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WiFiPad lets iPhone control games wirelessly

WiFiPad is an application for the iPhone or iPod Touch that turns the Apple Gadgets into a wireless game controller. With this WiFiPad installed on your iPhone, it will then become a wireless game controller for the games on your computer.

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iPhone Skype app lets you make free VOIP calls over WiFi

Skype has been released for the iPhone platform, which allows you to make Internet calls on the iPhone, saving you lots of phone bills. You can just hook up to a WiFi network and make Skype calls on the iPhone instead of making the normal phone calls via the mobile operator.

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Xumii Opens up Social Networking on the iPhone

These days, you may have lots of friends online over a couple of social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, AIM, Yahoo! Massenger etc. There is no easy way for you to stay connected with your friends who are widely spread across the mentioned social networkin sites.

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SpeedDate gets you the best date on your iPhone

SpeedDate – the online dating service which helps you get hooked up with your dreamed girl or guy the quickest way, has now made it possible to do it on your iPhone, by having released the SpeedDate application for the iPhone.

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Microsoft’s first iPhone app : Seadragon mobile

Apparently, the popularity of the iPhone has also pulled Microsoft to jump onto the bandwagon of developing applications for the iPhone. The first application developed by Microsoft Live Labs has been unveiled and it’s called the Seadragon Mobile.

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Google voice-recognition search engine for the iPhone

Google has a new app for your iPhone, which allows iPhone users to use voice commands to search Google. The Google voice search app is free for the iPhone users.

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Epocrates Rx – a drug information databank for your iPhone

If you’re a pharmacist, a doctor or someone who needs to frequently access to information on drugs, and you’re also an iPhone user, you can then download the Epocrates Rx software onto your iPhone to give you a helpful databank of those drugs and pills.

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10 games/apps bring more Halloween excitements to your iPhone

It could be the first year that you celebrate Halloween with your iPhone. And you wanna fill it up with full of Halloween atmosphere this year. Here are 10 interesting iPhone games/apps that are specially designed to bring you and your iPhone with more Halloween excitements. Check them out as follows:

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Review: VistaStartMenu 3.0, adds visual easiness to your Windows Start menu

For an overly busy geek, who always installs and uninstalls a couple of programs to and from your Windows OS (XP or Vista), you’ll easily get the Start menu of your Windows messed up. The positions of those programs on the Windows start menu always shift, making it hard for you to relocate the same menu to access a program, once a few of other programs have been uninstalled from your computer. This definitely lowers your productivity as you need a longer pause to locate the menu to access a program.

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Kill Dead Pixel and Dead Pixels Test – two simple online tools to save and detect dead pixels on LCD monitor!

Couple of friends have complained to me that their newly bought LCD monitors having few red and green spots. And they’re pretty frustrated especially when having few spots only on their LCD monitor. As some vendors only allow you to return or exchange for a new one if the LCD monitor has more than certain number of spots. Anyway, it seems there are two very simple online tools to fix these spots which are contributed by dead pixels. And to detect the dead pixels on the LCD before you carry the LCD screen out of the vendor’s shop.

To fix the dead pixels on your LCD monitor, what you’ll need to do is pop over to KillDeadPixel.com. And an image of a flashing square is presented to you (as shown at left-hand side). What you need to do is to drag the image to those spots that have dead pixels and let it stay for an hour or more. It’s been reported to work many times. No harm to give it a try.

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