Now you can become an artist using your iPhone and iPod. Several different iTunes apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch allows the users to edit photos, record music and now paint.

French artist and videographer, David Lasnier used the Brushes app and composed a painting on his iPod and uploaded his artwork to Flickr.  The paintings immediately garnered praises and links from the commenter and bloggers. Lasnier said that the small screen and limited types of brush limit the possibilities, still it boosts his creativity. The Brushes app has its own Flicks group having a number of regular contributors. These contributors create and elaborate professional illustrations with the help of a simple program.

January was a slow month for Apple with iPod unit sales down by 14%. Even Mac unit sales were down by 6% as compared with last January according to a recent NPD data released. The Wall Street was expecting Mac sales to be off by only 4% and iPod sales off by 11%, according to Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster.

According to a report, Munster has predicted that iPod sales should come around 9 to 10 million units. However, Munster finds something cheerful about iPod numbers even though expectations are that     unit sales would fall 6% to 15% by the end of the quarter. He was pleased by the average price for iPods in January, which was up by 4% as he had expected it to fall to 3%.

According to the January report of AdMob, Apple’s iPod Touch has the highest rate of growth for browsing the internet among the mobile devices. The number of requests for surfing the internet from iPod Touch rose to 7.4% in January from 4.7% in December. This is the highest increase of any mobile device till date.

Last month among the ads request from mobile devices, the AdMob report showed that iPod Touch stands second to the iPhone. AdMob supplies online ads mostly to devices such as cell phones. Such reports show very clearly that more and more people are using the internet capabilities through their iPhone and iPod Touch.

The entertainment magazine of Warner Bros. has launched a free application at apple’s App store that will bring everything of TMZ to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Users can now browse headlines, photo galleries and video clips from their Apple devices through this TMZ application. The app is designed to take the full advantage of the iPhone and iPod touch-screen interface.

The app also features a full-screen video player with in-video navigation capabilities. Users can now share photos and clips through email. They can even store videos to watch over and over again. The TMZ app is available for free from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod Touch.

The recent announcement of millions of public domain titles for the iPhone and iPod Touch via Google will excite you think that now you will be able to enjoy reading millions of books and titles of your choice. The titles will also be available on devices that are powered by the Google Android operating system.

More than 1.5 million titles would be from the U.S. alone while the other half million would be coming from outside the U.S. The reader will not have to pay the royalty to the author as all these books will be available on the public domain. The titles will be available on Google Book Search for some time. They are being optimized for viewing on the smaller screens of the iPhone and iPod Touch, as informed by a Yahoo news article.

Apple Games has posted a new article that can examine the game Chinese Checkers for Apple’s iPod multimedia devices. The game adds freshness and recreates by adding extras like statistic tracking. There is also a variety of board styles introduces in the classic board game.

You can also experience some change in selecting the game which was not possible for you in old days. You can choose among boards made of glass, wood, stone, metal or rock. There are also a wide variety of images that you can set as the background of your board game. These images vary right from an ocean to outer space.