The XBIZ Weekly Tech Watch

This week's Tech Watch includes tips on how to get the most out of an iPhone, along with sneak peeks at exciting new startups around the Internet.

• Users who like to send text messages on their iPhones may have noticed that the device won't learn profanity. A blogger discovered a simple solution: Add swear words as contacts.

• Yahoo is testing out a new look for the advertisements it displays with its search results.

Infectious lets users design their own decals for cars and other, smaller electronic devices.

SaveThePlanetAndWin.com is attempting to add an element of friendly competition to the world-saving business.

• YouTube appears to have added high-definition functionality to its videos while adding a lousy-looking search bar.

• A virus called Koobface is making the rounds on Facebook. It infects user profiles through messages with subject lines like “You look so funny on our new video.”

• Fashion plates may want to check out the new social-networking website StyleHop.

• Social-networking website NetLog.com offers integrated multiplayer games.

UserVoice.com lets websites collect user feedback with voice-recognition technology.

• Opera is preparing to roll out the latest version of its web browser.

• Mothers in the adult industry may want to visit a hot new social network called CircleOfMoms.com.

ClubCooee.com is a 3D instant-messaging service. That may be hard to imagine, so here's a YouTube demonstration.

• Users on the social media platform Boxee can now access NetFlix movies.

Smibs.com has entered a public beta-testing phase. The website offers networking and management services for office workers.

• Having trouble deciding what applications to add to your iPhone? Appalanche is an automated application recommendation engine, and here are Gizmodo's top new iPhone apps of the week.

• Adobe is working on a web time machine that's in the very early stages of development. Like the Wayback Machine, it will let users see web pages at different points in time. Adobe's service will even let users see specific parts of a web page at different points in time. A browser plugin for this new service is somewhere in the future.

• A desperate Blockbuster is going to start offering 99 cent rentals.

• This one is for ‘80s movie geeks: Some enterprising car enthusiasts built a DeLorean right out of "Back to The Future."

• The U.S. Army is trying to give TiVo to the troops, but they're not going about it the right way.

• Samsung has a new webcam sensor that can handle 720p of information.

• Intel wants to help conserve energy by letting people harvest power for their own personal devices.

• Space fans will lament that NASA's next mission to Mars has been delayed until 2011.

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