Head on over to the App Store and grab Handy Light (iTunes link) before it gets pulled. Not only will you get a flashlight, but also an iPhone running iOS4 (inlcuding the iPhone 4) that is capable of tethering to your Mac or PC without a jailbreak.

Hit up AppShopper.com for the full details.

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• Handy Light: Tethering App Camouflaged as Flashlight

After having a day to play with it, here are my first impressions:

• You have to sync with iTunes before you can use your device. Enough has been said on this elsewhere, but it is just not good form.
• Initial setup/syncing takes forever. I got a 64GB model. I thought syncing my 32GB iPhone 3Gs took a long time. The iPad now has the distinction of sucking more of my life away due to wasted time syncing than any other device I currently own.
• iPhone OS 3.2 is not fully baked. There are many times where I’m moving a particular application and/or set up applications around and the SpringBoard does not re-spring properly. iTunes will show the correct number of pages/apps, but the iPad doesn’t. Only a reboot sets things right.
• Configuration of mail takes forever. I have eight email accounts. Apple should offer a way to export specific application configurations. I know I can do a full restore from a previous iPhone backup, but this is a new device. I want to set it up as a new device.
• iBooks. If you manually sync your books, there doesn’t appear to be a way to get them off of your iPad and on to your PC. What’s that? Just select the box to sync your books you say? Ah, then I can’t manually manage music or movies. Stupid.
• iPhone apps on the iPad are useless. The fact that Apple has touted this as a feature is horrible. It seems to me that it is more of a bug. Pixel doubling? Horrendous. Even the hacks available through jailbreaking (e.g. FullForce) don’t alleviate the pain.
• App crashes in Apples’s own Apps. The App store has crashed on me at least 3 times. A reboot seems to be the only thing that can bring it back.
• Battery life is amazing. Based on my current usage, I’ll be able to make it a full day on a charge.
• Document syncing through iTunes should never have been built. Whatever happened to the great idea of the iPhone 3.2. OS allowing for mounting a “Shared Documents” directory?

All in all it seems that I have a lot of complaints. All of them are centered around the software experience and can be fixed.

All-in-all, I love the device so far. It fills a need for me as a media consumption device rungs above any other. 1 day into it and I’m using my iPhone less. Now that is saying something.

If only I could find a way to buy apps when my iPhone is dead and I don’t want to wait to download them. It would be better yet if my iPhone could make it through a full day of use without needing a recharge.

From Software Update:

iTunes 8.1 is now faster and more responsive. You will enjoy noticeable improvements when working with large libraries, browsing the iTunes Store, preparing to sync with iPod or iPhone, and optimizing photos for syncing.

In addition, iTunes 8.1 provides many other improvements and bug fixes, including:

• Supports syncing with iPod shuffle (3rd generation).
• Allows friends to request songs for iTunes DJ.
• Adds Genius sidebar for your Movies and TV Shows.
• Improves performance when downloading iTunes Plus songs.
• Provides AutoFill for manually managed iPods.
• Allows CDs to be imported at the same sound quality as iTunes Plus.
• Includes many accessibility improvements.
• Allows iTunes U and the iTunes Store to be disabled separately using Parental Controls.

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

In Airport Utility, manually update your access point’s configuration, and then select the Music tab. On this tab, you can set the name of your remote speakers. After your Airport restarts, you will see the new remote speaker name appear in iTunes.

I say supposedly exciting, because in the end, the developer lost out on a sale. I was unable to purchase this product when I wanted to. What is the point of having an instant delivery platform such as the App Store, when I ultimately cannot purchase items? Along with all of the other issues the iTunes App Store seems to exhibit, this is one the most egregious, as I am unable to fulfill my needs for instant gratification (no matter how hard I try). Oh, and I’d like to be able to use my Shopping Cart for Apps at some point also.

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The latest issue?  The “Shopping Cart” functionality of iTunes.  Since the inception of the App Store, the “Shopping Cart” has not been enabled for purchases of iPhone/iPod Touch applications.  Why?  Who knows.  Someone at Apple has just been lazy I suppose.

It would appear that today that functionality has been enabled, but of course, it simply does not work.  I want to update my applications.  I want to see the improvements to Twitterific for myself (and not just read about them in a review on TUAW).  Apple does not want to see this happen.  I click the “Get Update” button in iTunes.  iTunes teases me, telling me the item has been added to my cart.  I rush to my cart to hit the “Buy Now” button, and…

Nothing.  My cart is empty.  I return to the App Store, clicking “Get Update” once more.  iTunes whines as it tells me the item is already in my cart.  Which cart?  Surely they don’t mean the empty cart that my iTunes client actually presents me with?

As with all things Apple, this will most likely be tweaked and fixed within a few hours, then all will be forgiven.  I will just have to sulk until then.

The error reads:

Due to a problem with the iTunes Store, your store credit balance is temporarily unavailable for use in purchasig music; you may continue purchasing using a different method of payment.

Way to go Apple.  And to think, I was finally starting to think things were coming together and then yet another infrastructure issue appears.