It's Apple Style

A new device called the "Apple Peel 520" and created by a Chinese company helps your iPod Touch transform to iPhone.

This is a brainchild of 22-year-old programmer who lives in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

It is kit consisting of a case that fits around the outside of Apple's iPod Touch, a popular media player and Wi-Fi-enabled pocket computer with e-mail, maps and

The Apple Peel 520 case contains a battery, dock connector and SIM card that allows voice calls. Users will also have to install special software to enable a text messaging function, and to allow the device to properly work with the iPod Touch (users will have to break into the software of the iPod in order to download the necessary applications).
other applications.

(Reuters) Teenagers are being urged to turn down the volume on their iPods after a US study found hearing problems among youngsters have risen by nearly a third in 15 years.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, compared national surveys from the early 1990s and the mid 2000s. Each included only a few thousand teens aged 12 to 19 but was designed to represent the whole country.

In the first survey, about 15 per cent of teenagers were found by trained staff to have some degree of hearing loss. Some 15 years later, that number had risen by a third, to nearly 20 per cent – or one in every five teenagers.

"That's a few kids per classroom who will have hearing problems," said researcher Dr Josef Shargorodsky of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

"Teenagers really underestimate how much noise they are exposed to. Often the individual won't notice it, but even slight hearing loss may lead to differences in language development and learning."

(ANI) Singles looking for a mate can now search for their dream partner just with the touch of a button on their iPhone or Blackberry.

A new app, called Grindr, uses GPS technology to allow anyone with a smartphone to pinpoint potential opportunities for romance as they pass by on the street.

The programme has been available for the gay community for some time, and gay icon Stephen Fry told ‘Top Gear’ very straight man Jeremy Clarkson about the relative merits when he appeared on the show.

Men around the UK turned to Grindr and downloads rocketed.

It told them how far away they were standing in feet - and perhaps even inches - from like-minded inquisitive Grindrs. Pixellated images offer a grid of potential partners, reports Sky News.

This is not astonishing to know that mobile devices will out number PC's in terms of share since high processing (now 1 GHz is on roll soon there will be 2 GHz...(motorola has announced)).

There are billion-plus phones sold per year. The number of active subscriptions, which is greater than half of the human population.The hundreds of thousands of apps for apple and android which is keeping the user hook to them.

Based on their respective numbers, the companies below represent the biggest OS vendors in both the smartphone and desktop space on earth. What's interesting is that, with the explosion of iOS devices and Android over the past year and the relative stagnation of the desktop market, mobile OS shipments are approaching that of desktop OSes. In fact, smartphones may be surpassing desktop OS shipments right now. I'm going to attempt to prove that below.

Apple's has released iOS 4.0.2 for the iPhone and 3.2.2 for the iPad, both of which close the PDF exploit used by JailbreakMe.

That good news for those who are concerned about iOS security.

Due to this update apple has closed the way to jailbreak. Anyways iPhone Dev Team may find another way to crack it.

(Associated Press) Cell phone applications such as ''iPray'' or ''iQuran'' offer a beeping reminder of requisite prayer times, while the ''Find Mecca'' and ''mosque finder'' programs help the Muslim traveler in an unfamiliar city find the nearest place to pray.

''When I saw these applications for the first time, I thought: this is amazing,'' said James Otun, who has several Islamic applications on his Apple iPhone and iPad. ''Whoever came up with this idea: God bless him or her.''

The applications aren't just for Ramadan; there are Islamic-themed programs that help users find the nearest Costco offering foods prepared according to Islamic dietary rules, learn the correct Arabic pronunciations in a daily prayer, or count how many pages of the Quran they've read that day, all on a mobile phone.

An iPhone parts supplier had sent mac rumors some photos of what are claimed to be the front LCD and bezel of the upcoming 4th generation iPod Touch. The new part clearly shows a front-sided hole that would leave room for a front-facing FaceTime camera.

While we've seen similar parts before, this part is clearly marked as an Apple part "Apple (c) 2010". This stamp is visible in the full resolution image. The part is also stamped with April 29, 2010, indicating that the build date is relatively recent. We've seen other iPod Touch parts circulating in the past. In particular, a back-side camera model reached a late prototype stage last year but was never released.

Here are some of the cool and crazy apple iPad stands.Check it out.

Element Case Joule

Joule stand will hold your iPad in landscape or portrait modes in what must be one of the most simple and elegant ways available. The Joule comes in aluminum, or anodized silver or black for $10 more.

Cost: From $129

One of the VoIP provider Vonage has just introduced a new iPhone, iPod touch and Android app that allows users to call their Facebook friends for free. Vonage Mobile for Facebook is similar to VOiP apps like Skype or Fring, but with a twist: It’s all about Facebook.

The free app does not require a Vonage subscription, but does require both parties to have the Vonage Mobile for Facebook app installed. Once installed, calls can be made over 3G or Wi-Fi.

The app is pretty simple to set up and only requires that you enter in your Facebook credentials once. Friends are displayed in different groups; those that can be called with the app have a “V” logo next to their names. If a friend is online but doesn’t have the app installed, you can chat with him or her and also send an invite to download the app.

This video shows how the app works:

According to new data from Nielsen, smartphones running Google’s Android operating system outsold those running Apple’s iOS in the first half of 2010 by a margin of 27% to 23% of the US market.

Android have advantage because its open source, free for and Mobile make to put on.As more and more Android devices launch across manufacturers and carriers, it continues to gain marketshare in the US and around the world

where as Apple, who is the only manufacturer of iOS devices and in the US, offers its device only on AT&T. So this survey might be disturbing apple too much.