New iPhone App: iStylist Makeover

Dollar iPhone App Puts Salon in Your Pocket

iStylist Makeover lets you try on over a hundred a different female and male hairstyles, including tons of top celebrities. It's only a dollar, a lot of fun, and can really give you some ideas to take with you to the hair salon.

Check it out at http://istylist.stylerdesign.com

Apple Releases 3G iPhone

By Edmund Dante Hamilton,

Editor and Publisher MyT4W Newspaper

Steve Jobs unveiled the latest version of iPhone at Apple World Wide Developer's Conference today.

6 Million Units and Counting

According to Apple six million units have been sold. With lower prices and faster 3G service Apple should do well in the next 12 months even if they did not reach 10 million in sales during the first year of iPhone mania.

Apple iPhone offers advances in enterprise support, the software developer's kit (SDK) and new features for consumers.

Enterprise Support Features:

• Support for Microsoft Exchange servers was most demanded among companies so this is included
  
• Push Email, Contacts and Calendar
• Auto-Discovery
• Global Address Lookup
• Remote Wipe

Developer's Applications
Apple software developers announced and demonstrated several applications on stage to the crowd including:

• Super Monkey Ball from Sega with over 100 levels - $9.99
• eBay Auctions with photo viewer
• Loopt - a friend finder (easier to stalk your buddies this way)
• TypePad - blogging tool that incorporates iPhone photo uploads
• Associate Press' Mobile News Network - enables you to become a citizen journalist using iPhone
• Enigmo and Cro-Mag Rally - two games from Pangea Software at $9.99 each
• Band by Cow Music - make and record music with instruments using iPhone
• At Bat by MLB.com - live scoring with all the details and video
• Modality - medical application for students
• Medical Imagery App from MIMvista
• Digital Legends - 3D fantasy game coming in September

Most of these will be available from the iPhone Applications Store on Apple.com at launch. Some are free others are under 10 dollars, but prices may vary.

Background Push Notification Service Coming
Apple has figured out a way to give iPhone users background notices without sacrificing battery power. Badges, sounds, custom text messages can be received once the application quits. But this is not happening until September.

New iPhone 2.0 Software Features
A free upgrade to current iPhone users and only 10 dollars for iPod Touch owners. Available in July. Lots of new stuff too many to mention but a few are support for Cyrillic and Asian languages, bulk delete emails and saving photos from emails to your gallery.

Developer Revenue Sharing
Apple has a program for iPhone application developers giving 70 percent of revenues to them without any hosting or credit card fees for providing goodies to the App Store.

MobileMe
.Mac service is now MobileMe and subscribers will get an automatic upgrade. Cost 99 dollars a year.

Apple has dropped the price on iPhone. More people will likely purchase a two-year contract even if gas is over four bucks a gallon.

High Income Digital Savvy Women

By Edmund Dante Hamilton,
Editor & Publisher MyT4W Newspaper

Affluent, Digital Savvy women are five percent of the American population according to a recent survey released by Scarborough Research. Findings from the research report indicate that:

• 5% of all women nationally with incomes of $150k+ and between the ages of 25 and 54 are Digital Savvy

More information here (full report in PDF).

Apple iPod Touch Upgraded

By Edmund Dantes Hamilton

Editor & Publisher, MyIWN

iPod Touch, the Wi-Fi enabled music player from Apple, has been upgraded with a host of new features. Beginning today you can customize the home screen and watch iTunes movie rentals. The new software upgrade costs 20 dollars. 

New iPod Touch Features:

• Mail
• Maps
• Weather
• Stocks 
• Notes

Mail can now be configured using popular web-based email accounts such as Hotmail, Yahoo, Google's Gmail. POP and IMAP email are also supported. View mail in rich HTML displaying text and graphics attached to the email.

Maps now can find your location based on where your Wi-Fi connection originates from. You can get hybrid views combining satellite and map graphics.

Use the notes feature to jot down things your need to remember, or better yet write the first iPod Touch authored book using this feature. Also receive real-time stock and weather information.

Apple Introduces MacBook Air: World's Thinnest Notebook

By Edmund Dantes Hamilton

Editor & Publisher, MyIWN

Apple introduced a brand new, smaller laptop called MacBook Air, designed to compete with Sony TZ series notebooks. Price wise, the newer model sits between both MacBook and MacBook Pro series laptops.

MacBook Air Specs:

• Thinner than thinnest part of Sony
• Green Friendly with packaging that is 56% less than MacBook; aluminum casing good for recycling
• Fits inside typical office memorandum clasp envelope
• 0.16" - 0.76"
• Looks like the size of a plate when closed
• 1.8" hard drive
• 80 GB hard disk standard
• 1.6 GHz Standard, 1.8 GHz Option
• Intel Core 2 Duo
• 802.11n + Bluetooth 2.1/EDR
• 45 Watt MagSafe
• 1 USB 2.0 port
• Micro DVI
• Headphone Audio Out
• Multi-touch gestures on trackpad
• iPhone like screen features: pinch-zoom, and more
• 5 hours battery life
• 2 GB Memory standard
• 13.3 inch widescreen
• LED backlight
• Built-in iSight
• Full size keyboard
• USB powered SuperDrive $99
• Costs: $1,799.00
• Pre-orders today, ships in two weeks

Source: Apple MacWorld 2008 and MacRumorsLive.com