I love the execution of this simple yet excellent third/fourth/fifth-screen app. As we progress into the multi-device era, the demand for increased usefulness from non-active devices will only increase. Save your visions of fully extensible interconnected consumer screen experience happening anytime soon. This developer took the most sensible path. He made a dead simple app with a single focus. Great job.

“Trickle is a Twitter display for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Simply launch Trickle and let it do its thing. ” via trickleapp

Found via vagabondish

Part of the appeal of owning an iPhone 3gs is the ability to have instant access to a video camera. Also that video camera fits comfortably in your pocket and travels with you 24/7. Now I will admit that the videos recorded by the iPhone 3gs are far from steady. What I don’t understand is when seeking steady video, one would be willing to carry an oversized slingshot but not a small dedicated video camera. Perhaps if I entered an iPhone 3gs Short Film Competition sponsored by Tiffen Steadicam Smoothee, i might use one.

As cult of mac says:

The guys at CameraTown.com point out that this isn’t the first steady-video device for iPhone. iSteady Shot was there first. It costs just under $100; the Smoothee, with its more refined curves, is likely to cost rather a lot more.

The Enthusiast Market

It would seem that the Smoothee would have the highest interest amongst bleeding edge video bloggers and the like. However, from what I see, if those early-adopter/enthusiast types weren’t given a free unit to review and promote, they will most likely turn to the numerous DIY solutions available. Or maybe just lean against a wall whilst recording. What DIY iPhone and/or cameraphone steadicam solutions are you using?

On the flipside, the current #1 paid app in the iTunes app store is a video camera enabled for the 3g and 2g iPhones. So yes, the market is not limited to only 3gs users but come on…its 10fps. Having said that, i doubt many 3g/2g owners will be shelling out $100+ to improve their grainy, 10fps masterpieces.

I was excited to find an update for the facebook app today an quickly clicked to see the update log. OooOo push notifications and phonebook syncing.

I have previously used a helpful facebook to apple address book syncing utility aptly named Address Book Sync. I don’t use it on the regular, however, because i’m a real time sync kind of guy. That’s why my iPhone uses email, calendar, and contact syncing using google sync’s exchange protocol.

As gigaom’s the Apple Blog notes

Contact syncing seems to be a little hiccupy at the moment, but that might only be because I’m also using MobileMe to sync my address book across all computers. It does appear to be working very slowly despite some error messages, though, but I find that the “fb://” format links don’t open anything on the Mac. Probably because the Facebook app developers didn’t count on people who have a desktop syncing system implemented. They automatically launch the FB app on the iPhone, though.

I experienced similar problems syncing with the contacts on my iPhone. Furthermore, my contacts on the iPhone were momentarily wiped out by the facebook update sync errors. I’m inclined to think that the problem lies with the iPhone pinging the google server as each change is made locally by the facebook sync action. I’m just sayin…