I’m an anal retentive guy when it comes to working out. I weigh my food (no lie) and write down what I eat for the whole day including my workout regimen. Calorie King for my Mac has been indispensable for me in tracking my nutritional intake but it’s always been a pain just to fire up the computer to input a snack that I just consumed. Gyminee hopes to make that easier with an iPhone-optimized site to track fitness and nutritional data. I had a chance to briefly try it and although the nutritional database is far from complete, it found 75% of the food I searched for. It also tracks your workout regimen and body metrics. Register at Gyminee to try it out for yourself.

Ask has released a new web based service called Click To Speak which allows you to verbally input your starting and end destination made thru a call via their website. Once a destination has been confirmed, it will then send a text message, along with a link for the directions in either list or turn-by-turn view. I tested it on my iPhone and the service works well with the voice input surprisingly accurate but I’m not sure this has any advantage over using the Maps application on the iPhone. Point your iPhone at http://m.ask.com/ to test it out.

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Myspace and Boom! Studios have teamed up to release a comic book series named North Wind. What’s unique about this release is that it will be made available online for free along with the release at brick and mortar stores on the same day. I uploaded the free download to my iPhone and it works perfectly using iComic.

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If you’re one of the lucky ones who managed to score a new iPhone or iPod Touch for Christmas and are itching to start modding it with new applications, themes, skins or wallpaper, the first requirement is that you need to jailbreak your iPhone. Lifehacker has put up an excellent post on how to go about doing that. Once that’s done come back here and start modding to your hearts content.

Earlier this week when I posted up a blurb about iComic, a native iPhone application which essentially allows you to read files in zip format, most people were excited with the prospect of being able to read their favorite comics or manga at their convenience from their iPhone. Some though expressed disinterest mainly because they weren’t into comics or manga. Using a few tools from the web, you can turn any text file into reading material using iComic and your iPhone thus turning it into a pretty nifty eBook reader. Project Gutenburg alone has over 20,000 free books that you can download in text format from such famous authors as Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, William Skakespeare and many more. Once you’ve downloaded your text files, download iJpegBook which is available for Windows and OS X. iJpegBook which was originally created for the Sony PSP but works great for the iPhone using custom size settings, essentially turns your text files into numbered jpeg files. Once the text files have been converted and saved into a folder, archive the folder into zip format. Then upload the zip file into the var/root/media/Comic folder of your iPhone. Voila, eBook reading on the iPhone.

Actual Screenshots From iPhone: (Zoomsuit Issue 1)

Actual Screenshot From iPhone: The Raven By Edgar Allen Poe.