Speech-to-text translation isn’t a new idea, but Dragon Dictation for the iPhone turns the concept into a functional reality. The app makes it easy for you to dictate notes, e-mails or text messages, which are then instantly converted to text. With a click of the button, you can go on to send your dictated text via e-mail or SMS, or to save it to the clipboard. Best of all, Dragon Dictation is completely free (for a limited time).

The application itself has a minimalist design: When you launch it, you’ll be able to hit a button and record your dictation — and that’s it. After the initial voice-to-text transcription, you can also edit via text or voice, replace poorly transcribed words with suggested alternatives and select words or phrases to delete.

Dragon Search - Search the entire web with your voice

The app’s design is very simple to use and lightening fast. After you launch it, simply click the red button to say your search query. Hit “done” and you’ve just searched practically the entire web with your voice. Results are displayed on single page views per search engine, and you can use your finger to quickly scroll through the horizontal toolbar to arrive at your destination of choosing.

In my research I came up with another rumor, which is very interesting… Stymied in its effors to bring Flash Player to the iPhone, Adobe has come up with a workaround that one observer has called an “end-around:”  the new Flash Professional CS5 allows Flash applications to be compiled as stand-alone iPhone apps.

A man named John Loiacono, head of Adobe’s Creative Solutions unit, announced at the AdobeMax conference earlier this week. said

“We are ecstatic to announce that we’re enabling you to use your Flash development tools to build applications and compile them to run natively on the iPhone.”

A lot of people thought different about it and the Apple CEO Steve Jobs disparaged Flash at last year’s Apple shareholder meeting, saying that the multimedia platform “performs too slow to be useful” on the iPhone. “There’s this missing product in the middle. It just doesn’t exist,” he told the shareholders.

The beta release for Flash Professional CS5 is said to be coming at the end of this year, so lets see if all this mess is true and will it actually be here finally.

Could it be… Flash and iPhone Apps ? or Flash in general on the iPhone? and what about Flash CS5 Design or Master Suite ?

The kind of experience you’d experience from flash and the kind of experience you’d expect from the iPhone… It’s true! And there are already some Apps in the store to prove it. check this link direct from ADOBE Labs: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/#demo and check out the video.

So… if your still asking When will Adobe Flash Platform tooling support building applications for iPhone? A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 including support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year. Sign up to be notified when the beta is available.

And… here’s the Skinny “…Flash Professional CS5 will enable developers to build applications for iPhone that are installed as native applications. Users will be able to access the apps after downloading them from Apple’s App Store and installing them on iPhone or iPod touch.” and… “Flash Player uses a just-in-time compiler and virtual machine within a browser plug-in to play back content on websites. Those technologies are not allowed on the iPhone at this time, so a Flash Player for iPhone is not being made available today.”

The app will take a little getting use to with the gestures, but one you do, it’s fast, slick and pretty powerful. Click here to download it from iTunes. (it’s free remember!) Oh, you’ll need a photoshop.com account (also free) which allows you to instantly upload or download photos from your cloud account. Just another one of the great features!

Introducing the uQuery App Store search engine for easily and quickly locating the perfect iPhone app. It refines the search by price range, release date, and category but really needs a second tier of refinement (top rated, most comments, most downloads .etc) to make it stand out. I’m sure as more of these pop-up the feature set will increase in pretty quickly!

Find it here : http://www.uquery.com/