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Transform your iPhone into a Game Boy

Turning your iPhone into a Game Boy isn’t just about playing those classic games on your new device, it’s about giving your new iPhone that retro, monochrome look!

Techradar.com gives us the scoop on the latest iPhone protective skin/sticker:

These ‘Monochrome’ stickers are produced by American company Infectious and, basically, turn your iPhone into something resembling a small Gameboy circa 1990.

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Of course, the little red buttons and the Ninty-style D-pad and the back view of a full Gameboy-alike handheld are only for show. They don’t actually do anything.

iPhone skins cost you a cent under $15 from Infectious.com. Utterly useless of course, other than as a talking point in the pub.

So what do you think iPhone owners, are these skins worth the $15?  I don’t own an iPhone, but for any of my mobile/portable devices, I’ve always been a case type of guy.  Leather cases, pouches, crystal-clear shells, anything that gives total protection.  These skins/stickers seem to just protect against scratches at most, I think I’d want a little more protection for any device, especially a $200 gadget such as the iPhone.  Maybe this iPhone skin, a crystal clear case, and a protective leather case would do the trick!

[Thanks: http://www.examiner.com]

IAchieve for IPhone

iAchieve, a $3 star chart app from Goce Petrovski, is cute but limited.

The app aims to let you track any daily activities–like going smoke-free, remembering to exercise, or taking your vitamins. You can set up as many users as you’d like to track within iAchieve, and each user can set an unlimited number achievements to track. Parents might find that the app is useful for charting their kids’ chores or successes, but frankly, my own 2-and-a-half-year-old prefers the magnetic chart in the kitchen to this digital counterpart.

If you or your family are into daily achievement tracking, though, iAchieve sports some endearing options. You can choose from a variety of built-in icons to mark each day you want to mark as a success, like happy faces, stars, or checkmarks. You can set the background color for each achievement you track, too. iAchieve lets you save a daily text note as well, which you can recall from the calendar view.

iAchieve could take one cue from Wii Fit, Nintendo’s fitness tracker for its Wii game console. I’d prefer that iAchieve let you more easily use a new icon for different days instead of requiring a series of taps through different settings screen to change it.

For tracking daily tasks, iAchieve simply works. The app doesn’t offer many bells and whistles, but it certainly gets the job done.

iAchieve is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update.

[Lex Friedman's biggest daily achievement these days is posting to Twitter.]

[Thanks: http://www.pcworld.com]