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This program’s called Snaptell.  You take a picture of an item on your iPhone, it finds a book/cd/dvd/game with cover art that looks similar.  Pretty quickly, too.  Gives you useful information like Barnes & Noble, Wiki, Google, Yahoo.

http://lifehacker.com/5094700/snaptell-explorer-instantly-looks-up-any-product-via-photograph

Fun fun…

An interesting article posted by androidguys.com relating to Flash, Andoid and the iPhone.

http://androidguys.com/?p=2824

“Alongside Adobe’s Kevin Lynch, Andy showed Flash running within a web browser, signaling to the world that Android is ready to handle the technology.”

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“Speaking of, here’s what Wired has to say today.  In an article called “Why Apple Will Never Permit Adobe Flash on the iPhone“, Brian X. Chen posits that Flash is so rich and full featured that it could ultimately create apps that take run through the internet, in turn, take away from Apple’s bread and butter, the App Store.”

 

Google is releasing a voice-based search for iPhone.  Supposed to be released soon.  Apparently they’re not releasing it for Android, yet.  Weird…

“What’s interesting is that Google has launched the voice based search for the iPhone rather than the G1. Google could well keep the new technology for itself that could shoot up the sales of the G1 exponentially. But Google has decided to go with the iPhone first. Google executives admitted that this could result in more ad revenues especially from the local businesses for the location-based services.”

Go read the full article at: http://androidguys.com/?p=2793

As the title expresses, this post is being posted from my new toy, my awesome iPhone. The posting of this thus perfects my desire to be more mobile while still being able to take you with me… Cheers!
Expect to see more frequent posts by me in locations other than my home.
In similar news I signed up to receive info on E3-09 and plan to go to that next June.