the appeal to go without some of the trappings of the modern world, including Facebook, iPhones and computer games, on Fridays – and on other days if possible – is unprecedented.
It appears to stem partly from Pope Benedict XVI's recent warning to the young not to substitute "virtual friendship" for real human relationships.
story is HERE

iWallflower: Emotional Networking Project

Developers of several popular Apple iPod touch and iPhone Apps, announces an 'Emotional Networking' wireless world art project. iWallFlower.com is a web site which displays in real time, drawings being made by iPod touch and iPhone users from around the world.
more HERE

iPhone Painting

Wobble Approved by Apple

Remember iBoob, the iPhone app that let you shake your iPhone to make a pair of digital boobs wobble around? Well, a group of Aussie developers have taken it to the next level, letting you add wobble to photos of real breasts. What's more, Apple actually approved the app!
more HERE
Wobble iTunes link HERE

iFart making 10k a day

iFart has hit the top paid app spot and has received over 13,000 purchases on December 22nd alone.
more HERE

The $49 iPhones are HERE...

Yep, it's a refurb but AT&T is knocking off an extra $50 to get the prices of these phones down to $49 and $149 through the 31st.
First, refurbs were dropped to just $99 and $199 for 8GB and 16GB iPhones, respectively. And now the voice of Vito Corleone is ringing in our heads, “Make them an offer they can’t refuse…”
From now until December 31, 2008, AT&T is taking an additional $50 off the refurbished iPhones. They must have a ton of refurbs in stock from the mad exchanges and returns from earlier this year. Oh, and one more thing to sweeten the deal (as if it wasn’t cavity-inducing enough): 2-day priority shipping is also free, an unusual offer during the holiday season. Is there really any excuse not to pick one of these up if you had been holding off on it? Hell, just go ahead and add a family line you don’t need!
HERE is the AT&T link.

Walmart Sells iPhone?

Leaked Walmart Memo Details iPhone Pilot Launch Program

Remember all those people who camped out and waited on line at Apple stores to be among the first to snag an iPhone?
Well, that novelty and feeling of smug superiority might soon wear off if the rumors are true that Apple Inc. may sell its sleek smart phone at Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
As you can see in the memo above, although it’s a bit blurry, there is no mention of a $99 iPhone anywhere. The rumor that quickly erupted into a snowball of inaccuracy, even gaining traction in mainstream media, has simply been wrong.
more HERE

iPhone WebCam

Xgoes.mobi is the world’s first porn webcam site optimized to work exclusively with the iPhone and iPod Touch.
more HERE

Brian Eno Does iPhone

Brian Eno, the father of ambient music and one of the greatest musical minds of our time, has teamed with musician/programmer Peter Chilvers to create one of the coolest, most unique iPhone apps to hit the App Store yet. Called Bloom, it's "part instrument, part composition and part artwork."
more HERE