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If you live an active lifestyle and like to take your iPhone 4 or iPad along you will appreciate Griffin Technology's armored cases designed to withstand most drops and environmental conditions that would otherwise irreparably damage your device. Check out these crazy videos and some of the color options you can create with three piece case.

Adapted from Introduction to Mobile Web Design (SitePoint)

By Earle Castledine, Myles Eftos and Max Wheeler

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This is all speculation at this point, so skip it if you're not into such things.

Appleinsider reports that it's highly likely that Apple will soon announce an iPhone mini or nano alongside the iPhone 5. Here are some key points the iPhone mini may have:

• 50% smaller screen than iPhone 4
• 50% lighter

Ever wanted to be sophisticated while typing your status updates on your iPhone and write café properly with an accent?

If you occasionally need special characters such as é,ü,í,ő,ú, etc. you can get them easily on iOS. Just tap and hold the relevant key until a pop-up menu appears. Then slide your finger to the correct letter and release.

Üdvözlet! (Best regards in Hungarian)
Ivan

If you have a 3G iPhone and you installed the latest iOS4 you may experience sluggish performance, which can be quite annoying. Unfortunately the hardware of these phones can't handle well the features iOS4 provides, but there are a couple of tricks you can do to regain the quick response time you're used to.

Excerpted from Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps (O'Reilly Media)

By Josh Clark

Look at these amazing pictures shoot with an iPhone 3GS and edited with Photoshop afterwards. It proves that great picts depend on great lighting, not the camera.

McCann creative Mat Bisher is conducting an "experiment" as he calls it that's a reaction to Apple's lack of Flash support and a message to Steve Jobs all in one. Here's Bisher's explanation:

Fyrian LLC today announced the release of a new iPhone application that will allow freelancers and creative professionals to quickly generate project estimates while on the go. The application, aptly named "PocketProposal," helps anyone who bills by the hour, by the page, by marking up a wholesale price, or any combination of the three, eliminate the guess-work and stop losing money from spur-of-the-moment project estimates.