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Google helps keep your kids off inappropriate sites, Motorola wants out of the set-top business, and a new iPhone app will help you get that nasty coffee stain out of your khaki pants.

In this special edition of the Apple Byte, we're going to show you some of our favorite iPhone tips and tricks, including how to watch free TV shows, sharing purchased apps, and using your iPhone on Verizon.

Last week we reported on a story about Pepsi's "Amp Up B4 You Score" iPhone app that offered "helpful" pickup lines targeted at a very specific type of girl. For example, if you choose the "political girl," the app offers several jokes about stimulus plans, global warming, etc...you can use your imagination to figure out the rest. Unfortunately, if you didn't download the app you're out of luck, because Pepsi removed the app from the iPhone store.

Barnes & Noble is set to launch its Nook e-reader, Rock Band comes to the iPhone, and Google and Virgin plan to offer a gift for the holidays.

This week on the Mailbag, Bonnie Cha helps one of you choose an iPhone, Molly confesses that she lied to you, and long-overdue love for the 404.

Amazon offers same-day shipping, Verizon bashes the iPhone, and we have screenshots of a test version of Android 2.0 code-named Eclair.

Have a Google Voice account? Have some voice mails in there? I may have listened to them today! Thanks to some leaks in the Google cloud (rain?), it seems some folks voice mails are searchable on Google. Glad that eye appointment went well! Also Verizon and Motorola are bringing it to the iPhone. But will Verizon have to make a switch next year if the rumors are true?

Dear friend and marketing expert Rana Sobhany is back on The 404 Podcast today in lieu of Jeff who is taking a day off from his hard video game reviewing work. Rana always brings us something when she comes on the show, last time she brought cupcakes, so we definitely owe her a batch; however, this time she brings us exciting news that she's currently unemployed! Hooray! After building Medialets up into the iPhone powerhouse that it is today, Rana's ready to jump into a new project, but not before taking a bit of a break and focusing more on brand consulting. So congrats to Rana on her new horizons!

Access the Verizon data network on your iPhone with one handy device.

Scott Stein reveals a secret augmented reality view for the Yelp app for the iPhone 3GS.

Thousands of e-mail passwords are exposed, the iPhone gets Flash support...sort of, and an ATM will recycle your old gadgets.

Travis Boatman of Electronic Arts shows off Madden NFL 10, the first game in the popular franchise to be sold in the Apple App Store.

While it's expensive and isn't loaded with features, the Bose SoundDock 10 is classy looking and sounds excellent for a compact iPod/iPhone speaker.

The Altec Lansing inMotion Classic offers a stylish to way play your iPod or iPhone around your home with remarkable sound for its size.

Microsoft launches a free antivirus program, Disney creates its own version of e-books, and your iPhone can double as your car key.

Microsoft shows "Pink" (sort of); MMS disaster, er, feature about to launch on iPhone; Wii gets a price cut; Archos' new Windows 7 tablet looks great--too bad nobody will notice; and MIT has a synthetic eyeball on the way that amazes us. Oh yeah...and about that cuddle party...

This week on the Mailbag, we try to throw a bone to international iPhone users and clean up our playlist once and for all. We hope.

We couldn't record today's Podcast without spending a little time on Gizmodo's big unveiling of Microsoft's secret tablet PC. The blog is reporting that even though our first inclination is to call it a tablet, it's really more of a booklet, with two 7-inch(ish) screens with multitouch, a 3MP camera on the back, and a fancy stylus for clicking, writing, dragging, and drawing. In typical 404 fashion, we have to poke fun at the fact that while a long plastic pen is very innovative, we wish it had fully functioning voice recognition, but as we've seen from the Google iPhone app, that technology will likely never be perfected. In the meantime, it looks like the Microsoft booklet will materialize before the fabled Apple tablet.

Learn how to make video playlists in iTunes and use them on an Apple iPod or iPhone.

You might see Netflix on your iPhone very soon, Chuck Norris is my hero, and we dish out three Bad Apples.

It's the Prizefight you have all been waiting for between the titans of touch-screen phones. Does the Palm Pre have what it takes to beat out the iPhone 3GS in its first bout? This one goes down the wire!

Sony launches a new line of Walkman players, an ugly physical keyboard is now available for the iPhone, and how to make voice calls over Twitter.

This week in the Mailbag, we answer the age-old question: how do I get CNET on my iPhone? And why is that guy touching his grandma?

Brian Tong shows you how to share a purchased app from iTunes and let other people use it without repurchasing it.

CNET Senior Editor Donald Bell offers a Quick View of the new search, recording, and media features found on the second-generation iPod Touch running iPhone OS 3.0.

Will the iPhone 3G be able to weather the Storm? BlackBerry takes on the iPhone 3G with its first touch-screen phone.

Steve Jobs is back for Apple's annual music event showcasing an all-new iPod Nano with a video camera, an updated iPod Touch, iPod Classic, and Shuffle, the revamped iTunes 9, and iPhone OS 3.1.

The monkeys are running the zoo: Rafe Needleman, Brian Cooley, and Brian Tong, with producer Lynn Fu, cover the iPhone finally getting MMS, Google's patent on its home page, Amazon re-delivering 1984 to Kindle, and the closure of the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge.

This week in buzz, China puts its porn filtering on hold, the King of Pop clogs the tubes, and iPhones are burning hot. Literally.

Once again, Donald and Jasmine promise a "short one" and fail to deliver. But how is it that just two devices manage to stretch on for the standard 30 minutes? We'll tell you: one of them inspires a lovefest that's saccharine enough to make your teeth throb, while the other throws Jasmine into a tizzy dripping with disappointment. This discussion on two new players--the Sansa Clip+ and the S-Series Walkman--is not to be missed. Also, the MP3 Insiders touch once again on the possibility of subscription music on the iPhone and iPod Touch.