Who doesn’t have a spare 10 pounds of weight that they’d like to lose? I’m committed to dropping 10 extra pounds by November 15 and all that I was lacking was a tool to help track the loss.

In the past I’d used pencil and paper to track weight. Each morning I’d step on the scale and view the results of my previous day. That method worked well - except it was all “after the fact” monitoring. There was no way for me to plan my daily meals plus exercise. I’m a big believer that the secret to weight loss is exercise more and eat less. Thankfully I found what may be the ideal weight loss tool for me - MyNetDiary.com.

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One of the coolest iPhone features (which is also on the Apple touch) is the accelerometer; it allows the screen to rotate from vertical to horizontal orientation with a flick of the user’s wrist. Although these Apple products aren’t the only devices with built-in accelerometers (the Nokia N95 and the HTC Diamond are some that come to mind), they will likely be some of the best supported with 3rd party applications. Here is the latest of what I suspect will be a massive influx: Astraware’s GTS World Racing.

You can’t download a trial, so Astraware and Handmark have provided a video of the game in action.

GTS World Racing offers a unique mobile gaming experience utilizing the iPhone built-in accelerometer feature. Players can accelerate, brake and steer the car by moving and turning the device itself. The game includes 64 track layouts and offers a choice of multiple car types and difficulty levels, as well as 4 exciting play modes - Single Race, Challenge Cup, Grand Tour, and Championship.

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The iPhone is probably the single most beautiful phone I have ever seen.  However, under all that beauty lie some real issues.

I share many of the opinions “johns” posted on the Free Software Foundation blog.

So to save you some time, and so I can write about each reason he lists, here are the 5 reasons he lists after the jump. Continue Reading