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Google has ported Google Earth to the iPhone or iPod touch, and it’s such an impressive app that it deserves an Apple ad of its own.

The interface for Google Earth will be familiar instantly to anyone who has used an iPhone for more than a couple of hours. Upon launching the app, you see a photo of the Earth from space. To zoom in, you can either double-tap or use the “reverse-pinch” gesture on the screen. Swiping a finger left, right, up, or down moves the display in the chosen direction, and a two-finger rotation turns the display clockwise or counter-clockwise. There are icons on the display (see screenshot at right) for search, using your current location, changing settings, and realigning the display to North.

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Before one week, Twenty08 released a new instant messaging client for the iPhone/iPod touch. MobileChat (iTunes Link) allows you to connect to multiple IM services, including:

• AIM/ICQ/.Mac/MobileMe
• Windows Live/MSN
• Yahoo
• GTalk
• Jabber

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Pennies is a new iPhone application from the same people who brought you AppZapper and Disco. Pennies is a simple, yet beautifully designed, application to manage your monthly budget right from your iPhone or iPod touch. When you first launch the application you are presented with a “This Month” budget screen where you can set your monthly budget, see how much you’ve spent, see top expenses, and get some statistics.

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With my girlfriend in the process of refurbishing her kitchen, I found myself in need of (and without) a carpenter’s level yesterday afternoon. But then I remembered Bubble Level, an application for the iPhone and iPod touch.

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Flying Mac released the FarFinder 1.1 with Spotlight and iSight support. FarFinder accessing your Mac’s files from anywhere easily (just like Mac OS X Leopard’s Back to My Mac feature). Also, all you needed thing is a web browser for it. With this software, you can access any file on any operating system (Windows, Linux, Mac) from your Finder menu and you can search with Spotlight. You don’t see your files with only list mode. You can download and upload your files, also you can Preview them all with FarFinder easily.

Another innovation comes with latest version which iSight feature. You can see who’s using your Mac or just keep an eye on what’s happening on it. All these process making with safe connection at that time. Also, this software includes a special interface for iPhone and iPod Touch. It gives you access to your Mac with your iPhone or iPod Touch absolutely anywhere.

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If you’re a casual jailbreaker, or looking to simply unlock your iPhone, you probably want to wait for another week for the bugs to be ironed out of the system and the software to become more stable. The iPhone dev team have done a fabulous job as a first approach — especially under the huge pressure and time constraints they’ve been subjected to — but it’s still not “ready for Grandma”.

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Just as the MobileMe software was found early, so has the iPhone 2.0 firmware! Yes, you heard me correctly, you can now download the long-awaited, much-anticipated, 2.0 firmware. MacRumors reports that you can download the 2.0 firmware by clicking this link (iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw).

Before you just up and download this random file from Apple’s website, note this knowledge base article in which Apple notes that your iPhone/iPod touch will be erased in order to perform the 2.0 install.

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Apple has a treat waiting for all you iPhone/iPod touch owners who also happen to be iTunes users (I imagine there is a high level of overlap between the two groups): Remote. Remote is a free application that turns your iPhone (or iPod touch) into a remote control for iTunes. Sounds simple, but once you use it you’ll wonder how you did without it.

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After the WWDC ‘08 Keynote, everyone wanted this iPhone game — it received almost as much hype as the iPhone itself. Super Monkey Ball from SEGA definitely has some good qualities, however it does have some bad qualities as well. First off, this game costs $9.99 — a little steep at first glance, but totally worth it after you notice that it comes with 100+ levels.

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Blessed are the patient, for they shall pay $9.95 (or $10.79, with sales tax depending on your billing address) and download the iPod touch 2.0 Software Update (store link), and yea they shall wait some 20 to 30 minutes for the 226 MB of new firmware to descend from the high Akamai and bestow App Store access upon them. In point of fact, also blessed are the impatient who remained awake and clicked the “Upgrade” button every five minutes up until 12 am ET, which is about when everything started to get moving.

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