Way back in early 2007 the iPhone was announced. We were ecstatic. Finally, a mobile phone that wasn’t mediocre. Oh, we’ve had ‘em all: freebee LGs, tiny Nokias, slick Razrs, clumsy Qs and non-qwerty Blackberries (we still don’t get that one). The good, the bad and the ugly. And if anybody was going to do

Months ago, we caught wind of a rumor that ScanLife was going to create an iPhone app to enable bar code scanning using the iPhone camera. Sure, bar codes are nothing new, but we’re not talking about grocery bar codes here. ScanLife bar codes are more like digital hieroglyphics that are tagged on real-world items

The iPhone is great for storing your music and video files, but it doesn’t it allow you to store other types of files so that you can use it for data portability or back up. Curiously, this is one of those obvious features that you wonder why Apple does not include in the iPhone right

The new iPhone’s GPS service has brought forth a variety of location-based apps in available in the App Store. One of the most natural fits for this type of service is the ability to locate nearby places of interest, such as restaurants. Today, we’ll tell you about two very useful apps for finding good eats,

Happy Friday, Touchtip readers! Today we’d like to share with you some of the best tips that our readers have sent in over the past week. We’ve got some terrific reader tips this week which include how to get free SMS messages on your iPhone, and how to get free push syncing of email, calendar,

In case you missed our first post on Geleskins, we felt that this is worth another mention, especially since they have expanded their catalog to include skins for iPhone 3G. Additionally, Gelaskins now offers an iPhone optimized web site making it even easier for you to shop for a skin from mobile Safari. Gelaskins are

PageOnce launched as a web site earlier this year with a single focus, to simplify your online activity by aggregating your accounts into a single, secure view. We gave it test drive and liked it, but they were lacking a mobile interface so we didn’t get to tell you about it here on Touchtp.com. Today,

We already told you about Instapaper, the magnificent bookmarking web app that you can use from your desktop browser or on your iPhone or iPod touch. As you browse the web and find content you don’t have time to read, but want to save it for reading later, you simply tap a bookmarklet to send