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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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Tax day has finally come to pass and Friday is now upon us. That means we deliver another batch of glorious iPhone tips submitted by you, the totally awesome readers of Touchtip. This week we have some fantastic tips you won’t want to miss. Got an iPod touch you want to turn into and iPhone? We got that (no, seriously). Are you a couch potato looking for a good TV guide that you can read on your iPhone without getting off the Lazyboy? We got that, too. We also have a few clever ways to use your iPhone camera, a creative method to sync notes from your device to your Mac, and how to access iPhone-only web sites from your desktop. And finally, coverflow enthusiasts learn how to find missing album art for your music collection. So don’t wait, read on and impart some iPhone wisdom upon yourselves. Or, if you have a handy tip you think we’d like, please share it with Touchtip. Now, on to the tips.
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Sure, we know that web portals are soooooo nineteen ninety-eight, but we also know that the iPhone age is breathing new life into these destination sites, especially when they are optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch. Take myijump.com for example. At first glance this looks like another iPhone portal site offering a convenient starting point for web surfing from mobile Safari. However, a deeper dive into myijump reveals a virtual cornucopia of web sites and web apps that are all optimized for the iPhone or iPod touch. The web apps are all categorized under tap-formatted buttons designed for the touch interface. With games, entertainment, news, sports, social networking, productivity, free iTunes music, and more, you will find something for everyone here making myijump.com worthy of a web clip on your device.
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In today’s news roundup, we look at an interesting Apple patent that seems to show a new, smaller iPhone in the form of a clamshell design. Take a look at the sketches in the patent and decide for yourself. Is this the iPhone nano, or something else? We also hear strong indications from Adobe about a new version of Flash specifically created for the iPhone and iPod touch. There’s also talk of another huge deal between Apple and the big music companies which would give customers unlimited access to the entire iTunes library for a subscription fee. And finally, Gartner reverses its stance and tells enterprise IT that the iPhone 2.0 is enterprise-ready for the big company mobile work force. Read on to get all the details on this story and more.
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Happy Friday! We head into the weekend with a new roundup of iPhone tips and iPod touch tricks submitted by you, the most dedicated readers of Touchip. Don’t forget to share your own tip with us, or post them directly to our iPhone and iPod touch forums.

We have some real gems this week that the iPhone community won’t want to miss, like how to save web pages for offline viewing, or a simple way to read PDF documents. We also learn how to transfer music from the iPod or iPhone to iTunes on the computer. And we find out how to create some super handy shortcuts for common tasks right on your home screen using Springlets. Read on to learn more about these tips and more.

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We just discovered SonicLiving, an incredibly slick a web site that blends social networking with your local music scene. It’s a breeze to set up and a no-brainer to use. Within minutes of signing up you will find local concerts you won’t want to miss, and be able to hook up with other people who share your music taste. If you like going to concerts, you’ll want to give SonicLiving a try. And now that it offers an interface optimized for iPhone and iPod touch, there’s no reason you shouldn’t try out the free service. We really can’t recommend it enough.
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TGIF, and you know what that means… Touchip’s Friday Roundup of user-submitted tips for iPhones and iPod touches!

We hope you enjoy these as much as we do. And don’t forget to share your own tip with us, or post them directly to our iPhone and iPod touch forums.

This week, you wrote in to share some very useful typing shortcuts using the virtual keyboard. You taught us new ways of extending our battery life, how to make the external speaker louder, and how to download and read PDF files. We also really appreciated that tip for restoring music from our iPods back into iTunes after a computer crash wipes out our iTunes library. Here are this weeks tips submitted by you…
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