Jim Lynch

Finding a good restaurant when you’re out and about can be a pain in the rear end particularly if you’re in a city and you aren’t sure where to go. Urbanspoon lets you use your iPhone 3G to find restaurants near you.

One of the neat things about Urbanspoon is that you don’t just push a button on your screen to do something (although you can do it that way if you want). Instead you actually shake your iPhone 3G and then let the restaurant wheel spin and land on a restaurant automatically. It’s sort of like using a restaurant finding slot machine. Although it seems silly, it’s actually a cool use of the technology in the iPhone 3G and it makes using Urbanspoon kind of fun.

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One of the biggest complaints about Apple’s iPhone 3G has been the lack of landscape mode when typing an email. Viewing an email in landscape modes means tilting your iPhone 3G on its side and letting the accelerometer switch the view. Unfortunately Apple’s email program doesn’t have this feature.

Enter EasyWriter. EasyWriter is a simple application designed to provide some of the functionality that Apple’s email program doesn’t have. One of the coolest things about EasyWriter is that it lets you use adjust the text of your message using Pinch and Zoom.

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When a new software platform like the iPhone launches you can always count on there being a number of different pool games. Adrenaline Pool Lite is a free game that puts a multi-player twist on the game of pool. Yep, multi-player pool on your iPhone!

Adrenaline Pool Lite lets you play 8-Ball, Snooker, Straight or 9-Ball against players from all over the planet. The game also lets you engage in text chat with other players. Match-making for games is automatic and very easy. Please note though that Adrenaline Pool Lite is multi-player only. There is no offline play in this release.

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One of the best things about owning an iPhone 3G is that you can take it with you wherever you go. Traveling is where the iPhone 3G really shines. Very few other devices can let you make phone calls, browse the web, play games, watch movies and TV hows, and run a zillion different applications.

In this round up we’ll take a look at the top ten best free travel apps for your iPhone 3G.

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Full length feature films are finally coming to YouTube according to CNet:

YouTube will begin offering feature films produced by at least one of the biggest Hollywood movie studios possibly as early as next month, according to an executive with a major entertainment company.

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For months, Google, YouTube’s parent company, has been talking to the major film companies about launching an ad-supported, streaming movie service, two execs with knowledge of the negotiations told CNET News. “It’s not imminent,” said one of the executives. “But it’s going to happen. I would say you can expect to see it, if all goes well, sometime within the next 30 to 90 days.”

I’m forced to ask the somewhat stupid and obvious question: What the heck took YouTube so long? I’ve wondered for a long time why premium, professionally produced film and TV content hasn’t been available on YouTube. It seems like a natural fit doesn’t it? A site entirely devoted to video content and yet totally lacking in legal movies and TV shows.

Weird.

Now don’t get me wrong, I like watching clips of pets and that sort of thing as much as the next guy. But how many dumb user-generated videos can you sit through? After the first 500 of them you want to pull your hair out at the stupidity of some of the stuff on YouTube.

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