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As I look back over the first half of 2010 and (wincing, with one eye closed and one on the ledger), review my finances, I have to say that my iPhone was the year’s investment I’m most thoroughly delighted by.

Before my iPhone, I was spending nearly just as much on a monthly plan for a much crappier phone, with limited texting and no internet usage. Why? Because I was afraid to take the leap. But then I did it. I climbed to the top of the high rock and leaped. Then I swam around, blissed out, for a while, checking my email any old time, texting to my heart’s content. Then I started shopping. Hello accessories for iPhone!

And now, my poor wallet! All I want to do is buy accessories for iPhone these days. (Is my wallet feeling overextended or left out?)

Lately when I buy accessories for iPhone, I’m ape for apps. Camera apps, recipe apps, map apps, games! Especially games!

iPhone games make waiting for the subway a million times more tolerable. I’ve discovered this super fun game called Crazy Shapes. You should buy it for yourself (the great thing about the accessories for iPhone known as apps is they’re generally just $.99 a pop), but I’ll give you this hint: circus Alaska.

Circus Alaska. Am I right, or am I right?

A new phone technology called Swype aims to change the way people type on cell phones. As keyboards are becoming more touch friendly, the creator of the T9 text application is pulling out a new model.

Like T9, Swype limits the movements a finger must make in order to increase phone input capacity. It guesses which word is being spelled through the patterns and pauses a finger makes. Spacing and punctuation is automatic, while capitalization and double letters are registered with a momentary pause or slight movement. They also, like Google, eventually plan to unveil a new voice recognition feature that will allow people to communicate more efficiently.

Although Swype doesn’t yet have a contract with Apple, it plans to use these accessories for iPhone to release soon.  Seven phones already have the application and more will continue to add it through the summer.

This new technology is part of the trend towards computerizing cell phones. While accessories for iPhone and wireless cell phone accessories continue to multiply, there is an ever increasing amount of new technology.  All this is great news for consumers, who can’t get enough of the latest, and most time reducing tools, so visit www.EMallGroup.com to see what’s hip.

In our internet heavy age, there are ways to stay connected when away from work, in the wild, and at home. Consuming media on our smartphones and tablet computers is becoming increasingly commonplace, but many are asking at what cost?

Reactions to quick informational bursts are an evolutionary response that allowed our ancestors to react to threats and dangers. In these situations, dopamine is released in the brain. This release of dopamine can be very addictive. When multitaskers and heavy media consumers don’t have access to information or their attentions engaged, they feel bored.

This stimulation sensitive part of the brain is different from that which uses old information to understand new problems. It becomes increasingly difficult to turn off the sensational part of the brain when you need to focus and decide about long term goals. For example, in our ancestors these parts of the brain would trigger the differences between stimuli that hint at a snowstorm and how to stay warm during the storm.

That said, certain technology can help you with occupational tasks. Accessories for GPS and wireless cell phone accessories for example, can be used in this way. But when accessories for iPhone and other wireless cell phone accessories become attached to you, it can be difficult to do without them. The lesson: technological moderation is important.

All Dad’s love gadgets. It’s just how they are – there’s something in their brain that is triggered when there is an easier or newer, more efficient way to do something. So when their special days come every year – birthday, and Father’s Day – it’s important to get Dad something that he’ll like. At EmallGroup.com there is a Father’s Day Sale that features heavily discounted items. Plus, there’s free shipping on orders greater than $125.

Maybe your Dad wants some accessories for iPhone, maybe you want to buy digital picture frames, maybe its wireless cell phone accessories you think he’d like – whatever it is, you can be sure to find it on www.EMallGroup.com at a heavily discounted price.

Just imagine it, your Dad wakes up and has a beautiful new digital camera: the expression on his face will be complete surprise giving way to pleasure. You can spend the whole day taking pictures together, and the memories you make will be forever documented using the camera that you bought him for Father’s Day 2010.

Don’t wait around, Father’s Day is Sunday. I’m not even talking about the shipping –  with deals like these, products are flying off of web shelves.

Next week, AT&T; plans to change its service for smart phones, cutting prices from $30 per month for unlimited usage to $25 month for 2 gigabytes and $15 for 200 megabytes of data transference. Part of their reason for this switch is that few users, approximately 3%, account for 40% of the company’s entire data transference. AT&T; believes these few users bog down the entire network.

New York and San Francisco are two cities that suffer specifically from this problem. Many users complain about poor service. Accessories for iPhone are still expected to generate large revenue because as the phones are being used less for calling and more for data, they experience more general use. Today, AT&T; will also begin allowing new accessories for iPhone, namely, one called tethering for an extra $20 per month that makes an iPhone into a modem.

You can expect smart phones and wireless cell phone accessories to continue drifting towards this direction, as the internet, television, music, movies, and phone calls are used increasingly on the same device. AT&T; hopes that this new plan will also sway more people towards smart phone and data usage. For those of us who still just use our phones to talk and text, this is good news.