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The life evolution of iPod touch jumps the track and produces Chumby, the platypus of web-enabled touch devices. Like a forbidden mashup, the unholy communion of the iPod touch and the popular bean-filled footbag has produced a quirky new breed of web-enabled touch devices that make you say WTF as you fall hopelessly in love with its cuddly charm. Chumby is about the size of a cup of coffee and makes a perfect bed mate for your night stand, or even a desk pal at work; always within sight and just a touch away. Chumby’s squishy, Italian leather body features a color touch screen, audio, and built-in Wi-fi all running on a Linux-based operating system with Adobe Flash. Chumby comes loaded with widgets that deliver Flickr photos, weather, stocks, sports scores, news, internet radio, video, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, email, and on and on and on. Heck, you can even play games with Chumby, and not just hacky sack, either. Find out more about Chumby after the jump.
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It’s Friday again and time to share the best iPhone tips and iPod touch tips submitted by you, the readers of Touchtip.

Today, we’ll learn how users yearning for 3rd party apps don’t have to wait for the App Store in June. You can Jailbreak or unlock your iPhone or iPod touch in 45 seconds, and it works on any firmware version. We also hear about one resourceful way to take notes on your device using only Safari and a local wiki application (no hacks required). And another reader suggests a clever way to flag phone calls from telemarketers so you can ignore the call. Be sure to read all these tips and more after the jump.
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Weather forecasts can be a fairly mundane affair, unless of course, the weather person is a Maxim girl. Maxim’s Hometown Hotties delivers a banquet of babes alongside weather conditions making this iPhone-optimized web site a worthy replacement for the native Weather.app. Maxim provides a real humanitarian service here, especially for the young male residents of Honeyville, Utah, where it’s currently 1 freakin’ degrees outside and all they have to warm them up is a Maxim girl (pictured here). And if that’s not enough to bring a smile to their faces, maybe Maxim’s Joke-O-Matic will do the trick.
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