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I Dig It is an iPhone/iPod Touch application by InMotion Software, LLC. The concept is very simple. You are the operator of Farmer Lewis’ digging machine. He converted an old bulldozer into a high tech digging machine to collect valuable items from under his farm. “I Dig It” is not a hard game to learn. Game play is simple and the controls are very easy to figure out.

The game can be challenging at times. There are various modes that I found to be fun variations. In all of the modes you have to manage fuel, temperature, and damage while searching for diggins. You bring your diggins back to the farm house to sell them. You then use that money to buy fuel, and upgrade your digger.

I’m currently addicted to this game. It is perfect for when I’m waiting for my daughter at her music lesson, or even a short break during my lunch hour. The artwork is very nice. It is as good as anything that I’ve seen on the iPhone so far. And the game is challenging enough get my attention for a while, but not so hard that it is frustrating. I’m not a hard core video gamer. I like video games, but they are certainly not a main focus in my life. This game is a good game for me. You hard core gamers would probably get bored with it pretty quick. It is a good game for the rest of us.

The full version, v1.2 at the time of this writing, costs $2.99. The free version, I Dig It (Lite), gives you a nice little preview of the game. I think it is worth the $3 dollars to get the full version.

Developer: InMotion Software, LLC

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch, OS 2.0 or later.

Did you turn off your iPhone? If you didn’t, is it dead yet? I didn’t think so.

There is a lot of buzz on the Internet about the demonstration by Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner of the iPhone virus at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. First, they didn’t report that the virus is out there in the wild. They demonstrated it at the conference. OK, I’m sure those two guys are much smarter than me. I’m not a hacker. I don’t create viruses. I’m not even a programmer. I’m just a guy who loves working on his computer, and now on the iPhone too.

Your iPhone, Palm, Blackberry, etc… they are computers. Just as that machine sitting on your desk is a computer. Since the late 1960s or early 1970s, there have been computer viruses. You know what? As long as there are computers, there will be computer viruses. It doesn’t matter. The really smart people who make the computer systems will do their best to make their systems virus proof, and there will always be other really smart people who do their best to find vulnerabilities. It is a cycle that will keep going, and going, and going.

Now, there is even a report about how an attacker can conduct a “Man-in-the-Middle” attack against Web sites with Extended Validation (EV) Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates.

And, yet another about a vulnerability in Mac OS X.

The only computer that is truly safe from a virus is off, and unplugged. That computer doesn’t do you much good. So for now, I’m not shutting down my iPhone. I’m not shutting down my computer. If I get virus, then so be it.