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One of the things that always bugged me about Apple’s Weather application is it didn’t know where I was. If I’m travelling in some location and want to know the weather I have to go through the hassle of setting up a city.

That frustration led me to check out the Weather application from The Weather Channel. It does a lot more than what I need and is a great tool for hard core weather junkies. It does provide two click access to weather in my current location. A feature I love.

Check it out and let me know if you know of a better weather application.

photo credit: bradleygeeThe Urinal Test is an advertainment game for the iPhone. The object is to pick the correct urinal to pee in when presented with a group of urinals, some populated with dudes.

Amusing to play once or twice. Doesn’t warrant a permanent place on my phone.

I’m sitting in my car waiting for my sons soccer tournament to begin. While waiting I decided to play around with my iPhone.

I was curious to see how well the 3g network worked in the middle of Orefield, Pa. I was a bit disappointed.

According to the Speed Test iPhone app I’m only getting 256kbps here. I guess I should be glad that I’m getting any signal. What it is telling me though is that 5 bars of service doesn’t equate to fast 3G.

I kind of feel bad for the person who left their lights on.

Card Star is an application that keeps track of your loyalty cards.
I was one of the thousands of people that helped propel this application into the top slots in the iTunes store. It was featured in an Apple ad and I grabbed it.

The point is that you never have to remember your loyalty cards, enter the data and when you go to a store, recall it, and the merchant can scan you iPhone screen. Neat idea. I don’t have enough loyalty cards that I care to go through the hassle of entering them.

Another in the series of articles on iPhone apps I’ve used.

This is the official AIM client from AOL. The latest version adds push capabilities. If you only use AOL for IM this is a great application. For me though, I’m on about three different networks. I’m looking for a better IM client. Any good recommendations list them here.

In this first of a continuing series of articles of iPhone Apps I’ve tried. I’m doing a quick write-up of Faces. Faces gives you one button access to a list of favorite phone numbers. It’s called faces because the buttons in the user interface can consist of pictures of the people you want to call.

This is my goto dial application. I don’t use the iPhone Phone app directly for most of my calling. All of my friends and family are in Faces.

Over the next few posts, you’re going to see a bunch of lame-o reviews of iPhone applications. This is not so much to wow the reader with my ability to concisely summarize my experience with these applications. It’s mainly so I remember which apps I’ve tried and which, quite frankly, suck.

Benjamin Wayne, CEO of Fliqz, a white label video streaming  service has lit up the blogosphere with his prognosis that YouTube is doomed and is currently on life support.

His opinion was based on a recent Credit Suisse report shed some light on how much money Google is using on YouTube and he believes that the search engine giant won’t continue to hemorrhage money indefinitely.

I find this interesting given the recent announcements about the ease through which the new iPhone 3GS and other devices can post content directly to YouTube. It would seem that because of the high operating costs of streaming video and the challenges of monetizing it, YouTube will become consumed by it’s own success.