iTwitter is a fast, flexible, rich featured twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch. It has a lot of cool features that you see in other Twitter apps, but rarely together.

UNIQUE FEATURES FROM iTwitter
- Badges to show number of unread tweets
- Landscape mode supported everywhere in iTwitter
- Landscape inline browser
- Address Book
- Landscape launch to compose
- Customizable user home screen(Big deal for business twitter account)
- Group feature
- Cached tweets for faster loading
- Inplace profile viewer

Other iTwitter FEATURES
- Handle multiple twitter accounts
- View your twitter timeline, replies, and direct messages
- Manage your favorite tweets
- Browse your following and followers
- Compose new tweets,
- Fast Retweet
- Reply directly to tweets and send direct messages
- Follow and un-follow people
- Inline TwitPic image viewer
- Upload pictures to TwitPic
- Unparalleled scrolling performance
- Twitlonger supported
- Uses secure connection (https)
- Custom searches
- Nearby searching
- Save your favorite searches
- landscape keyboard
- Conversational Threaded tweets

Poised to cause severe cases of ADD and OCD, iTwitter will Push updates to your phone as they happen. For Twitter addicts like me, it can be a blessing and a burden. It’s a fairly nice upgrade for users that are using TwitterFon, and the interface is a step up as well. The only catch is that to receive Push updates, those users must also be using iTwitter. I presume that they did that because it is new and they wanted to get it out there, and perhaps a later update will Push updates from anyone on any client.

I haven’t really found any client I like as much as I do TwitterFon, even popular ones like TweetDeck I just can’t get into (especially the Desktop version). This one seems pretty good so far, but the update timing is a little slow compared to the other products. With 3G connectivity a bane on the battery life, we gotta make the most of our activity time, and that can’t be sitting and waiting for updates. Hopefully they will improve on that in the future.

Check it out today iTwitter on AppStore

The new 3.0 Firmware introduced a lot of new features that the community has been demanding since the iPhone first went on sale.

You can see most of the new features here:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/

The one thing that stuck out to me as ‘missing’ when I was looking through the phone was the Tethering functionality. Tethering lets you use an external device such as a MacBook to use your phones data connection to access the internet. Previously, that page did not say AT&T was not supporting tethering, and you cannot find this option anywhere on the iPhone right now. Of course, with a jailbroken iPhone, you can access anything. That voids warranty though, so we don’t want to do that. But, there is a way to enable iPhone Tethering without jailbreaking the phone!

**Disclaimer: It is against AT&T TOS to use data tethering, so use at your own risk!**

On a Mac:

First, you need to have iTunes 8.2, an iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS, and 10.5.x Leopard Operating System for iPhone Tethering to work.

1. Download the AT&T carrier settings file (thanks Gizmodo)
2. Connect your iPhone to your Mac via dock or USB cable
3. Copy the following text: defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE
4. Open the Terminal app, and paste the text you just copied in Step 3
5. Sync your iPhone in iTunes, when it says Ok to Disconnect, hold the Option key and click Restore in iTunes
6. It will ask what file to restore. Select the ATT_US.ipcc file you downloaded in Step 1 and click Restore

Now you can go into your Settings on the iPhone and see that Internet Tethering is a new option!

If you are using Windows, the steps are slightly different. You can view the steps over at krillr.com.

Be careful! AT&T does not want people using iPhone Internet Tethering right now because they do not have a data plan for that, so if you go online don’t transfer a lot of data and garner attention.

After trying to get Windows 7 to install, XP Pro to install, and after that Ubuntu (even Ubuntu failed) on an older Windows laptop, I gave up. Each one had a different bitchy reason as to why it would refuse to install. After a few hours of trying every trick in the book I basically said f it. I had really hoped Windows 7 would have installed, because I think its a GREAT effort from Microsoft, best they’ve done since XP dropped over 8 years ago. Cest la vie.

I guess my Mac-hating was pretty justified over the years, but now theres no reason to not consider one from Apple. The software compatibility / availability is pretty on par now, and Leopard OSX 10.5+ REALLY flies compared to their older versions. I went with the white 2.0 ghz core duo and added 4 GB of ram into it. I wasn’t concerned really about a 13″ screen (its pretty big and viewable), at home I hook it into my 52″ LCD if I need to see more.

Being 64 bit, Leopard can handle every bit of that RAM too. 32 bit OS like XP and Vista cannot use more than 3GB of ram, which was always a point of stupidity to me. Why would software have such a limitation? Now I can run what I want without worrying that I am going to run out of memory. It has BootCamp standard, which means I could install XP/Vista if I chose to for dual boot purposes. Like if I needed to use something in Windows.

Honestly? I haven’t even reached for an install disc, and I don’t think I am going to. I am even considering getting a 24″ iMac this year to replace my aging desktop.

Pete and I have a feeling Microsoft will be on the way out in the next 5 or 10 years. It takes forever to explain, but using another OS for an hour like OSX or Ubuntu and its clearer to see why; it all just works.

Thankfully, there is a solution. The good folks at Ten One Design came up with a stylus unique for the iPhone / iPod Touch glass surface- a felt tipped stylus. Not only can this be used to make you a more efficient typer, but it can double as a drawing tool as well for drawing or sketching applications. Games that require sliding (such as Tetris, or Aurora Feint) can be better fit with the stylus as well, saving the screen from oil and smudges from dirty fingers.

http://www.tenonedesign.com/stylus.php