Some industrious digging into the iPhone revealed potential new widgets and applications on tap, just waiting for an upgrade to unlock them.

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There’s a reason why your new iPhone has a virtual keyboard. That reason’s name is Steve Jobs, who has disdained buttons on Apple’s products for years.

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A little tweaking and a lot of heat avoidance should allow iPhone owners to prolong the life of the non-owner-replaceable battery inside Apple’s latest gadget.

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Why go to a bar for karaoke night when an iPod may be the way to see the lyrics while a song plays?

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Mac owners often complain about being left out, but they’ll soon have one less reason to do so. “GameTap has opened up its online gaming service to Mac users,” reports Matt Martin of GamesIndustry.biz, “offering 500 titles from its library of videogames.”

A number of these titles are instantly recognizable – Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Sonic the Hedgehog caught my eye (and reminded me of years long gone) – so no one should worry about the quality of the games. As for the timing . . .

“Currently Mac users can only take advantage of the GameTap Lite Player,” adds Martin, “with the Deluxe Player promising full-screen gameplay and other features when it launches later this summer.”

Once the next version of Mac OS X hits the world, people should like some of the little tweaks the design team has worked into the operating system.

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