If you have not seen this great app for the iPhone you are really missing out. Today in iPab let me introduce you to Pocket Guitar.

This great little app has been on the installer list for quite some time but was only brought to my attention last week. Pocket Guitar plays like a real guitar and even though the sounds are recorded, they sound pretty decent. It can take some time to practice at first , but after a while yo may suprise yourself by playing what sounds like music.

You can also increase/decrease the volume and even choose which guitar you want to play.The settings let you choose from:

• Distorted Guitar
• Acoustic-Electric Guitar
• Electric Bass

Ok, picture this, your traveling around this grand brown land of ours and your desperate for a wireless hotspot? How do you know where to go? The answer is http://iphone.spotigo.net (only works on the iPhone). This great site allows you to enter either a city or postcode and it will display all the local wireless hotspots in your immediate area. You can even choose to just have it list free or paid services if you want.

The service is global, so will also give you hotspots whenever you travel. This is now a permanent bookmark for me and I’m sure will be for many of you who travel as well.

I am a sucker for a good RPG. Just finished Mass Effect on my Xbox for the second time and still occasionally pull out Balders Gate and Diablo when I am feeling sentimental. So image my surprise when I heard today about a web based 3D RPG for the iPhone. Not quite believing it, I checkout out the site.Best of all, it works as advertised.

Yes, we now have “Sunset”, a new RPG created by Donald Hayes. Now the game is not groundbreaking by any means. But considering it is playing via a web page and was created by one man in his spare time, it really needs to be appreciated for what it is. The game has all the hallmarks of a typical RPG: long convoluted story, inventory system, chat dialogues and thankfully a built in save.

So, if you have time to kill, click here and walk into the “Sunset“ 

The other day we posted about Google’s new iPhone optimised interface. Well, just in time for Macworld they have released a new version which is faster, cleaner and more finger friendly than ever.  The upgrade has boosted speed, increases the flexibility in arranging tabs and options, adds automatic refresh to the Gmail inbox and brings iGoogle gadgets to the cellphone.

Click here to check it out.

One major missing feature of the Safari browser on the iPhone has been the lack of Flash support. There are many rumored reasons for this, but it is still annoying to us, the end user.Well, is there is a workaround online that allows you to view some Flash content in your browser. It is not true Flash content, but rather content that has been transmogrified. What is transmogrification? Let us explain.

iTransmogrify is actually a Safari iPhone Bookmarklet which replaces the Flash content with a format natively supported by the iPhone (like Quicktime). An example of this might be; if you are looking at a page with youtube content embedded in it, iTransmogrify will replace it with a Quicktime version pulled from YouTube. But this will only work if YouTube has allready stored a version of the clip in Quicktime format on its servers. This also works with mp3’s that might be embedded within a Flash player.

Want to see it in action? Click here for a YouTube demo or just download the iTransmogrify code yourself from www.joemaller.com.

The folks over at Ecamm network the creator of iGlasses, one of my most used utilities, have just released a beta of iPhoneCam that allows for users to stream video from their iPhone camera over Wi-Fi to any Mac video application such as iChat, Photo Booth or Skype. Best of all, they have managed to be ble to get the camera to record at stream at up to 30 fps. Not bad for a camera developed as a still capture only device.

How does it work? Well, the iPhone app and the Mac component find each other using Bonjour (zeroconf). There’s absolutely no configuration necessary. If there’s an iPhone-based camera available, the Mac finds it and uses it automatically. Pretty easy stuff!

Currently the app is in early beta and has a couple of flaws. First, it is video only, no audio. So you will still need separate mic. Also, it is a Mac only app at this point (sorry Windows users..isn’t it time to buy a Mac yet?)

Wan’t to give it a whirl? The click here to try it out. Or, you can click here to see brief movie of the app in action

Are you a Google user? Then you will probably want to check out iGoogle, the new iPhone formatted version of the popular search engine. Like the typical Google page,it can be customised to display various Google widgets including RSS feeds, crosswords, Gmail, etc but is now on a single column tabbed screen.

You can see a demo of it on your computer by clicking here or point your iPhone to http://www.google.com/ig/i

We all remember that ludicrous scene from Tomorrow Never Dies where James Bond controls his Astin Martin with his Sony Ericcson. Well it may not be as far fetched as it sounds if Delphi get there way. Gizmodo came across the Delphi stand on the last day of CES and saw their latest prototype of an iPhone web app that they had controlling a car in the stand.

With the iPhone the user could access core car stats, open and close doors and windows, set custom seat positioning and even start the ignition!

Click here to see a video of the iPhone in action.

So far in iPab I have been covering apps that can be installed on hacked iPhones since I assume that to have your iPhone working in Australia it must have been hacked in the first place. But occasionally a legit web application catches my eye and I just have to share it with the rest of you.

At CES this week FlyTunes made it’s debut. It is a radio streaming app that takes no hacking to operate. While streaming radio audio on a webpage is nothing new, there are a couple of features of FlyTunes that stand out. First is that it stores up to half an hour of radio in the iPhone’s memory. So when you leave an Edge or WiFi network, the audio will continue. Second is the interface. It is a simple but effective interface that allows you to browse, sort and customise your channels. list. And third, best of all is the price. Nix, nudda, NOTHING!

Due for release on January 21st. Visit their website for more or check out this YouTube video from Engadget of FlyTunes in action.

As many of you with iPhones will know by now, while the iPhone may have a camera, currently it only takes still images. That is all about to change thanks to ShowTime newly released by released by Polar Bear Farm.ShowTime allows for video capture at 6 frames per second at 320 x 627 resolution and stores it as a RAW file.Show Time by default allows for you to record 5 seconds of video. If you want more than that, you need to fork out a $10 contribution.

Show Time is available on Installer now, but you’ll need to add the Polar Bear Farm source to see it, like so:

• In Installer tap Sources on the bottom row
• Tap ‘Edit’ at the top right of the Sources screen
• Tap ‘Add’ at the top left of the Edit screen
• Enter this URL: http://www.polarbearfarm.com/repo/ - and hit OK
• Tap ‘Done’ and hit ‘Refresh’ at top left
• Now you should see Show Time under the Multimedia category

For more info, see Polar Bear Farm’s Show Time page here.