“Fingerboarding,” or skateboarding on a miniature skateboard with your fingers remains a mystery to many adults, so they remain torn about the release of Touchgrind, which has now made its way into the App Store and is available for $4.99 right now. It’s one of those kind of apps that you’re either really into, or isn’t even on your radar.

An unpublished part of iPhone’s latest programming framework lets third-party developers pipe video out to an external device, albeit not without a few catches.

Confirmed by Ars Technica, an iPhone technical site, a programming class in the iPhone SDK known as MPTVOutWindow does essentially what its name implies: it sends video out through the Dock Connector port to an outside source, such as an external screen. This was not previously allowed under other versions of the SDK, based on various sources.

The Reviews of the Android G1 Phone on T-Mobile are out and the verdicts are generally as follows: Partly Cloudy¹, but forecasting big things to come. We’re not going to try to hit every point just yet, but there’s one point where this “Sidekick for Grownups” has what appears to be a real advantage over everybody else: dead-simple cloud setup.

So compared to the iPhone, just how good is the setup on the G1? The answer is: Depends on whether or not you’re a Gmail type of person.

Yeah, “depends” isn’t exactly a clear answer, so follow us after the break for a bit more on whether the G1 is PIM Push Paradise compared to MobileMe’s Mechanized Movement of information.

It’s been a month since the iPhone 3G launched, and unlike the US and a few other countries, not every country — or every user — got unlimited data with their shiny new wonder toy. Some, like Canada and Sweden gave eleventh hour reprieves, but others remain bass akwards and incredibly stingy/gouging with their data rates to this day.

But regardless of your cap (or even if you have no cap), how much data are you using?

If you get the urge (or need) to translate while out and about, Google has just put the finishing touches on their Google Translate site, specifically targeted to iPhone and iPod touch users. All you have to do is visit translate.google.com on your mobile Safari browser and let the translating commence.

Google Translate has been optimized for speed and will automatically update language support as the regular version of the app is updated. If you are looking for something free and easy to use for simple translations, this is probably the way to go.

If you still have a first-gen iPhone but want to spruce it up a bit, maybe a bit of case modification will suit your fancy. At least that’s what a group of Russian modders have decided to do.  

This involves replacing the back case with one that allows the Apple logo on the back to glow. Pretty cool looking, if you ask me. Plus, it adds a real sense of symmetry between the iPhone and other Apple products, like MacBooks.

Random Ideas, LLC, today announced the release of Edibles for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

Edibles is a food journal for tracking calories, WeightWatchers™ Points®, carbs, or other values that are typically tracked when users are following a specific diet regimen. This kind of application is often referred to as a “Food Journal”, “Lifestyle Log” or “Points Tracker”.

Jiva DeVoe, the Company’s founder and Chief Software Craftsman said

We’re very excited to add Edibles to our growing list of iPhone and iPod Touch applications. Edibles enables our customers to customize what value they are tracking and to track that value on a daily and weekly basis. Being able to do this quickly and efficiently makes a huge difference people’s ability to be successful with these lifestyles, and we’re happy that we can bring a tool to them to help with that.