Take a Palm Pre. Plug it into a Mac or PC. Fire up itunes. Lookie there! More Videos: www.phonedog.com Win Free Phones: www.phonedog.com

Alex Jones iphone App Shoots Up On itunes Store Chart www.infowars.com February 10, 2010 Editors note: 7:30 CST. The app for Alexs radio show has climbed to number 6 at the itunes Store. The iphone application designed for listening to the Alex Jones Show has shot up on the itunes Store chart listing free apps. On February 10, the app rated number eight on the chart, beating out apps for mainstream and corporate media sources, including MSNBC, the AP, The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and the Huffington Post The popularity of the free app demonstrates the growing desire for alternative news delivered by new technology. In the coming weeks, Alex Jones plans to release more apps for a wide array of mobile and hand-held devices in order to further spread the word. www.infowars.com

www.tingalin.com Tingalin is a virtual lute application based on the Albanian musical instrument called Çifteli (pair of strings). Melodies are played by shaking your iPhone or iPod Touch as if you were strumming the real instrument. Each time you strum up or down a note is played, allowing you to control tempo and rests by the frequency of your strumming! You don’t have to be a musician to play it, two melodies are preloaded to make you look like a pro right away! Tingalin is unique …

Palm has continued to play their cat and mouse game with Apple regarding iTunes syncing for the Palm Pre.  Recently, Apple updated iTunes to 8.2.1 which seemingly was released with the sole purpose of patching the hole Palm used to allow the Pre to sync with the flagship digital music store.  Now, Palm has pushed an update of webOS to the Pre that once again allows syncing through Apples desktop client.
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It seems as though the entire world is mourning the death of “The King of Pop”, Michael Jackson, by listening to his music, as evident by the surge in music downloads in iTunes. As of this posting, Michael Jackson holds the top 9 album downloads as well as 7 of the top 10 singles with “Man in the Mirror” on top. “Man in the Mirror” with its ballad style and good hearted message seems to be soothing mourners in their time of loss.

Many forms of Media are paying tribute to the pop star’s passing. MTV has put their normal programming of reality tv to the back-burner and is airing non stop videos, documentary, and live coverage from street parties in NYC celebrating Michael Jackson’s death. Many Sirius XM stations will be devoting their programming to Jackson. VH1 Classic will reportedly dedicate the entire weekend to nothing but Michael Jackson.

Climbing to the top of the iTunes charts is no easy task, let alone taking the top 10 in both singles and albums. Michael Jackson also has taken top spots in ringtone and video downloads. This spike to the top of iTunes comes at no surprise with millions of people looking for ways to comfort themselves, but brings to mind the old adage, “You are always worth more in death than in life.” How long will this surge last? Will it possibly help pay his reported $400 million debt, we will have to see.

The much anticipated iPhone 3G S is finally making its way to customers’ hands this morning.  The doors at Apple and AT&T stores start opening at 7 a.m., but many have been in line much earlier, like previous iPhone releases.  This time is a little different because the iPhone 3G S was available for pre-order before the launch date.  Customers that pre-ordered their iPhone 3G S had the option to pick up their new “Jesus” phone at an AT&T or Apple store today or have it shipped directly to them with a beginning arrival date of June 19th.  The stores were planning to have two lines: paid and paying.

Another difference this year is that Apple released the new OS 3.0 two days earlier than the iPhone 3G S launch.  Last year, Apple released OS 2.0 on the same day as the iPhone 3G launch which caused wide span blackouts of the iTunes activation process.  With every iPhone owner, OG and 3G, hammering the iTunes servers trying to upgrade to OS 2.0 and activate service, iTunes sadly failed miserably.  Many customers, including myself, with their new 3G were not able to get it activated till much later in the day.  I say thank you to Apple for learning from its previous mistakes.

How was your experience in the lines this year?  Is this your first iPhone or have you waited before?  Let us know your experience getting your new iPhone 3G S in the comments.

UPDATE:  Reports are coming in from all over the US that the lines are moving really quickly.  It’s great to see that Apple and AT&T got it right this year.  If you are still in line, stay strong, it will all be worth it.

If you have ever searched through iTunes for an app that does exactly what you want, then you know it’s not as easy as it should be.  I usually end up buying an app only to find out that it’s close but not exactly what I want (I wish there was a “try before buy”).  After suffering with an app I really don’t like, I eventually hear about another obscure app that fits exactly my needs.  Why was this app so obscure? Perhaps 50,000 apps in the App Store could be the culprit?  It seems that the success of the App Store has also become one of its biggest challenges.

Apple recently rolled out its Genius playlists which suggest music to users by searching music preferences then returning a suggested playlist consisting of more music from your library and music from iTunes that you may not have heard of yet.  The “Genius” is that you find new artists you like, and the artists find new listeners to support them.  It is a win-win situation.

Creating a Genius app list would need to involve a lot more, I believe, than a Genius music playlist.  The super computers would have to juggle a lot of other info besides beats per minute, rhythms, genres, etc.  Integrating a Genius App list is probably not as simple as it seems, but I’m sure the “Geniuses” at Cupertino can figure it out.  Check out a more in-depth article regarding this at TechCrunch.