Happy April everybody, It’s time for this week’s Roundup!

This week, I See whats up with Skype, take a look at what Twitter is up to,  play with the new Digg Bar, and a reminder about the Nintendo DSi.
Take a look, after the jump!

This week I have four stories for you, Let’s get started.

1:  From : Endgadget and Gizmodo
“Skype for iPhone now live in US” and “Skype For iPhone Now Available in the US, Has VoIP over 3G With 3.0 Firmware”
Monday, March 30 and Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Skype has released their highly anticipated iPhone application. The app was announced earlier in the week and was released a few minutes early, just before midnight EDT on March 30th. People who were using the app found out that you were able to make calls over 3G if they were running the iPhone 3.0 Beta. Everyone else is stuck to only over wi-fi. Call quality was reported to be as good or better than normal cell connection when calling over wi-fi. It’s currently the number one free app in the app store, and TechCrunch has reported that the Skype app has been downloaded over one million times in two days. Click here to jump into the app store and download it, if you haven’t already (iTunes Required). I;ve downloaded it and played around with it a little, and the GUI looks really nice. I have not made a call since I only have an iPod touch, but from reports form other people, it sounds pretty good. Skype says they will also have a video feature, eventually.

2:  From : Twitter Blog
Replies Are Now Mentions
Monday, March 30, 2009

Twitter has replaced the @replies page with @you, also known @mentions. Instead of only displaying tweets that begin with your username, it will also show tweets that have your username anywhere in the message. This page will show up on your sidebar where @replies used to be, but it will now say @”you”, where “you” is your username. For example, mine would say @kjhobin, The iLife’s account would say @theilife. This feature was first introduced the the powertwitter firefox extension.

Don’t For get to follow The iLife on twitter, so you can always be notified of new articles! http://twitter.com/theilife

3:  From : ReadWriteWeb
Digg Launches New Toolbar – Makes Digging and Sharing Easier
Thursday, April 2, 2009

Digg, the social user generated news site, has released the Digg Bar today. The Digg bar will appear on Digg’s story links so that way you can easily digg and share stories, as well as share them with your friends. If you want to ever see the Digg bar, all you have to do is enter “digg.com/” in front of any URL, and the toolbar will automatically appear at the top of the page. It reminds we of the stumble upon toolbar, either way, it willmake digging stories easier.

4:  From : Nintendo World Newsletter
Nintendo DSi and Rhythm Heaven Launching April 5! (View the email here!)
Thursday, April 2, 2009

Nintendo has officially announced a release date for the DSi. According to their Nintendo World newsletter, it will be released on Sunday, April 5th, along with a new game Rhythm Heaven. The DSi will retail for $169.99. It will be available in black and light blue, and feature 2 cameras, improved wi-fi, and a SD card slot.

That’s it for this week, see you next week, right here at The iLife.

–Keith Hobin