Lose It! allows users to set goals and establish a daily caloric budget. It also includes a food journal to help users stay on track through diet and exercise programs. It also provides them with a food and exercise database for planning. Lose It! will be available for free during the first six months of its release this month, according to the Web site. It has received positive reviews from users.
Check out this comment: "I love the interface of this-simple, clean, and attractive,'' a user writes on the forum. "I was happy that they responded to my comment and added yoga and Pilates to their exercise list. Really good calorie-counting app!''

Calorie Counter provides users with a guide for calorie and nutrition information, a barcode scanner for nutrition labels, a food diary to record calories burned, a weight chart and a journal to record progress, according to the Web site. The application also comes with a ready-made support group on the site.

Here is what one user has to say: "Hello everyone, I'm new and I was wondering if anyone knew [how] we can edit our activity because I really messed up and I can't reset it at all. Other than that, this app is awesome.''

Anyone that has worked for, with, or anywhere near "the man" should dislike the word ping. It's too easy to immediately associate the word with a bothersome, middle aged project manager saying, "Let me look into that and I'll ping you." Why can't you just say email? Why?

We begrudgingly admit that in the case of this new iPhone app, the name is rather fitting. The application allows free registered users to message each other via push notifications over the data connection, rather than SMS. This is rad for a number of reasons. Most obviously, users of Ping can potentially avoid paying AT&T's reprehensibly priced SMS plans. It also allows the opportunity to communicate with people who have no SMS plan at all, such as complete freaks or friends overseas.

One thing Blackberry has always had over iPhones, and that converts deeply miss, is Blackberry Messenger. It's real time, it's free, it's easy; it's texting on steroids. Ping isn't quite there yet, but it's a step in the right direction.

The excitement of the iPhone finally getting multimedia messaging, is overshadowed by the Google Voice drama

After a long wait AT&T finally rolled out support for the multimedia messaging service (MMS) protocol. This means that iPhones can at last send pictures, video, and audio recordings like users of other smartphones.

IPhones have actually had MMS support built in since June when the iPhone OS v3.0 was released. AT&T, however, kept the functionality disabled for fear it would overload and break its network. Meanwhile, AT&T upgraded much of its network and built extra capacity to handle the service.

On September 22, early last week, it sent a free SMS text message to inform its customers that it would be rolling out the update on Friday. The message read, "AT&T Free Msg: Picture & video messaging (MMS) will be available for iPhone on 9/25. While we prepare your account for MMS capability, the current 'view my message' experience will be turned off but your ability to send and receive text messages will not be affected."