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The default screen is a location-based map with nearby stops highlighted, which can be crucial when you're in a hurry and on the verge of powerwalking. Bookmark your frequently used stops and find out how many minutes you have with 2 taps.

Anyone that has worked for, with, or anywhere near "the man" should dislike the word ping. It's too easy to immediately associate the word with a bothersome, middle aged project manager saying, "Let me look into that and I'll ping you." Why can't you just say email? Why?

Seattlest Donte is part of the brain trust behind the new iPhone app U2 Can Yodel, so we aren't going to review the program ourselves. Let's give Applick the mic for a quick thumbs up: "The app takes you through a detailed yodeling tutorial, including a record-and-playback feature, then on to a 'yodeloke' where you can sing along with a professional yodeler, and a free-style section. The app is highly usable and very engaging, largely thanks to the charming animated backdrops and easter eggs (well, egg)." It may be hilarious simply to own a yodel app, but the startlingly extensive tutorial (with master yodeler Kerry Christensen) that U2 Can Yodel provides opened our eyes to just how much more potential there is for iPhone apps.

Yay! Gothamist has gifted us with a more mobile-friendly version of the site--some of you have already noticed this, as it's set to serve up when you reach the site via your mobile phone or PDA. (If it doesn't mobile.seattlest.com is the address that will set things right.) Depending on how JavaScript friendly your phone is, you may even be able to comment and like posts from anywhere. Let us know how it goes!

Looks like someone reading a book doesn't it? Well, yes and no. That's a Kindle! With a nightlight attachment, even. It may seem a small thing, but after writing post after post about the Kindle, we'd still never actually seen one al fresco, as it were. (Which, interestingly, we heard the other day isn't used by Italians the way we use it to mean outdoor dining.) However the other day, the geek planets aligned and we spotted this person whiling away the time before a SIFF screening, so we snapped a picture with our iPhone.

Just saw this over at Publicola, and it's awesome--the Seattle International Film Festival has developed an iPhone app, iSIFF. You can use it the SIFFter service on it, check venue info, even buy tickets! There's also their Twitter feed. Oh, and we should point out--tomorrow night's the grand opening gala, $50 for non-subscribers. Click here to launch iTunes at the iSIFF page, or just search on your phone.

Local blogger Shane Becker has a hilarious/infuriating post up about his experience being detained by police while shopping at REI's flagship store. While waiting in a customer service line, Becker says he saw two Loomis guys working on an ATM. Never having seen the inside of an ATM, he walked over and snapped a picture with his iPhone. After Becker refused to show his ID for taking the photo, things went very wrong, with a Loomis guy offering to tackle him if he tried to leave, REI loss prevention officers showing up, and eventually the SPD, who put him in cuffs and detained him for half an hour at the West Precinct. Becker, who one suspects was writing his blog post in his head the whole time, ends with a list of just a few snapshots of the insides of ATMs you can find on the internet. We'll close with the Photographer's Bill of Rights.

The past couple days the 3G for our precious iPhone has been way wonky, but only in certain areas of town. It's working completely fine on the Hill, but as soon as we cross into Downtown--pretty much as soon as we get past the Paramount--we can only access our internets on AT&T's not-as-fast EDGE network. We also experienced this problem yesterday at the SIFF launch; in the Seattle Center campus, 3G worked just fine, but once we got out into Queen Anne proper, the network went down. We haven't ventured into the heart of darkness today, but we've heard others have the same issue, though coverage on the official map looks just fine. Anyone know what's up?

Tech Flash got curious about Microsoft's new budget-conscious laptop shopper ad and did a specs comparison with a Mac, but they didn't cover one area that people will pay lots of money for, which is quality and customer service.

Thanks, everyone who came out to the Seattlest Happy Hour at Zig Zag last night--and thanks to Ben and Autumn for pouring drinks down our thirsty gullets. We had a chance to order an Aviation, which we wanted ever since we read about creme de violette in The Atlantic. It may be impossible to convey in words how cool you feel drinking a slightly purple drink called Aviation.

