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I despise cases. I like my gadgets thin. After all, the Apple engineers worked their tails off trying to make the iPhone as slim as possible. The first thing many of us do is slap on a case that makes the iPhone as thick as an old Palm phone; can’t you hear the silent cry from engineering? I set out to find options on thin cases that I don’t hate, and after months of trying, I’ve got three options to keep your iPhone feeling, well, like an iPhone.

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Here I am minding my own business and checking a train schedule when I see this oddly shaped iSomething.  Is it just a rendering or does it in fact purport what the new yet unmentioned iPod touch Nano will look like?  You be the judge.

What we can tell from the image:

• Size-wise it looks to be a cross of the current iPod touch and the iPod Nano.  A little wider screen, not quite as tall.
• The internet looks pretty good on it, or at least, the MTA mobile website.
• We could see this being somewhat interesting: very portable, very nice and wide screen.
• Still just one button, if it aint broke why fix it?

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Finally, I can stop being envious of Nano owners.  I run with my iPod touch and wish I could track my progress or embarrassing lack thereof.  Seems Nike has heard my grunts of frustration and will be releasing a version of their popular Nike+ system for the iPhone/touch.  Better than that, they’ve made some improvements.

According to a report from StuffTV, the new version will take advantage of the iPhone/touch connectivity and upload your training logs on the fly, so you don’t have to plug in.  Nice.  Nike is also bringing out there Coach program, helping you train for that that big run.

Still no heart rate tracking/display feature but you can add notes and there is all that compatibility with gym equipment…  It is something.

Read [StuffTV]

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I have gotten the feeling lately, that Apple is going to get into the GPS business in a very real way.  I’ve not gotten confirmation from Apple on this, but the circumstantial proof is there.  There are four main reasons I believe this to be the case.

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Apple brought its store down this morning and relaunched with a “major upgrade” to Aperture, its popular photo editing and management software.  Apple crammed over 100 new features into this release.  From its streamlined UI to a new image processing engine, Apple believes it has the very best.  To show it off, the release quote image professionals touting the new version and how important it is to their work.

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How will Apply play the first 3rd party applications they certify for iPhone/touch?  Apple has been working with choice 3rd party developers with Lotus being the latest to come out of the spin cycle of rumors.  The question is quickly becoming, “which will Apple announce first?”

Why does it matter who is first?  The first 3rd party app will tell us where Apple wants to go with this phone and quite possible future iterations.  Will it be a suit-and-tie set application like Lotus Notes or something luxury-practical like real-deal GPS? 

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Google will announce an update to its popular unified homepage for the Safari browsers of iPhone/touch devices.  The current design, just six weeks old will be usurped by a new version that improves the experience.  The original brought together many of Google’s handy services like search, Gmail, RSS, and others onto one screen for simplified navigation.

The design, dubbed Grand Prix internally at Google, in it’s new version will bring more speed and customization.  Speedier Gmail means

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