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Adobe’s CEO told a World Economic Forum crowd that Apple and his company are working to bring Flash to the iPhone. Unanswered is when that happens, and in what form.The Boy Genius Report blog takes a largely positive tack on Shantanu Narayen’s remarks, but wisely wonders whether Flash will arrive as a standard in-browser function for mobile Safari, or as a stand-alone app made for browsing specific sites. More »

Apple’s 2.0 firmware update generally killed wireless syncing with Linux. Ubuntu users, hackers that they are, have posted a detailed walkthrough detailing a work-around or two that re-connect the two.

We have previously covered how you can play old school console games on your computer. Now, what about bringing it one step further and install these game consoles on your iPhone so that you can play them while you are on the move? More »

iPhone/iPod touch only: Free, no-sign-up file sharing service drop.io is a great place to stash files. With the Droppler iPhone app, it becomes an essential tool for storing and grabbing anything on the go. More »

Mac OS X only: Disk for iPhone is a free application that mounts your iPhone or iPod touch as a drive on your Mac, turning your device into a portable hard drive. More »

iPhone/iPod touch only: The Rowmote iPhone application turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a full-fledged Apple Remote capable of controlling Front Row, iTunes, Quicktime, DVD Player, and Keynote over your Wi-Fi. More »

The update applies to all versions (iPhone and iPhone 3G) and most likely to both generations of the iPod touch. (Just plug in your device and hit Update to find out for sure.) It’s not a terribly exciting update, More »

HearPlanet is a Free Talking Tour Guide for Your iPhone

iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application HearPlanet plays audio tracks of Wikipedia articles based on points of interest surrounding your current location, turning your iPhone or iPod touch into an audio tour guide. More »

iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application Craigsphone puts the popular online classifieds site Craigslist on your iPhone, complete with click-to-call, history, and mobile posting. More »

If you’ve ever needed to search for text on a page on your iPhone, Safari+ has a bookmarklet with your name on it. Oh, and translation, speed-scrolling, and image displaying are covered too. In general, the Safari+ bookmarklets offer up the same kind of functionality you’d get in a full-size browser through the magic of specialized JavaScript. Most are unobtrusive and seamless, and some are quite helpful—forcing mobile Safari to open any link in a new window, for example, or displaying all the photos on a page in a single layout. Like similarly helpful bookmarklet-powered tools Pastebud and Instapaper, you’ll probably have to manually edit these bookmarks to single out the JavaScript, but it seems worth the point-and-drag effort.

Head to the link below in your mobile Safari browser to install and use the bookmarklets.