Over at The Consumerist today they have a great article about a nice iPhone app by Verisign (only iPhone for now, doesn’t support iPod Touch) that lets you secure your transactions on Paypal, eBay, and a few other sites. There’s also a step-by-step guide on how to set up your PayPal account to work with the iPhone app.

Note: In the comments, tvmitch pointed out that you can also have PayPal send you a six-digit code every time you want to login in case you don’t have an iPhone, just click the option that Chris Walters marked with “not this one!”.

The Mobile Manager for Netflix allows you to add, remove, move and watch trailers for movies in your Netflix Queue. I just did a little bit of testing on the app and it worked just like you think it would. I was able to remove a few movies, move a movie around in my queue, and add a new movie to my queue easily and all in about 5 minutes time.

The preview trailers are surprisingly clear and even while I was in a low signal area I still was able to buffer enough to watch the trailer well enough.

This is a free app from Microsoft but you have to have Microsoft Livean account with to download it. I also had to fill out a small form before I could download the app (I didn’t see any way to skip that even though I had a Live account). For all the prerequisites you have to do you’ll be ready to add and remove movies from Netflix at a moment’s notice!

In about 2 and a half hours MobileCrunch is going to start giving away iPhone app promo codes. They say that there will be promo codes for “dozens of applications, each worth anywhere from 99 cents up to $30 bucks.”

Basically it’s going to go down like a Woot-off: the promo code will stay up on the site until they give away all they have for that app, then the next one will show up. If you want to grab a few free apps make sure that you keep refreshing this page from 9 AM EST until they are done, because once the codes are gone they are gone forever.

I’m sorry for the lack of updates to the site lately, I’ve been working on another site for my local area and kind of put TML on hold for a bit. The other site is called What’s Not Closed and shows which places in the Augusta, GA area are not currently closed. It’s open for anyone in the CSRA to update and I invite anyone around to add places.

I do have a small update though, I’ve found a new application for the Windows Mobile phones that I’m going to be reviewing soon called Adventure PDA — an application that runs Scott Adams Adventures on the WM platform. If you have any suggestions on which game I should try out on the app, let me know in the comments.

Gizmodo just released their guide to hacking the G1 for multitouch. It requires you do some ROM installing, telnetting, and some other geeky things but if you really want multitouch then you should have no problem getting it by following their guide.

You have a stylus on your touch phone but if you are like me you don’t want to have to pull it out to click one hard-to-touch button and then put it away. No, it would be much easier if you could just have a mouse pointer for a moment, click that button, then hide the mouse so you could get back to work.

Well Innovisoft thought of that idea and put it in an easy-to-use app that is simple and to the point — VirtuaMouse One-Hand. Just download and install, set the view/hide mouse button, and run the application and you are ready to roll. The mouse moves with the directional buttons and you click with the Ok/Enter button.

You can download a free, 30-day trial of VirtuaMouse from the Innovisoft site, and you can purchase your own copy of the application for just US$19.95.

According to Jaunted.com, select airports in Texas are “experimenting with checking in passengers via QR code, or those curious black-and-white nouveau barcodes.” [via Jaunted]

Edit: You can read about I-nigma Reader, a free QR Code reader for Windows Mobile, here.

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Twitter really wasn’t my thing when it came out, I didn’t understand what the big deal was about telling everyone what you were doing. I think it’s a misconception now, though, as I read/hear people talking about how they don’t think it would be fun for them (or others) to tweet about what they are eating or where they are currently spending their time (especially if it involves a porcelain throne). I also think it’s a matter of how many friends you have and how active they are, but it also depends on HOW you tweet. I was bored with sending in tweets by text message and I wasn’t able to get every person on my follow list on my phone so I went in search of a Twitter client for my phone.

I downloaded a few different clients and finally came upon PockeTwit on the Twitter Fan Wiki, which is quickly becoming my favorite client. Out of the handful of clients that I tried (almost all of the clients that were for Windows Mobile) PockeTwit was the only one that actually ran and performed as I expected it to. The application is quick and updates even when it is “minimized,” which is what the developers called it when you close the program but don’t quit it.

The only drawback to running PockeTwit, as with any app that is constantly checking for updates on a server, is that the battery drains quite fast. Normally I can go all day on a charge (that’s a full 12+ hour day) but with PockeTwit running I’ve had to charge it after 8-9 hours, it’s not a huge thing seeing that I am normally driving home from work around then, but it is much different than I’m used to and could become a nuisance.

PockeTwit is freeware provided under the MIT License.

One of the most popular posts on this blog is the one about I-nigma and it really goes to show that people think that 2D barcodes are the next big thing. Apparently Microsoft thinks the same thing because they just released their own 2D barcodes and reader — Microsoft Tag.

Instead of the usual black blocks to make up the barcodes, Microsoft used multicolored triangles, making the barcode smaller in comparison to other 2D codes.This allows Tags to be used in a wider variety of places, unlike it’s brother the QR code. These Tags can be used to quickly link a user to a web address, send a vCard, send text, or even place a call, all with your phone’s camera. The applications are endless!

Microsoft wasn’t stingy with their product, either, once you download and install Tag (you can only install by visiting http://gettag.mobi on your phone at the moment) by visiting gettag.mobi on your phone or by sending the link in an SMS, you can create your own Tags for your print or online projects.

Microsoft Tag is freeware from Microsoft, creating Tags is also free. Here’s one I made, just open TagReader on your phone and point your camera at it, and then let the Tag do all the work!