Another great story on Pocket-lint today about a photographer on Flickr called Joey_Joey_Joey who felt like it might be a good idea to try to combine his twin passions of photography and the iPhone, and find some way of customising his iPhone 4 with a special skin to make it look like a Leica M9 Rangefinder camera. So how did he (or she!) manage to do it? Check out part of  JJJ's explanation on his Flickr page: "Originally, I thought all I would have to do was just simply scale the camera to the phone's dimensions but I soon found out that the phone was actually wider than the ... Read More

WTSP News reports today the cautionary tale of a woman from Philadelphia who has just had to have surgery to remove the tendons on her thumb because she was using her iPhone too much! Apparently she was suffering from what doctors have started calling "Blackberry thumb", which, aside from having the wrong name (it should be "iPhone thumb"!), sounds like a rather nasty ailment with symptoms that include pain, inflammation, numbness and tingling. But before we all start panicking and sending off emails to Steve Jobs, it would seem that you have to be using your iPhone pretty obsessively in ... Read More

The peak summertime wedding season may be just drawing to a close, but for all those inspired by any weddings they’ve been to this year to start planning for their own big event next summer, Go Forth Apps has just released a free Lite version of its Color My Wedding App, which enables brides-to-be to see a set of wedding photos colored with any wedding color palette imaginable. Millions of color are supported by using specially prepared photos that allow objects to be recolored instantly. Users can change colors of dresses, cakes, table settings, flowers, cupcakes, and much more, with ... Read More

HarperCollins Children's Books has just released its ABC Song app and 123: Ants Go Marching App to the App store for iPhone and iPod touch. The apps form part of HarperCollins' Curious Puppy program of online educational games. The apps are specially designed to help young children and toddlers get ready for school and preschool with interactive, fun content. The ABC Song app makes learning the alphabet into a fun game with catchy music and irresistible graphics that bring the letters to life. The 123: Ants Go Marching app takes a similar approach but with numbers instead of letters ... Read More

The Dallas News reports today on the story of a local Dallas man,Vincent Hunter, who watched horrified on his iPhone as two burglars broke into his house when he was away visiting relatives all the way over in Hartford, Connecticut. Hunter was alerted to the presence of the intruders in his house by a text sent to him via the iCam app, which was set to alert him if the motion detectors in his home picked up on any movement in the house, which was supposed to be completely empty. Hunter was then able to check the scene for himself by using the iCam app to link up with his webcams at home, ... Read More

Google has updated YouTube's mobile site in the rest of the world outside the US from Flash to HTML5. Pocket-lint reports that although the service has been available within the States since July, the rest of the world has had to wait until now. “We tried to make it so snappy and so fast, but run in any browser across platforms,” Andrey Doronichev, YouTube’s mobile product manager, told Pocket-Iint. Google says that the new YouTube HTML5 website is designed to be consistently fast and reliable across all mobile devices, including the iPod touch and iPad. The YouTube mobile ... Read More

With the recent oil spill disaster in the Gulf still fresh in everyone’s mind, 6th Mega has come up with a special update for its ecologically sound game, Puff Puff, which entails the player dealing with the many hazards caused by a catastrophically polluting oil spill such as the one in the Gulf. 6th Mega has said that it will donate a massive 30 percent of the net proceeds from the game towards ecosystem restoration. The first version of Puff Puff, which is currently available in the App Store, sees you controlling the diodon holocanthus, better known as the spiny puffer, guiding ... Read More

2K Sports has announced that NHL 2K11 is out today, August 24th, for the iPhone and iPod touch, making it the first licensed NHL game to appear on the Apple handhelds. The game features a brand new control system that has been designed from the ground up, featuring animations and graphics taken from the console version, and fully realised season, shootout and free skate modes of play. Fans can make trades and sign free agents as they take their favourite teams and players all the way to the Stanley Cup in Season Mode, as well as jumping into practice and quick game modes to polish their ... Read More