This app is quickly becoming one of my favorites for a few reasons: I can read news and also tune in to NPR stations and listen to podcasts (such as Car Talk). Worth a download and it’s free!

CrunchGear has posted a hands-on video of the Zune HD and it is looking mighty awesome! Me wants!

Yesterday, BGR reported on inside info about an upcoming update to iTunes which would include support for Blu-Ray and virtual iPhone apps management. Here is a concept video by svdomer09 of how the latter would possibly work and all I have to say is that if true, this would be awesome!

In keeping with the “push” theme that I’ve been on lately, now SportsTap has updated their iPhone app to include push notifications for your favorite teams and sports. I have had a chance to test it out for a couple of days and it works very well.

I have my app set up to notify me about my favorite baseball team: the New York Yankees. The app sends me a push notice whenever the game in which the team is playing starts, changes score, or ends. The notice happens within 10-15 seconds of the actual score change. I was able to determine this by watching one game while testing how fast the notifications would arrive. Not too shabby and the app is FREE from AppStore.

Umbrella is a nice little app written for the iPhone that tells you simply whether you should bring your umbrella or not when leaving the house. It takes advantage of the iPhone’s push notifications service to display a message at a time specified by you.

You set your location and tell the app at what time you want to get the push message. You can also tell it when you want to be notified in terms of rain probability. For example, I have mine set to only notify me if the probability of rain is 35% or above.

It’s definitely a nifty little app and I have certainly found good use in it. I recommend it.