Namco has released Inspector Gadget, its latest game for the iPhone and iPod touch. Based on the 1980’s animated TV series of the same name, the platform-style game allows users to play as Inspector Gadget, Penny, and Brain as they travel across multiple locations, utilizing vehicles including the Gadgetmobile and Gadget ‘Copter to recover the royal jewels and defeat Dr. Claw. Inspector Gadget is available now from the App Store and sells for $5.

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Boxee, everyone’s favorite open-source home media software, has received a much anticipated enhancement. Whereas users who wished to use Boxee with a remote control were relegated to the overly-simple, standard Apple remote, the call for a more substantial remote has been answered with this latest iPhone app.

The free boxee iPhone remote app connects to Boxee via Wi-Fi and utilizes the iPhone’s touch screen in an interesting way, providing a Buttons and Gesture mode. The Buttons mode simply provides the standard up, down, left, right, OK and back buttons on the iPhone screen along with a volume slider and stop/pause buttons.

The Gesture mode, however, turns the iPhone into a touchpad in which you drag an icon around the screen. The selections on your TV will change according to the direction you drag on the iPhone. When you get to a selection you want, a simple tap on the iPhone completes the process.

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If you ever dreamed of becoming an illustrator until you actually tried putting pen or brush to paper, PhotoArtist ($1.99 via the iTunes store) is your consolation prize. This $1.99 (direct) iPhone app will turn your photos into images resembling bold and beautiful stylized drawings, paintings, or illustrations in various fine-art and commercial styles. I found that, at their best, PhotoArtist’s effects were among the most appealing produced by the iPhone apps I’ve examined. What’s more, you can easily share your creations with other iPhone users free via the Big Canvas PhotoShare site. But if you want to print the images—particularly if you want to use them as artwork—you may be disappointed. Their resolution is low—barely that of the iPhone screen itself.

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HFD Calculator app can tell you precisely, in either feet, inches, meters, or centimeters, the point where the hyper focal distance lies. The app uses algorithms based on your camera type, lens aperture, and focal length to come up with the exact spot. It’s up to you to have your camera on a tripod and to manually focus—neither of which your iPhone can help with (yet…)—and then click away.

HFD Calculator has a very simple-to-use interface. Choose your camera type from more than 150 options, enter the aperture and the focal length, and the HFD appears at the top of the screen. The app very quickly recalculates as your parameters change.

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This is the spot for live coverage of Apple’s iPhone 3.0 event later today from Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., which is scheduled to kick off at 10 a.m. PDT.

Apple plans to preview the new operating system and discuss a new software development kit, according to an invitation it sent out last week. We also might finally see cut-and-paste, MMS, and any number of long-awaited iPhone features with the new release.