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The new iPhone’s GPS service has brought forth a variety of location-based apps in available in the App Store. One of the most natural fits for this type of service is the ability to locate nearby places of interest, such as restaurants. Today, we’ll tell you about two very useful apps for finding good eats, and both are available now in the App Store as free downloads. We’ll also tell you about another free app, this one’s web-based, that condiments compliments the native apps. Each is unique in its own way, offering a strength not found in the others. We find that having all three available on our iPhone 3G is better than any one of them, until of course, someone can create the killer app that combines the best of all three into a single iPhone app.
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Happy Friday, Touchtip readers! Today we’d like to share with you some of the best tips that our readers have sent in over the past week. We’ve got some terrific reader tips this week which include how to get free SMS messages on your iPhone, and how to get free push syncing of email, calendar, and contacts without shelling out the extra cash for a MobileMe subscription. You’ll also learn the secret of mastering the iPhone keyboard (hint: it’s easier than you think!).

Read on to learn about these tips, and more. And if you have your own tip you’d like to share, please send it to us and we’ll post in our next Friday Roundup. Now, on to the tips.
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In case you missed our first post on Geleskins, we felt that this is worth another mention, especially since they have expanded their catalog to include skins for iPhone 3G. Additionally, Gelaskins now offers an iPhone optimized web site making it even easier for you to shop for a skin from mobile Safari. Gelaskins are pure eye candy and absolutely dripping with visual lusciousness. These vinyl protective skins for iPhone and iPod touch are beautiful to look at while providing an ultra thin, functional and protective coating over your mobile device preventing scratches and dings.

One of the great things about Gelaskins is that they come with a complimentary, downloadable wallpaper image that matches your Gelaskin. These wallpapers really tie in your touch screen to the rest of the skin of the skin to provide a seamless theme for your device, front and back. At $14.95 US, these Gelaskins are a little pricier than some competitors we’ve seen, but the aesthetic appeal is worth every penny more. Gelaskins are available for the original iPhone and the entire line of iPod touches.

PageOnce launched as a web site earlier this year with a single focus, to simplify your online activity by aggregating your accounts into a single, secure view. We gave it test drive and liked it, but they were lacking a mobile interface so we didn’t get to tell you about it here on Touchtp.com. Today, we can gladly tell you that PageOnce has a free, native app waiting for you in the App Store and this is one gem of a download that you won’t want to miss.

The PageOnce app brings account aggregation to the iPhone and iPod touch, and the productivity gains you’ll experience will be like nirvana. PageOnce gives you a single page with all of your online accounts for banking, credit cards, email, MobileMe, social networks, bill payments, movie rentals, airlines, and on, and on, and on. You’ll have access to almost every online account you own with just a single tap. The days of signing into each account separately have come to and end, and that is wonderful news to our weary, tapped-out fingers.
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We already told you about Instapaper, the magnificent bookmarking web app that you can use from your desktop browser or on your iPhone or iPod touch. As you browse the web and find content you don’t have time to read, but want to save it for reading later, you simply tap a bookmarklet to send it to your Instapaper account where it will be saved for easy access later. You can access all your saved items from any web browser making it easy to flag web pages from your desktop, then read them later when you’re on the go.
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One of the many new features introduced in the iPhone 2.0 update is the ability for the iPhone’s calendar app to recognize multiple calendars you have in iCal or Google calendar. If you sync your calendar to your iPhone through USB, you may notice a bug where the colors displayed in the iPhone calendar don’t match up with the colors in iCal. Although this appears to be a bug that Apple will have to fix, there are a few homemade workaround solutions you can try if you’re as meticulous about your colors matching as we are.
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Earlier this week, iPhone fanboys rejoiced after securing their place in history with an official fanboy entry in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Perhaps “iBrick” will be the next addition to the dictionary after today’s debacle at the Apple data centers which turned 6 million iPhones into useless, shiny bricks.

Yes, today was supposed to be Steve Jobs’ magnum opus for the iPhone, heralding the release of the iPhone 3G and its revolutionary new mobile operating system, iPhone 2.0. But alas, Gabriel’s trumpet began to play Taps for Apple as reports flooded into Cupertino about new iPhones getting thrown into a loop during the activation process turning them into iBricks.
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The iPhone 3G will be finally be available Friday morning when the sun shines on New Zealand at 8 o’clock in the morning. Then following the terminator across the globe, Apple Stores will open their doors at 8 am in their respective time zones. New iPhones and iPod touches will be pre-loaded with the App Store. However, if you already have an iPhone or iPod touch, you can get the iPhone 2.0 software update today and start using native apps without jailbreaking your device! This firmware update is free for iPhones, and $9.99 for iPod touch.

The App Store is where you will find native apps to download to your device. The App Store officially launched this morning with over 552 applications available, of which 135 of them are free. The remaining pay for apps range from 99 cents to $69.99. The apps fall into categories like games, business, sports, education, music, productivity, travel, social networking, news, and many more. Apple will be adding apps to the App Store almost daily. Read on to find out how to get access to the App Store and start downloading apps today.
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