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DigiTimes has an article listing Apple's suppliers for the new iPhone 3.0, expected to ship sometimes in June/July. If you like to gamble on the stock market, I guess it would be the right time to buy some of these stocks...

For those of you who follow this blog, you already know that me and my fiance are in Costa Rica for a couple weeks. For those of you who don't follow the blog, well, now you know...

Costa Rica is a brautiful country. It's very green, even though it is currently the dry season. Animals here are nothing you are familiar with if like me, you live in the States. The most common animal in Costa Rica is the iguana. They are everywhere. Another animal that you see less often than you hear is the howling monkey.

Howling monkeys are little monkeys that kinda look cute when you see them laying down on the branch of a tree but God knows how annoying they are at night.

So Tina and I are staying in nice little cabins in Manuel Antonio. The cabins are pretty much on the beach, a few trees surrounding us. In brief, it's a paradisiac place.

The problem comes at night when the monkeys start howling. It is such a lound noise that it will wake you up. Howler monkeys are actually considered the loudest land animal. Tina is a real positive person. She always see the good side of things. So when the monkeys started howling in the middle of the night, she said to me I should embrace the howling instead of just going nuts as I was.

Freaking out on things is just the way I operate. I am working on it but I still have much progress to make... So it's about 3am and the monkeys are howling like crazy. I am in the room, looking throught the window trying to figure out where they are. It's dark out so I can't see anything. I am so freaking pissed at these monkeys that prevent me from having a good night sleep after such an exhausting surfing day.

Then all the sudden, I have a brilliant idea. I grab my iPhone and launch the most annoying app known to man: Sound Grenade. It annoys everyone I know in less than 10 seconds, so maybe it's gonna work on these monkeys.

Right on!!! I started the annoying sound right in the middle of a howl and the monkey stopped right away. I then opened the door to get closer to them and I heard 2 or 3 of them moving from tree to tree. Mission accomplished! The monkeys moved to another area. I could still hear them but they were very far away and the sound was much more bearable. I went back to sleep and had a peaceful night.

It's a very stupid story but I am so glad I had this the Sound Grenade app with me.

Do you have any story about how an iPhone app saved your butt? If so, share it with us in the comments :)

Hey everyone, I wanted to write a quick post to let you know why the blog hasn't been updated for quite a while. Me and my fiance are in Costa Rica for a couple weeks and the internet connection is very limited here. Today is actually the first time I found a reliable internet connection that can get me on Gmail in less than 10 minutes... Yeahh!!!

So, for those who care, we have started a blog called Traveling Puffins where we try to tell some of our travel stories. We're in Costa Rica for the wedding of my friend Michael, but most importantly, we're here for surfing!

The water is warm, the waves are good, and the beer is cold ;)

I really want to apologize for my lack of posting but I'm sure you understand the situation.

I checked my RSS feed reader and I have 774 articles in there I haven't read yet... I'll have some serious catch up to do when I get back...

Alright friends, time to go back.

Pura vida!

The following is a guest post by Mike Damian from midVentures.com, a Chicago-based tech firm who developed the Landmark Finder app for iPhone.

How often do you find yourself with time to kill and nothing to do? How would you like to take your friends and loved-ones on a memorable weekend getaway without spending lots of money?

Landmark Finder is an app that geo-locates your iPhones position and displays relevant landmarks on a Google map or list form. We use Landmark Finder all the time to:

Landmark Finder covers the entire US including: New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Austin, Philadelphia, Orlando, Miami, San Francisco, San Jose, Detroit, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, and many more cities!

Landmark Finder is perfect for weekend getaways, layovers at airports, people who often take business trips, who knows, you might even learn something about the city you live in!

We also plan on aggressively updating the app with social bookmarking features, the ability for people to add landmarks and have the crowds approve them, and other social features when iPhone OS3 comes out.

Landmark Finder is available from the App Store for $0.99, so think about checking it out, and keep your eyes peeled for a feature-rich update in the future.