Urbanspoon, the iPhone / Touch application, is aimed at the person that eats out with his or her iPhone, and with others. The app is aimed at enhancing your dining-out experience.

Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch software currently rules the world of mobile devices. That is not just stating the obvious — which it is — but the statement is supported by reports from two different firms who analyze such figures although, of course, only on a current basis.

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.

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.

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.

Apple does not understand how to put books on ‘i’ machines. As stated before Apple does not understand the concept of proofreading. To call them useless and chapless and worse things is of little help. You simply cannot get away with that standard of proofreading for some books on the iPhone and iPod Touch machines. For some of those, standards suck. We are biased. We have been through this quite horrid routine. Many times. Many, many times.

Apple would appear not to have been joking when it said it would vigorously defend its intellectual property behind the iPhone.

There will be a new iPhone this year. Probably. Almost certainly. All the signs point to it. And there are indications – small but there if you look for them – as to what changes will be.

The iPhone and the iPod Touch (left out of the heading for space reasons) are the ideal machines for reading E books. Much better in my experience than any dedicated reader I have tested. This is going to have to be a personal account for there is no other way to write it. My apologies.