You no longer have to buy a Kindle or give Amazon.com any money in order to access the bulk of Kindle content and features, thanks to a new application (download here) released by the Seattle-based book giant today which allows you to read, highlight, and bookmark e-books Kindle-style on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Just last month, Seattlest got to handle our first Kindle; its owner had to gently inform us that the first-generation version did not in fact have a touch screen after a full minute of watching our grimy fingers scooting along the surface in vain. If you have one of the old Kindles and don't want to invest in a new one just for the touch screen feature, now you have options. iPhone-owning readers: will you be downloading this app? [MvB: Just did.]

LIVE LOCAL RADIO: Seattlest Abbey joins Josh from Sound on the Sound (Abbey's other writing gig) to play over an hour of great local bands, who not only have great albums out but also put on an amazing live show. This celebration of the best local live acts of 2008 is courtesy of basement-dwelling Hollow Earth Radio, an internet-only radio station that's on 24 hours a day, despite the fact you've never heard of them.

You know, you kind of want a guy who has a typography tattoo to put a little more effort into a cardboard sign and maybe elevate the medium a bit... Photo courtesy of Jeff Carlson from the Seattlest Flickr Pool.

In the New Yorker's Talk of the Town this week, they mention the IdreamofHillaryIdreamofBarack website, at which people who have dreamed of either candidate are invited to share what went down (and recently, for balance, McCain dreamers are invited to contribute, too).

The snow is falling, our dear Seattle friends, it simply isn't falling here. Whistler just announced it is open for business, bagging the ultimate ski resort coup of cutting powder before we cut the turkey. Of course you want to go, but in fondly recalling the days of 1998 when the US-CA exchange rate swung wildly the other way, you fear you can really only afford to stay home and play Ski Resort Extreme Halo 3. We've learned a thing or six going back and forth with our neighbors to the north for many a year now, and so we offer you our quick and dirty guide to saving at least a wee bit of money and time in your BC powder-chasing adventures.

Mac released its new Leopard operating system on Friday, and low-tech Seattlest wonders what's up. So we asked Aron Beal, a Web applications developer and genuine Mac nerd, to tell us.

Oh, Apple, Inc. America hates you 'cuz you're beautiful (it's all that plastic surgery!). Seattlest mostly just hates you because you won't let us tinker with your products. You're even getting charged with monopoly, along with AT&T, and Seattlest couldn't have been more smug when we heard about that news.

There was a time when every urban iPod listener had a choice to make regarding personal speakers. Do you use some pair of headphones from the 80s with the orange foam on them that you found in the spare electronics box in the garage to disguise your identity as an iPod owner? Or do you fly the snowy whites your iPod came with and announce your Apple Cool to everyone on the bus, and damn the mugging risks, this being Seattle after all. Or do you sport the giant cans because you absolutely need to squeeze as much sound performance as you can from a 128 kb-encoded MP3? The question has fallen moot as time, incessant television advertising and the near-ubiquity of iPods themselves have wrung the last vestiges of cachet out of the white cables. Just go with what ya got--Seattlest has a pair of these Sony earbuds that sound ok, but have this terrible cord configuration that was dreamed up by either a moron or a marketing guy hoping to horn in on Apple's headphone branding successes.

If you can't tell what that picture is supposed to be, it's Seattlest's Nano strapped to the back of Seattlest's phone (which is, itself, an mp3 phone), which is as close to an iPhone as we'll be getting for the time being. Not that we're above a little gadget humping every now and then, but we're going to sit this one out. People with less restraint (or fatter wallets) than Seattlest will soon be lining up, though, at the University Village Apple Store, where we hear there is already an iPhone display set up in preparation for Friday when the things go on sale. Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times wrote yesterday about how professional line sitters aren't really in demand in Seattle like they are in other metro areas, and it seems to be true: we can't find a lot of evidence of line sitting services advertised via Craigslist either. There's this guy, this guy and this guy, but upon further inspection they seem to be the same guy. Looks like he wants $120 to wait in line for you, but this guy will do it for $30. A bloody war is brewing in the seedy world of discount line sitting.

As the world holds it's breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning.

Steve Jobs just unveiled the new iPhone in his keynote speech at Macworld in San Francisco. If you're a Mac freak you already know this because you've been sucking down the Mac Insider streaming coverage like crack through a straw. If not, would you just lookit this thing?