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I love this.  I haven’t bought it, but its existence did lead me to dust off my copy of Myst Masterpiece Edition and get it working in Vista.  The iPhone app takes a whopping 727mb of space, and requires 1.5gb to install.  The price is $5.99.  I love this trend of classics being resurrected to the iPhone for low prices.  First Wolfenstein, now this.  Next up, Doom and Riven please.

More info

Myst in iTunes link

A free iPhone app has been released for browsing and viewing TED talks.  Get the app here.  Note, these TEDtalks are also available as free video podcasts which can be uploaded to iPhone for offline viewing.

I’m not sure if this is really 10,000 apps, or even if they’re all unique in the pic, but this is pretty impressive either way, especially in its 4674×7011 glory.  Here’s its main flickr page.

Well not really an application, but sort of.  Here’s howto:

1. navigate your iPhone’s Safari to the online lyrics site of your choosing.  lyricsmania doesn’t seem too bad.
2. zoom in on the search box
3. tap the + on Safari’s bottom and then select “Add to Home Screen”
4. title it Lyrics or something similarly appropriate

Done.. Just tap this new link on your home screen and it will load that search box where you can search on lyrics to an album/song you’re listening to.

SomaFM.com’s famous Groove Salad can be streamed right to your iPhone, wherever you go.  The nice thing I discovered about this is that you can still do anything else on the phone while it plays, except for use the browser.  I didn’t think apps were allowed to “run” in the background, but apparently SomaFM’s implementation gets around that.  Pandora has that limitation, which I’m sure it will be freed of in the future when Apple relaxes the SDK.

Steps:

1. navigate to somafm.com in your iphone’s safari
2. tap ‘WiFi/3G Streams’ (unless you’re in the sticks then select Edge)
3. press the ‘+’, tap ‘Add to Home Screen‘, trim the name to SomaFM
4. tap a station and a player will appear, press play and the stream begins
5. return to your home screen and position your new SomaFM icon
6. go enjoy a bowl of groove salad.

While you’re at it, if you’ve got some extra change, throw a few into their coffers, it looks as though they could use it.

Get it?  lol.  but it might be time to take the plunge, if you can stomach it.  here’s a roundup of links from this first week of release. (and growing) (hint: ctrl-click is your friend)

• official product overview video @ Apple.com (it’s >30min)
  
• Engadget’s review (and their 1week followup: (mainly user comments))
  
• iLounge review
• cnet.nytimes review (and many user reviews)
• some other not-so-positive review stuff (zero, one, two, three, four, five, six)
• various forums (macrumors, apple, iLounge, at&t, appleinsider.com, howardforums)
  
• some battery life test results
• real-time turn-by-turn gps navigation is not in now, but is coming?
• Time.com’s list of their top 11 apps
• a collection of iphone apps’ descriptions and videos
• Gizmodo’s big summary of some apps
• Pandora is the app i’m most excited about
• last.fm has an app too
  
• A look at ten $0.99 games
• which apps made the most money so far?
• how to create psychedelic pics with your iPhone
• seemingly decent (i)phone wallpaper site
• forum post with some wallpapers (some nsfw)   (and another)  (and a flickr set of mostly comic book type walls but some textures and such in the back)
• an app for cheaper solution to your personal ringers
• Apple store real-time (after hours) availability checker (and its raw feed which should be more up-do-date)
• check your AT&T order status (tip: use the home/contact number, and the zip code of the store you bought from)
• good-looking tool for cleaning up your itunes library: names and album art
• putting your own dvd movies on the phone (handbrake) (or alternative software #1: rip dvds) (alternative software #2: convert any video to iphone friendly format)
• some kid plays Metallica’s One on a guitar app for the iphone
• stairway
• a soldier’s video review (??) (and after 48 hours)
• various other video reviews (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen)
• video reviews of apps (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven)
• video of a gps roadtest
• david lynch’s hilarious take on watching films on iPhone
• and of course: will it blend?

Someone over at Fortune magazine is speculating just that. Which would be downright ridiculous.. I would probably have to get one. If these prognostications prove true I would hate to be one of those early adopters who have one already.

Link to original article (via MacRumors)

edit: and a counterpoint @ NYT

I love this video, and the whole series really. Polite grandpa type, but there’s something sinister about him. “Don’t breath this.” No kiddin!