Looking for a 2006 iMac deal? Or, maybe even a 2007-2008 used one? Don't hurry! Why get a used iMac, when you can get your own, untouched one? In real life, virginity may not be quite a treasure(my own opinion, don't throw stones yet!), but when it comes to Macs, I'd surely go with a brand new one, and if you can get it for under $900...

...that's a real 17 iMac deal, right? Why 17? I hope you're not dreaming to get a 20-inch iMac for that price, because you won't! After all, Apple may be playing smart these days, but "cheaper" doesn't mean they are going to drop their profits just to make us happy!

As you can see in the image above, Apple's education site probably leaked the news of a 17 inch iMac to arrive for $899, according to a Setteb.it article. Now, if this has been done on a purpose or not, we'll probably keep asking ourselves forever...

...but I think that having a 17-inch iMac starting at $899 could really be another great idea coming from Apple, as long as that machine will have at least 2GB of memory and a decent processor.

As long as quality of customer support remains the same, I have no worries about cheaper Macs. Really, now, I have seen people with worries about cheaper Apple products, but we have to face it - Apple is going mainstream on all fronts, and that's great, at least for them. Fortunately, despite all trials I've heard about lately, most Apple users are also happy, and that's all that really matters, in the end.

Some of my friends are looking for an iPhone remote, and this makes me wonder why in the world would someone need a remote control for a mobile phone, and - obviously - I have no answer to that one yet. Even more, I won't even try to find an answer to the question above, because using the iPhone itself like a remote sounds better.

Now, there's only one question remaining, and I think you know it already. Could you use the iPhone remote with your garage door? Or maybe with your TV? Nope, that's not it. Better think about a gaming console! ;)

According to an article by AppleInsider, "At the iGames Summit, Shervin Pishevar of the Social Gaming Network demonstrated the use of the iPhone or iPod touch as "virtual Wii Remotes" for interacting with PC games using the company's new iFun software in the session "Building Gesture-Driven Games for the iPhone.""

The iFun app allows your iPhone remote to send control signals over local WiFi, or even via the 3G mobile network, and it seems we're talking about a really awesome application here. During the even mentioned above, Pishevar used the iPhone as a virtual steering wheel for a PC racing game, and even as a prototype Wii-style golf club or tennis racket unit, thanks to the accelerometer inside it.

The conclusion is that I have to talk to my friends right away, because they have a treasure already, but they're trying to find something completely different...

Have you ever tried to call Jesus? Well, as far as I'm concerned, he's nothing more but a dead prophet, but it seems there are people looking to find his phone number on the Internet. I hope you're not one of those, but the iPhone may become a saviour one of these days, if Steve Jobs decides Amy Tenderich deserves to get what she wants.

Anyway, first of all, we have to find out who is this Amy Tenderich and what does she want from Apple, right? Fortunately, it's not about some lawsuit, but about really helping people. Pheew!

Amy is a blogger who has diabetes, and she things that blood glucose monitors or insulin pumps used by those having this disease should look at the Jesus iPhone and Jesus iPod. Why "Jesus," that's easy - because Apple's way of designing things could be a saviour. She asked "his Steveness" about the defective design of these life-saving gadgets - "have you seen these things? They make a Philips GoGear Jukebox HDD1630 MP3 Player look pretty! And it’s not only that: most of these devices are clunky, make weird alarm sounds, are more or less hard to use, and burn quickly through batteries. In other words: their design doesn’t hold a candle to the iPod."

So...what can be done for these devices to get better? Well, Amy's advice for Apple is to start a design contest, or even create some reference designs by themselves, so things start looking "normal." Even more, she also had the idea of having the Cupertino-based company found an "Apple Med Design School" to teach consumer design to engineers from pharma companies!

Fortunately for me, I never had to use such devices yet, but I agree that some products people really have to use are ugly and pretty hard to use. Now, there's only one question - what can force pharma companies to invest a single penny into this? For them, it doesn't really matter if the customer is satisfied or not, because it's a matter of life and death, so...

You always say you can't lose one thing until it happens. Once, my keys slipped out of my pocket in a cab, but I fortunately managed to figure that out before the driver took off, because I put a hand in my pocket, and there was nothing in it. These being said, losing an iPhone is also likely to happen, and if you don't lose it, there's always someone around with nimble fingers, ready to get some nice gadget from people on the street...

Now, what can be done if you lose your iPhone or, even worse, if it gets stolen? This is a pretty interesting question, and it has quite a few answers, but we won't get into this whole story now, because the iPhone 3.0 software may turn your lost iPhone into your iPhone once again. How?

According to AppleInsider,"A new feature in the iPhone 3.0 firmware appears to let users remotely pinpoint a lost or stolen phone by securely requesting the device's location via Apple's MobileMe service," but since a lost iPhone, as long as it still works, is in the same situation, I am sure this feature is also useful in this particular case.

Unfortunately, MobileMe is not a free service, so those having iPhones and not using it may not see the lost iPhone again, but who can tell? Sometimes, it's only about luck, with or without software to help you...

These days, if you're not at least on two or three major social networks, some people say you don't exist. I have to agree with that, especially since I got a Hi5 account some time ago and didn't spend any time on that site for a very long time. Fortunately, I had contact data entered right, and some of my high school classmates were able to track me down and get in touch with me, since we're having a reunion this May. On the other hand, I still can't digg Twitter, although a lot of people around me say this is the new Internet God. Well, for those of you who love Twitter, there's this iPhone Lounge software...

...a piece of code that claims to be Goose Apps' first product for the iPhone, and "taking the social networking environment of Twitter and extending it into a versatile, flexible, yet easily navigated user experience." Sounds like big words to me, but let's see more of the official description now, shall we?

"Lounge allows you to not only write and read your public and private tweets as well as direct messages, it enables you to compose and view tweets by category as well. You can quickly create your own "smart categories" using Twitter's own search syntax, much like "Smart Playlists" in iTunes or "Smart Mailboxes" in Mail on OS X. Staying current with tweets between a specific set of users, or posts using any combination of words, or even a combination of both, is just a tap away. If you can search for it using Twitter, you can save those searches in Lounge.

Lounge lets you easily browse tweet details, such as linked web sites, referenced users, hashtags, and provides access to the author's profile date, such as web sites, friends, tweets, all on the fly within the application. Thanks to Lounge's thoroughly consistent sliding lists design, recursion is virtually unlimited - just dive into a chain of tweets and users and zoom back out."

Additional features include landscape orientation, and multiple accounts support, as well as the ability to choose the interface style and size you want.

The price? For now, the Mac desktop client comes for free(still a Beta version), and the iPhone Lounge software is available for $1.99 via the App Store.