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The iReflector, originally uploaded by ms.flux.

While I love my iPad, it is pretty much USELESS in the sun. This is pretty much the only way I could see anything (and as you can maybe tell from the lighting, it was cloudy).

The iPad simulator in the SDK doesn’t come with a browser, so I whipped one up really quickly in xcode so I could see what a site would look like, in this case Facebook. Also a quick little look at what else comes stock with the simulator (which isn’t much).

Can’t wait to get my hands on a real iPad. 3g or not to 3g? That, my friends, is the question.

As you may or may not know, I love my iPhone (3gs), it’s my 5th iPhone and after having used BlackBerrys, WindowsMobile, Palm, and Android, I still think the iPhone OS is the best, and it doesn’t hurt that the hardware is super seXXXy. Thing is, to keep it looking sweet, you need a case. I’ve gone through many many cases, my favorite being the miniot iwood, even though it’s the most expensive and most fragile case out of all of them (80 euros, about $120USD), not only because it is so freakishly beautiful, but also because it doesn’t have a big fat lip keeping you from using the full face of the touchscreen, which is the biggest problem with the incase slider cases, which are otherwise beautiful, well-made, and affordable but are unusable because of the gross lip.

Enter Incase’s new perforated case, looks super light and without a big fat poky lip. All over it.

Perforated Snap Case for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G : Incase Product.

I am kind of a big fan of MacHeist.com who puts together (yearly) a pretty well-curated bundle of awesome Mac apps (sorry windozers) from smaller developers for super-cheap. Right now, they have a few sweet programs for FREE over at their site, including WriteRoom (a really cool word processor that hides everything else on your screen, freeing you from distraction), ShoveBox (a sweet note/asset saving application that acts like a scrapbook/to-do list), as well as Twitteriffic and a couple of other cool apps. The more people sign up, the more free stuff gets unlocked, so do it.

MacHeist nanoBundle.

Augmented reality Is finally here in the form of the Yelp iPhone app. You need the iPhone 3gs to use it and the latest version of the app (new on the app store today) and voilà, you can walk around with a live view of… well… life (but with overlays of nearby bars and restaurants). Suck it, blackberry!