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Smule has released an update for Zephyr, an application where you write messages with snow on your screen and then anonymously release them to the virtual world. These messages ultimately appear on the screens of iPhone users across the globe. The app retails for 99 cents.

Developers at Citrix have been doing some guerilla marketing at Macworld Expo, holding impromptu demonstrations of forthcoming app allowing iPhone users to run Windows. The app is actually an iphone version of the company's XenDesktop thin client software. The virtualization software supports most Windows XP and Vista applications.

Of all the strange, quirky stuff we've seen in the iPhone's App Store, this one takes the cake: An application that enables you to virtually spank your friends, family or coworkers.

Nimbuzz is a powerful, versatile, fun, and easy-to-use text and voice chat application that lets you connect to virtually every major IM service. Nimbuzz puts MobileMe, AIM, GoogleTalk, Skype, MSN, Nimbuzz's proprietary service, and even Facebook right in your pocket, with excellent results.

While more financially accessible than its front-running iPhone stable mate, the cheaper iPod Touch alternative differs markedly insofar as it does not have telephonic functionality. However, that's all about to change after the release of a third-party application capable of turning the handset into a virtual mobile phone.

Google already has customized some of its Web sites for display on the iPhone, but now the company also dived headlong onto Apple's highly regarded mobile phone with a full-fledge application, a handheld version of its Google Earth geographical software.

Sio the iPhone has found yet another new use: now it has been turned into a mobile credit card processing device, thanks to a new application called ProcessAway. The software is made for an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch and works over any available network connection. Transactions can be processed at places such as conventions, street fairs, antique shows, and by business owners performing mobile detailing, on-site consultation or construction.

Apple iPhone users will soon rejoice when the company releases its new iPhone operating system.