For those of us who are looking to code some very awesome applications for the Apple iPhone and/or iPod touch, good news: a major investor by the name of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have just announced the launch of the iFund. What's the iFund, you ask? Well, it's a US$ 100 million fund that they've put up in order to help budding iPhone/iPod touch application developing companies along. Yes, that's a lot of money, and it's all for helping the homebrew developers break into the mainstream scene. Awesome!

Apple's iPod players might be packed with all wondrous features it has. Then again, there's one thing that it can't do by itself, and that's record audio. With Logitec Japan's LIC-iREC0, you can actually do it with no problems or hassles.

Itching to get Youtube on your iPhone? Then this should get you going: Apple iPhone/iTouch homebrew developers Max Weas and Pumpkin have recently released the first ever iPhone/iTouch Youtube video downloader called MXTube.

iPod users who would want to have subtitles added to their movie files should take a look at this great find: Submerge. Bitfield's Submerge lets iPod, iPhone and Apple TV users merge a separate subtitle file (either .srt or .sub file types) with a movie file that will still be playable on an iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV.

It's small and compact, but the iPod Shuffle is doubling in size. In memory capacity, that is. Apple has just introduced a new 2 GB model of the iPod Shuffle. If you're a musicphile (like a lot of us here at QJ), bigger storage is always better. Ok, 2 GB may still not be enough, but you have to sacrifice a few things when you want to cram a whole lot into something that small.

The iPod is a popular device for its media capabilities, but what most people often forget is that the device can also act as a video game device. Last December, Sega unleashed their fiery blue mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog, on the iPod family tree. Sega remarked that the device is a "flawless" device for developers to sell their video games in. This comment wasn't directed at the device as a platform, though, but rather at its payment system and its ability to provide media to consumers at large with just a couple of clicks. Hopefully this means we'll be able to see more video games arrive for the device in the future.

Word of the wise to those who prefer using third-party iPhone programs: there's a possibility that Apple itself will host third-party iPhone and iPod touch software written with the upcoming Software Developer's Kit through its very own iTunes store courtesy of Tiny Code. Tiny Code is a developer and repository of various third-party iPhone software fixes.

This video that we have here shows an experimental build of the CrossPlatform Palm emulator for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.

Heads up Apple gamers! Electronic Arts is announcing the release of the game Scrabble as a downloadable title for third generation iPod Nano, iPod Classic, and fifth generation iPod. Aside from that, EA would also like everybody to know that it is re-releasing Mini Golf for the above mentioned variations of iPod. The game was originally released back in 2006 as one of the first ever iPod games.

There's no doubt that Apple commercialized the concept of touchscreen technology with the release of their iPhone mobile phones. As a result a lot of developers are thinking of new ways to push this technology to the limits. A new homebrew application developed by Jahanzeb Serwani now allows you to control your PC's mouse pointer using your iPhone or iPod Touch. Called Touchpad, it basically allows you to use your Apple gadget as a remote... well, touchpad with all the basic features such as clicking, double-clicking and dragging.