Everyone’s Private Driver / UberCab. iphone app that dispatches towncars and you can see where your cab is on the map. then you pay via credit card through the app. only in san francicsco at the moment.

Slablet. iPad html layouts. Uses iScroll library for scrolling overflows.

Apple copying apps and then patenting the idea. that’s pretty bad.

YouTube – Street Slide: Browsing Street Level Imagery – Presentation from SIGGRAPH this year for upcoming Bing Map streetview features. The demo is really cool (and it ends with an iPhone demo).

Rhythm Trainer. iPhone App for studio musicians or people trying to learn music. Done by Form & Method’s David Carney and Lukas Dryja.

Creative Review – StreetMuseum iPhone app. see historical photos over the original location in London.

Ajaxian » SproutCore @ JSConf: SeedJS, great features, amazing demos. sproutcore demoed some cool features for ipad/iphone multitouch.

Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but he can’t get his iPhone cartoon app past Apple’s satire police » Nieman Journalism Lab. that’s brutal.

Free Ringtones for mobile and iPhone – Audiko. pretty much any ringtone you might want for your iphone. via wes.

Introduction to Square. great intro video showing off new payment app for iphone.

Mobile Roadie – iPhone Apps for bands, artists, celebrities, movies, athletes, authors, comedians. nice looking site. it’s an iphone app generator.

ProSwitcher – WebOS-like backgrounding on the iPhone. it’s pretty crazy some of the features people cook up on jailbroken iphones.

water damaged iphone

The other day I accidentally put my iphone in the washing machine. I was stripping my bed sheets & duvet cover and my phone happened to get caught in the mix. When I went looking for my phone about 10 minutes later I realized my stupidity and then spent quite some time fishing it out of the washer.

Oddly enough, the phone was on when I put it in the wash and it was still on when I took it out. After shaking it for a bit I could see the water behind the glass screen and soap bubbles starting to dry. I knew trying to dry it out would be pointless.

Luckily, I made an appointment at the Apple Store (which is 5 minutes from my apartment), walked over, skipped the line for the Genius Bar, and walked out of the store with a replacement in about 10 minutes for $250. I also backed up my phone the day before so I had a perfect replica of my old phone within an hour of pulling it out of the wash.

iVictrola, Walnut – Design Within Reach “Amplification is entirely acoustic – no electricity or batteries required.” now that’s pretty cool.

Square. credit card processing for all on the iphone. pretty cool idea. you could literally have everyone on your sales staff with an ipod touch.

Mobile to Mobile Live Sharing: Knocking. iphone app that lets you share whatever your camera is viewing with someone. pretty cool idea. hopefully it’s well executed.

Virtual iPhone Phrasebook Brings Us Closer to the ‘Babel Fish’ | Wired.com. pretty funny video of the guy using the app in Paris.

Google to Buy AdMob for $750 Million – NYTimes.com. kinda surprised by this since google had a decent competing ad toolset. i wonder how much revenue/traffic admob actually had?

Announcing iPhone Wax: Native UIKit iPhone Apps Written In Lua. with some basic examples. there’s one app in the appstore using it. wonder if apple will crack down on it though.

Zipcar : iPhone app. it’s here. unlock your car from your iphone. the car search map overlay is well done too.