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.

It’s more than the design that makes Apple’s iPhones and iPod Touches so much an object of desire. It’s the addictive applications that turn them into games consoles, which we all desire.
Google Earth
To begin with, you can use Google earth to Zoom in and out of a 3D world with a tap of the screen – or search by place name and go straight to a location. As with all these applications, you can download it from the iTunes Store.
Bloom
Music composer Brian Eno made this odd synthesizer programme that uses tunes from you tapping the screen. Coolr stuff, which eats up your battery. It’s only£2.39.
Puzzle Quest
A Lord Of The Rings fantasy meets block puzzling. Like Tetris in pants. Possibly the best handheld game ever made, now just £5.99.
Midomi
Play a song to the free-to-download Midomi and it identifies what it is – even if it’s you humming it.
Spore Origins
Unfortunately you don’t get to build a space faring civilization in the £3.99 iPhone version of this evolution sim – you’re a piece of plankton instead. Still, adding tentacles and eyes as you swim around is relaxing and fun.

I’m sure you were waiting for this one. The iLive CD+G Karaoke Machine with Dock for Apple iPod is out in the market. So, now after a long, hard day of work you can unwind by singing the lyrics to to your favorite number. The iLive is unique because it supports CD, CD-R, CD-RW, and CD-G playback and most Apple iPod models (also charges them while docked which is an added perk). The display is a little cramped but gets the job done at 5" and includes built-in speakers for an easy set up.

The machine also has adaptable sound features varying from master volume, microphone volume, echo, balance and automatic voice management for an enhanced tone. Also, A/V inputs and outputs allow you to send lyrics to your TV screen for easy group viewing and 2 microphone jacks ensure the great duet on Ebony & Ivory. The iLive will supply hours of fun, and is a must have in this iPod digital age.

iLive has been making lots of audio products for the iPod. The company will bring two new product lines in 2009, wireless speakers and iPhone docking solutions. Here are the details of the first product: The new wireless speakers for iPod include the iS809B and the iS819B.

The iS809B and iS819B, only $129.99 and $149.99 respectively, are chic additions and for home, office or out on the deck. The wireless speakers with each system are full 2.4 GHz, active multi-channel with Channel Purity units, with wireless assignment for good sound and balance. The main controls and iPod control for the two systems are easily operated using the RF remotes included. The iLive wireless music systems both have AC power adaptors, line input, and built-in clocks, while the speaker can run on either AC or batteries as per usage.

Whether they admit it or not, it’s irrefutable that the Microsoft Zune line of portable media players borrow its inspiration from the Apple iPod line. Starting out with the first Zune that was similar to the current iPod classic.
Touch screens are appearing to be the entire fume now days; it would only make sense for Microsoft to capitalize with the release of a Microsoft Zune Touch. As you can imagine, the Zune Touch would be opposing directly against the iPod touch. Also as you can see, no specific specs or features have been revealed about this currently reclusive device, so we’re just going on our instincts for now.