Waking up in the morning is difficult--which is why we sleep until noon-but if you need to get up with the sun Waken Shake ($.99, available here) is the way to do it. This clever alarm clock app demands that you give your iPhone a shake to stop the alarm, ensuring that you're up and moving. There's a snooze button, six displays, and five alarm sounds.

Free Translator (available here) provides an interface to the free Google Translate API for many languages. Choose from Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polis, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, and Vietnamese. When you come across something foreign that you can't read, you'll have quick access to an English translation.

Delta Airlines has begun rolling out an in-flight Wi-Fi service called Gogo. The broadband Internet access, first available on shuttles between New York, Boston and Washington, will be available on most flights in the continental United States later this year.

The agreement with the service provider, Aircell, includes plans to equip the Northwest fleet (recently folded into Delta as a subsidiary) late in the year

 

If you just can't stand the down time when you're up in the air, you may want to route yourself on Delta for upcoming flights. But there's no reason to think the airline will be alone in this field for long.

The retailer hopes to cash in on cheap iPhones -- assuming shoppers don't mind buying them used. To sell re-furbished 8GB iPhones for $149 and 16GB models for $249; got to sign on the dotted line for a two-year contract with AT&T, of course. New iPhones go for $199 and $299 at Best Buy. Get the full story here at InternetNews.com.

Wireless memory card company Eye-Fi has been active at Macworld with Monday's announcement of an iPhone app that sends pictures directly from the phone to a PC or Web site. You can send photos to several photo-sharing or social-networking sites.

The app is currently in development and will be a free download from the Apple App Store.

A $79-$129 Eye-Fi wireless card is required to use the service. It's available from retailers such as Apple, Best Buy, and Amazon.com. To receive an email alert when the application is available from the App Store, see here.

Soonr, a mobile services company based in Campbell, Calif., has come out with a cloud computing app for the Apple iPhone. The Soonr service, available for free via the Apple App Store, allows you to back up documents from Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other applications and access them on your iPhone via the cloud.

According to Soonr, access speed is fast because the files are stored in the cloud rather than on the iPhone. Soonr even supports remote printing from the iPhone to a co-worker's PC via the cloud.

The company says a full version will be available through partners in the United States and Europe early this year.

You can see a video demonstration of Soonr for the iPhone here.

With Apple making its final appearance at the annual trade show, what will the future hold for the show?

The prospect of an Apple-less Macworld in the future hasn't dampened the rumor mill from speculating about what Apple has on tap for this year's conference. These include the possibility of a new Mac Mini and iMacs, a 17-inch MacBook Pro, an update to the Mac OS and - last but not least - the much-talked about iPhone Nano.

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You're a visual person, so visually organize your iPhone contacts with Peeps ($1.99, available here). It pulls photos from your iPhone's address book to create an animated photo album. You can either view your contacts vertically as a scrolling page of photos or horizontally in an album art view. Tap the contact you want to view their information.

What will you do differently this year? Save more? Help the environment? Have more fun? This year, keep track of your resolutions on your iPhone, so that you can follow them through the weeks. New Year Resolutions - 2009 (available here) comes with a pre-loaded list of resolutions you can choose from, or you can create your own.

Steve Jobs seeks to quash a new spate of rumors, revealing that he's been suffering a hormonal imbalance but remains fit to continue at Apple. Get the full story here at InternetNews.com.