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UK software company, the "Very Cool Software Company", sadly missed a trick when naming its forthcoming iPhone version of the Stylophone. The application is called the "Dubreq iStylophone", but it should clearly be named the Style-i-Phone.

It will, of course, be touch controlled, obviating the rather satisfying need to press a stylus onto the metal contacts. The application, to be released on December 1st, appears here on a first-gen, speaker-less iPod Touch. This is great news for anyone who remembers… Read More

This is one of the odder Apple-related things we have seen on the eve of the new MacBooks. It's a netbook which uses the iPhone as both its touchpad and (possibly) its brain. First, it looks fake. The product site (Active Innovation Management) is so tied up in corporate crap-speak that it has to be a parody. The company behind this mock-up – which is "coming soon" – seems to be book about the future. Still, the idea, while interesting, is pretty pointless. You drop the iPhone into the computer and it is used as a multi touch… Read More

Flickr has launched a new iPhone-optimized version of its site, and it looks fantastic. As you can see in the screenshots, the most used options run along the top of the page and, although there doesn't appear to be any AJAX-y cacheing going on, the individual pages load at a fair clip.

You can do anything of the viewing you can do on the normal Flickr, although the bite-sized version doesn't offer any editing of pictures -- the Organizr, for instance, isn't there.

But then, it shouldn't be. It would have meant a… Read More