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iPhone application developer Intelliborn has just released a new killer application for the iPhone called the IntelliScreen. This new application compiles weather, e-mail, SMS message, RSS feeds, news, sports and wheather widgets and displays them to your iPhone’s “Slide to Unlock Screen.“

The application allows for the display of four widgets at the same time and you can easily switch reading from one widget to another in a jiffy.

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After a two week delay, Apple has released the Apple TV “Take 2” software update.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the update at Macworld 2008, saying that he recognized that the Apple TV and iTunes movies were not doing as well as Apple would have liked. He then unveiled the software update, which boasts iTunes Rental capabilities, the ability to no longer be linked to a computer, A new interface and more.

The update was postponed two weeks at the end of January, and was finally released for download Tuesday, beating that estimate by a few days. Apparently, new Apple TVs come with the software update pre-installed.

Via [Macworld]

• Sprint: Plug into widget overload
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• Apple TV. Why?

A recent Apple patent application deals with widgets in a multimedia center and hints at Apple TV updates.

The patent describes widgets such as stocks and weather on the Apple TV, but more importantly, widgets that would be tailored to what you are watching, which in and of itself hints at the Apple TV interfacing with live television. If you were watching a baseball game for instance, live scores would pop up. For a rock concert, a widget showing the band’s next concert and an opportunity to buy tickets. A movie, and perhaps other movies with the same actors or director, and a link to rent from the iTunes Movie Store.

The patent also describes iChat on the Apple TV, which would be used for discussion of the game or movie you were watching at the time.

Via [ArsTechnica]

• Apple Releases Apple TV 2.3, couple nice new features
• Apple TV. Why?
• Sprint: Plug into widget overload

For those of you who have an iPhone that isn’t cardboard or dispenses mints, you have probably experimented with the many iPhone applications available for use. If you aren’t satisfied with the many applications available, Plusmo has more than 20,000 widgets that you can use on your iPhone. Ever stop and think “Gee, wouldn’t it be great if I could have a Peanuts comic strip in an easy to read widget that updates each and everyday? Maybe you didn’t have that exact though, but the point is now you can.

The Plusmo service supports not only the iPhone but also most other Java-enabled phones such as the Blackberry. You can create and customize your own widgets from sources like XML and RSS, so if you haven’t found the widget you are looking for after searching all 20,000 of them, you can just create your own. 

This service, to me, sounds sort of like an online equivalent of the Dashboard. All widgets are free and are already up and online for you to enjoy.

On another note, The Duggars just had their 17th child. Yes, 17. I think this family could use an iPhone.

Via [iPodNN] + [Neatorama]

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The folks over at iPhoneology took the iPhone’s file system off the device and starting looking into it closely. They found a preference file called “DefaultApplicationState.plist,“ which includes a list of the usual applications on the iPhone such as the calculator, iPod, Mail, Notes, Safari, and the others. But it also included three other “non-activated” widgets as well as two other applications.

• com.apple.unitconverter
• com.apple.widget.phonebook
• com.apple.widget.translation
• com.apple.widget.worldclock
• com.apple.mobile.radio

The applications you may remember from Dashboard are the Unit Converter, Phonebook, Translation, and World Clock, but mobile.radio is new. The features of the mobile.radio. are pretty much anybodies guess. Some are saying streaming radio a la iTunes, or a wild-throw on either Sirius or XM Satellite Radio, or an integrated FM tuner. I believe it’s for Apple’s Radio Remote that you plug into the dock connector and can listen to FM that way.

As TUAW notes, this is all speculation. As with patents, just because the files are in there doesn’t mean they will actually incorporate them into the next iPhone software version. They are also saying that a few folks are believing they’re just “holdovers from Apple’s translation of OS X to the iPhone firmware.“ Whatever the reason may be, we have to remember that more widgets and applications are most likely planned for the iPhone, so this could be a sign of things to come.

Via [TUAW]

• Apple Releases Apple TV 2.3, couple nice new features
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• Apple launches new iPhone Your Life site

At Macworld 2007, when Steve Jobs first let us see the holy grail, iPhone, he stated that the operating system it is running is Mac OS X. Most people took this to mean that it was a stripped down version of OS X, or Mac OS “Mobile.” At the All Things Digital Conference recently, we got word right from the horse’s mouth that the iPhone is running “real” OS X, not just a slimmed or stripped down version.

The speculation for what this could mean was last seen heading out of the atmosphere after it rocketed into the sky. The fact that the iPhone runs “real” OS X, makes the possibilities for development almost endless. It would mean that all widgets that are currently in your Dashboard, could theoretically also run on the iPhone. More traditionally desktop Mac-apps, could be ported easily to work flawless with the iPhone’s touch screen interface. Lets just hope that Apple will soon find a way to let third party developers “safely” release software for the iPhone.

via [TUAW]

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