Great news, iDealyzer Pro is now approved for sale in the iTunes App Store. It has all the great deal tracking of the regular free version of iDealyzer but iDealyzer Pro also has Push Notifications of Woot! and all other Daily Deals it tracks. This means that you don't need to keep opening iDealyzer to see if there are new deals. Instead you will get a notification pop up that lets you know a new deal is available.

My first iPhone/iPod Touch app iDealyzer is now available in the iTunes App Store. It's an early version with many more features and polish planned but it's a good start. Have a look.

Roulette is a cool new game made specifically for the iPod Touch or iPhone. Place your bets by tapping on the table and spin the wheel with a swipe.

Roulette

Looks like universities are giving out free iPods and iPhones. Welcome, Freshmen. Have an iPod. Is it any wonder that US university education is so expensive if this kind of thing is common?

For many years I have been too stingy to have a cell phone on a contract. I don't make a great deal of use of a cell phone and there doesn't seam to be any low use plans. About $40 per month is as cheap as it gets. So I have been using Pay as You Go. For the most part Cingular/AT&T but also with a period on Virgin Mobile (made me feel old). With Pay as You Go I spend on average $20 every 2 months and that is it, no additional fees, taxes, etc. Pretty good deal.

Since the iPhone was released and now the iPhone 3G I've had some serious tech envy. It looks like a great device. Especially attractive is the new app store and the thought of writing a few apps myself. But the thought of signing a 2 year contract and paying $70/month on top of the price of the phone just makes it a non-starter for me.

However I just read this excellent article on Life Hacker.
Forget the iPhone--The iPod Touch is Good Enough. That article is full of great uses of a plain old cell phone. It also mentions the fact that 95% of the iPhone apps work fine on the iPod Touch as they do not make use of the features it does not have.

Now I have iPod Touch envy instead.