Use your iPhone / iPod Touch to replace your wallet
Monday, May 12th, 2008
It’s a known fact: the iPhone hasn’t reached its potential, and it’s clear Apple doesn’t intend on unlocking the phone’s true abilities. As a result, iPhone wielders often come up with really cool ways to do things with their devices, and it looks like someone’s figured out how to use Apple’s mobile to replace certain wallet contents.






The iPod Touch and iPhone are not like other iPods; possessing no "disk use" mode. With other iPods it is possible to use that mode to access the flash memory or hard drive directly and pull music off the iPod, this is not possible with the iPod Touch or iPhone. But, there is a free and easy method of getting music from your iPod Touch or iPhone to you PC.
The iPhone and iPod Touch are for all intents and purposes handheld computers with mobile processors, memory and storage space, just like a real computer would have. And, just like a real computer, it should be shut down every once in a while for best performance.
In the same way that it’s possible to dual boot Windows XP/Vista and Mac OSX on a Mac or Linux and Windows on a PC; it’s now possible to do something similar on an iPhone. It’s now possible to boot multiple versions of the iPhone firmware on the same device.
The iPhone and iPod Touch are like fine wines, they just keep getting better with time. More uses are found for them every day and here’s something that I didn’t even think of. It’s now possible to use them as a wireless touchpad for your PC or Mac.
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Even with the lack of phone hardware, the iPod Touch 