iPod Touch

Kodak today announced the new KODAK Pic Flick app that lets iPhone and iPod touch users print and share photos directly to Kodak ESP 5250 printers and W1020 wireless digital frames.

"At Kodak, we believe pictures are meant to be shared and are committed to helping people do more with their pictures by providing solutions to make, manage and move images easily and effortlessly," continues Brody. "With the KODAK Pic Flick App, we are helping consumers to print and share moments in the time it takes to make a simple phone call."

The KODAK Pic Flick App is free and is available now on the App Store. To find out more information, visit www.kodak.com/go/picflick.

The holiday season will be here before you know it, and along with the season, comes travel. Great for long flights, the new Kensington Travel Battery Pack and Charger for iPhone and iPod touch, gives you a big boost of power with no charging cables to pack. Everything you need to charge and power your iPhone or touch is built in to the device. It even doubles as a kickstand for hands-free landscape viewing of movies and videos when you're stuck on the road.

Features include:

• Built-in dock connector to charge your iPhone and flip-out USB tip to recharge without the mess of extra cables
• Extends play time up to 23 hours music, up to 7 hours of video and up to 5 hours of talk time. (Extended play time listed based on iPhone 3G)
• LED battery gauge displays remaining battery pack power level
• Rechargeable lithium-ion battery for iPhone and iPod touch

The Kensington Travel Battery Pack and Charger for iPhone and iPod touch is available for pre-order now with an MSRP of $69.99.

The Comcast mobile application is a free downloadable app for the iPhone or iPod touch that gives customers access to all of their favorite services from Comcast including a unified inbox with Comcast.net email; visual voice mail; address book synch; real-time TV listings and trailers of movies available through Comcast On Demand.

Other features include:

• Check Comcast email and listen to home voice mail in one combined inbox.
• Read, reply, forward and compose email as well as read attachments supported by the iPhone.
• Manage voice mail messages and call logs, view voice mail in any preferred order as well as "touch" to call.
• Forward home phone calls to the iPhone from the iPhone, view call history and manage home phone settings.
• See what's on TV tonight, tomorrow or next week, including program details.
• Watch Video On Demand movie trailers.
• Synch all Universal Address Book contacts to an iPhone or iPod touch as well as the ability to add pictures to favorite contacts.

Download yours today!

The new Reveal minimal case is Griffin's thinnest case yet, adding just over a millimeter to the thickness of the iPhone or iPod touch. Sporting a sleek, one-piece design and a static-peel screen protector the Reveal case highlights the natural design elements of the iPhone and iPod touch.

The Elan Form with Sky Blue Trim for iPhone 3G S and iPhone 3G is the latest addition to the Elan Form family of cases. Featuring hard-shell and form-fitting leather this case offers triple protection in a slim, no-clip design. The Elan Form features Griffin's EasyDock design, allowing convenience in docking without removing the case. A flexible screen protector is included to keep the Multi-Touch display free of smudges and dust.Read more

Apple just announced a special deal for students – buy a MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, or iMac and get a free iPod touch! To qualify for this offer you have to be a student or employee of any K-12 or higher-education institution. Parents are also eligible for the program.

This is how it works: to get the free iPod touch you have to buy the iPod touch at the same time as the Mac. Then, after the purchase, fill out the rebate form online and wait to get your money. The good thing is, once your claim has been submitted, you can check the rebate status online. The bad thing is, these days many people don't have an extra $229 lying around (I know I don't!). But if you do, this is an excellent deal from Apple!

This offer is available only at the Apple Online Store, Apple Retail Stores, and Apple Authorized Campus Stores and ends September 8, 2009. Rebates must be submitted by October 9, 2009. Get full details at Apple's website.

Savant has a great Home Automation product called Rosie. I am sure the founder, Bob Madonna, has a real George Jetson style Rosie that keeps his house clean. This one his company sells is almost as good as the Rosie we all know from yesteryear on the Jetson's.

This iPhone App is not new, it is actually the very first iPhone App remote that controls your Home Audio/Video experience. There are many more today. I actually prefer the Rosie Contemporary Remote over the iPhone Rosie App, and I could only be so lucky. The iPhone App alone costs $199 from the App Store. The current version is 3.8 and you need 2.9MB of space on your iPhone/iPod touch.

The Savant Web site is cool, and you should check it out… www.savantav.com/home.php.

The GV Mobile App is pending approval, and will most likely be approved before the public launch of Google Voice. IP Telephony has been mobile for some time with Skype and the various SIP phones available. It will take Google's strength and market share to make IP telephony mainstream. I predict the white space that currently carries analog television will become WiMax, and SIP phones will become mainstream.

The iPod touch users who will be able to make voice calls with GV Mobile should be pleased with this application. GrandCentral users are still being converted to Google Voice, and most of these users had already found Grand Dialer for the iPhone. GrandDialer allowed callers to make calls from their GrandCentral telephone number.

Google Voice is free, and GV Mobile might cost some money. It is possible the price will be in the $2.99 range. It is most likely worth $9.99 or more. As a one-time charge to have voice function on an iPod touch, I am sure many people will pay what is needed.

Here is a great review with screenshots from iPhone Freak: www.iphonefreak.com/2009/03/gv-mobile-google-voice-iphone-app-screenshots-posted.html

The iPod Touch 2G is an awesome time killer when playing games, surfing the Web (Wi-Fi needed), or just listening to music. How many times has your iPod Touch 2G run out of juice forcing you to pause your game, movie, or Web surfing? Mophie knows that you are frustrated, and that is the reason why they developed the Juice Pack for the iPod Touch. The Juice Pack from mophie is a battery extender and a non-slip rubberized case in one with an MSRP of $99.

My first impression is that this is a quality product. I like the four LED lights that display the amount of "juice" the battery is holding too.