triggerhappy today announces Status Symbols 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Status Symbols is sign language for what’s on your mind. The app came about after recognizing the need to communicate in loud places and quiet spaces. Come up with your own creative usage or be lazy and refer to our handy key. Soon to be universally recognized as the liberation of communication, status symbols = sign language for what’s on your mind.

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alright… when u open up i tunes, click store on the top towards the left hand corner… once u click tht,, find the authorize computer button, enter ur i tunes account and plug in ur i touch… now click file on the left hand corner and hit transfer purchases
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Right, so bearwith me here: this week our apps are all about learning new things,understanding the world around you, meeting new people, playingextremely silly games in large groups. Sort of like being a kidagain! No? Ok.

Pocket Universe: It’s a pinchy, zoomy, 3D star map for theiPhone and iPod Touch. For the iPhone 3GS, for which the new PocketUniverse is designed, you get full-on astronomical augmentedreality. Using location services, accelerometer data and the 3GS’scompass, Pocket Universe pseudo-overlays information about yourstars, planets, constellations and general space things accordingto whatever you’re pointing at. Three dollars.

Loopt for iPod Touch: The Loopt iPhone app has been around aslong as, well,iPhone apps. Since 2008,it’s earned its keep as one of the only useful friend-locatingapps. Just about every mobile platform has a client, with onenotable exception: the iPod Touch. That, along with Of course,Loopt isn’t quite the same without GPS, but Wi-Fi location will getyou by in a bind. Still waiting for a proper 3.0 version though.Free.

Seek ‘n Spell: iPhone games tend to be a lot like games for anyother portable device, and rarely leverage some of thetraditionally non-gaming capabilities of the handset. Part of thisis because, until recently, the developer SDK was sorting oflimited. Most of it, I think, is because developers just haven’tbeen thinking hard enough.

Take this clever, if obvious, idea for a game: A map of whereveryou are is overlaid with letters, which you and you teammates cancollect by physically running to their icons. Your goal is to comeup with words for points, Scrabble-style. It’s a very, very coolidea, and decidedly sweatier than your typical iPhone game. Abuck.

MSNBC: Hey, look, another news organization has a content app!Let’s talk about it! This one’s less about news than about cateringto fans of the network, with an emphasis on video content as wellas Twitter feeds from MSNBC personalities. It’s a bit hard on theeyes, and occasionally goes stuttery on you, but it works fine. Funfact: according to the iTunes description, this iPhone app, beingan MSNBC product, uses “Microsoft’s Advanced Technologies.” Whatthis means, I have no idea. Free.

Fluent News: If you could sense a lack of excitement about thatMSNBC app, that was because of apps variety Fluent. It’s far fromthe first multi-source news aggregator, but it’s one of the betterones. It behave like Google News, more or less, collectingimportant news from loads of sources and grouping it in a sensibleway Why not just use Google News then, you might rudely interject?Well, for one, Fluent can cache news for offline reading, forplans, subways, caves, or wherever. It also prefetches longerarticles, though I couldn’t really tell in my brief testing.Anyway, it’s free, so why not?

Skype: Another incremental update to another extremely popularapp. This one gets an interface lift, but most importantly, twouseful features for people who use Skype’s pay services: textmessaging with SkypeOut credit (good for cheap international texts;bad for having no reply go), and Skype Voicemail support. Voicemailsupport is a bigger deal than it sounds: since receiving calls whenyou’re out is still pretty much out of the questioning, thevoicemail access makes being out of touch a little less irritating.Still free.

Air Sharing Pro: We’ve always been impressed with AirSharing—it’s a solid file storage/viewing solution in itsbasic form. The Pro version, though, is a different animalentirely. First of all, it’s expensive: $10, to be exact. It’s alsogot expanded support for file storage services like, MobileMe,MyDisk, and Drop.io.

The main draw is that there are tons of new file functions:emailing, which is a huge help; direct printing, via OS X printersharing; archiving abilities, including viewing archive contentswithout extracting. It’s a bit like a walled-in version of Finder,and the closest to a proper file browser you’re going to get on anon-jailbroken iPhone.

This Week’s App News on Giz:

“Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Adds Events and Photo Albums, But No Push(Yet)

“Apple’s Nudie App Headaches Now Involve Underage Girls

“iPhone OS 3.1 Features: Better Video Editing, Voice Control OverBluetooth, And More

“Remarkable Speech-to-Speech Voice Translator Coming to iPhone andBlackberry

“Birdfeed Twitter App Review: Lean, Fast and Pretty

“Doom Resurrection for iPhone Hits the App Store, Costs $10

“A Whole Lotta Quake Will Be Blowing Up Your iPhone

This list is in no way definitive. If you’ve spotted a greatapp that hit the store this week, give us a heads up or, betteryet, your firsthand impressions in the comments. And for even moreapps: see ourprevious weeklyroundups here, and check out ourFavorite iPhone AppsDirectoryand our originaliPhoneApp Review Marathon. Have a good weekend everybody.

