Tech Accessory Holiday Gift Idea Day 4: Powermat 2X with Powercube

Here's the easy way to keep your phones and gadgets charged without all the mess of wires.

Keep two devices fully charged at all times with the convenience of this two position charging station. The included Powercute lets you charge hundreds of devices right out of the box (with 8 included tips)

Great for the home, office to to take on the road.

Get it for this great price.

Garageband Now Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

Apple today announced that GarageBand, its breakthrough music creation app, is now available for iPhone and iPod touch users. Introduced earlier this year on iPad, GarageBand uses Apple's revolutionary Multi-Touch interface to make it easy for anyone to create and record their own songs, even if they've never played an instrument before.

"GarageBand on iPad has been a big hit and we think customers will love using it on their iPhone or iPod touch," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "The innovative Multi-Touch interface combined with Smart Instruments makes it easy to create great sounding music, even if you've never studied music or played an instrument before."

GarageBand features a collection of fun Touch Instruments that sound great and make it easy for beginners or experienced musicians to play and record keyboards, guitars, drums and basses in a wide variety of styles. Smart Instruments now allow you to choose from an extensive new library of custom chords so you can play and strum along with your favorite songs.

You can plug your electric guitar into iPad, iPhone or iPod touch to play and record through classic amps and stompbox effects, or record your voice or any acoustic sound using the built-in microphone. GarageBand allows you to record and mix up to eight tracks and then share your finished song with friends or send it to your Mac(R) to keep working on it in GarageBand or Logic Pro.

GarageBand 1.1 for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is available on the App Store for $4.99 (US) to new users, or as a free update for existing GarageBand for iPad customers. GarageBand is a universal app that runs on iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPod touch (3rd & 4th generation models.)

IPad Free App of the Week: U.S. Open Tennis

It's time for the final Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year, The U.S. Open in New York.

Don't feel left out of the action with the U.S. Open IPhone and iPad app for free. The app will give you more than just the scores and draws. Get the order of play for each and every day, behind the scenes interviews, and free streaming U.S. Open radio broadcasts you can listen to. Never heard a radio broadcast of a tennis match? You definitely need to check it out.

If you are attending the Open, the app has tips and info for what you might find on the grounds.

The app is free, take advantage of it.

Facebook now has a Check-in Feature

On the heels of Foursquare and Gowalla, Facebook now has a check-in feature of its own.

Facebook executives on Wednesday announced the launch of Facebook Places, which -- similar to services such as Foursquare and Gowalla -- will allow people to use the GPS on their mobile phones to let friends know exactly where they are.

Facebook Places is available immediately in the United States through the latest version of Facebook's iPhone app and through the company's site for advance mobile devices.

Foursquare has become the clear leader or check-in apps and a darling of tech media, even as it looks for ways to turn a profit. Boasting a half-million users at the start of SXSW, Foursquare doubled that in about a month then needed only another three months to reach 2 million users.

In regards to check-in apps, users "check in" at restaurants, bars, movie theaters or just about anywhere else they visit. The idea is twofold -- to let friends know what you're up to while racking up points and earning virtual badges in the application's gaming element.

The potential for Facebook Places is huge.  With a half-billion users, if Facebook doesn't blow it, they should be able to take this area over.  We''ll have to see what early reviews look like and how fast it starts taking off.