If the iPhone/iPod Touch has a fault, it is the glass screen. My iPod has a cracked screen — It was not me, guv’nor, honest — and the cost of replacing it seems to be around US$300 which is rather more than one has in mind. Therefore furious thought to see if there is a way to better protect the screen. There appears to be none in Google so this is a one-off and anyone can steal the idea.

Take an iPod Touch on a long journey and, if you are keen on reading, you need no other companion. Except an attentive steward who brings you a cold beer now and then.

Loud music blasted into your lugholes makes you deaf. Loud music from something stuck in you ear makes you deafer. This has been known certainly for 15 years. The Danish navy found they could not get sonar operators — they need good hearing — because loud music had done its dirty work.

Users download their apps from the App Store for the iPhone or iPod Touch, test it on the old maxim of suck it and see. If it is not what they want  — one hesitates to use the word ’sucks’ — do not use it again. The price is free or minimal. There is no compulsion to force yourself to like and use the program. And most users don’t. Most vote ’suck’

Wrong of us to leave off the gossip about the new iPhone. Not even an Irish version, shown here. No one, you understand, actually knows. All we can make are informed guesses. And when they turn out to be totally wrong we will pretend it was the next chap, not us.

iPodMe converts movies for your machine. It is wonderful. Not to say that iPodMe is the best free program for iPod Touchor iPhone. Life is too short to test them all. But for what it does it appears to be the best.

Using an iPhone or an iPod Touch you can beat the odds at blackjack. Blackjack may be thought to be a game of idiots but there is some logic in it.

While the images have not been officially confirmed, both iPodObserver and MacRumors have posted photos of what appears to be an unreleased 16-GB iPhone with the number Model No. A1303, which hasn’t appeared on previous iPhone models.

If you want to get in before Apple manages to make it illegal you might like to JailBreak your iPhone now. Or possibly sooner. It has correctly been pointed out that you could do it for over a year. Now it is urgent. For Apple is trying to make it illegal to modify the iPhone operating system to allow the installation of third party software.

When American executives have little else  to do they sue each other. But this time it is different. A Scottish company is suing Apple, although no doubt with American lawyers.