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Do you have what it takes to create the next great iPhone app? Or have it featured on iPhone commercials and installed on the all iTouches at the Apple store? Maybe have a big ol’ icon flashing so fast at the next WWDC that you have to include a seizure warning? There’s an app for …more »

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Good thing they make more than one product. Now just give me aphone with number keys, no hinges and t-mobile usa 3g frequency,please. (Nokia, did you notice I said ‘please’?)

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I know that you have nothing on your hard drive that you are concerned about. Everywhere that you visit on the web is strictly above board, right? Yeah, that’s what I thought. We all have little skeletons in our virtual …

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The vast majority of errors, freeze ups, or general lethargy when it comes to your computer can be traced back to problems and jams in your registry. Your registry is basically your computer’s memory where it keeps all of the settings and particulars for every program which you use and run on your computer. The …more »

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On-board all of our equipment is stateof the art. We’ll use ourGPSappto pin-point our position from the Start to the finish atDiamond Head.

July 4th, 2009
Yet one of the most important pieces of equipment on-board is mysure 1979 Tamaya Sextant. For tradition’s sake (a good thing), theTranspac race organizers wants each boat to submit four completelyreduced sight at the finish line. In other words, at least 4 timesduring the race you have determine your position on the oceansolely by reference to the Stars, Planets, Moon and Sun. Anendangered art. A beautiful skill to have. However one that takestime a lot of practice to learn. Because there are only two of uson board, that’s my job.

Mark Rudigertaught me the basics of celestial navigation duringthe many passages that he and I sailed together. Navigation is askill passed on, navigator to navigator. Especially celestialnavigation. Mark and I sailed and won two Transpacs together in2001 and 2003. Mark, this record attempt is for you.

The principles of celestial navigation are pretty simple: Giventhree distinct celestial objects in the sky, at any given time ifyou measure their elevation over the horizon, there is only onceplace on the planet where you could be. For example at 10 PMtonight as you watched fireworks, if you saw Saturn 19° 32′,Arcturus 62° 55 and Vega 57° 54′ above the horizon, youwould be close to Long Beach, exactly at latitude 33°2′ Northand longitude 118°26′ West. All you need is an instrument tomake those very accurate measurements together with the tools to”reduce those measurements” to your exact estimated position.

I have a “lucky Sextant”. She was made in Tokyo in 1979 and Igot her from Captain, Katayama, a retiring successful Japanesemerchant Captain. Katayama’s last command was the mighty Takarahailing from Yokohama. Katayama told me of many “lucky” voyagesacross the Pacific, mostly between Yokohama and San Francisco,taking Japanese cars and electronics to America and returning withAmerican farm products together with Harley Davidson motorcycles(his favorite) and American Pop culture icons. When CaptainKatayama retired, he wanted to make sure that his “lucky sextant”would be in sound hands and shown proper respect. (All sailors aresuperstitious. I am). So Katayama placed an advert on eBay. Ianswered and we connected. I have several sextants. This is the onethat I want to take with me across the Pacific Ocean: Katayama’s1979 lucky sextant.

July 5th, 2009
The start is at 1PM PST. We leave the dock at 10:30 AM so that weget there in ample time. Our last moment decisions will be whichsails to take or not to take. The rule goes: “If we don’t takethem, we’ll need them, if we take them we will not need them”.That’s mainly for the the very light air sails. They are typicallylarge sails that we have to carry all the way to Honolulu, likeuseless furniture if we don’t use them. However, there is anexorcism quality to this decision. For now, the first 48 hours areforecasted to be wet and wild. Here’sKanaloawelcoming us tothe great Pacific Ocean. That’s good luck!

Philippe KahnfoundedBorland,invented theCamphone, anddecodes human motion. He’s also a fellow outdoorsman, splittingtimeskiing Tahoeandsailing in Santa Cruz. He’ll share his Transpac 2009 sailingrace with us live from the Pegasus Open 50. He and Mark Christensenset the race record for a double handed team in 2008 with a timeof7 days, 15 hours, 17minutes and 50 seconds, besting all boats in overall time forthat year.
[Previous Pegasus Sailing posts on Gizmodo,Pegasus]

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