It’s my birthday today, and so I’m going to use the Sync blog as my pedestal, if I may, to highlight some of my favourite tech toys at this given point in time.

I admit it. I need help. I’m terribly addicted to the Apple App Store. I’m not just there daily, but find myself looking for downloadable digital diversions at least five times a day, be it new tools, games or other handy (or silly) applications. This one, however, is one of my favourites.

You love your slender, touchscreen-enabled iPod touch and rely upon it heavily for music, photos, videos, games and apps. And even though it’s not an iPhone, you can use it to place free phone calls. Here’s how.

The revolutionary display technology that has been used to make eBooks as easy to read as the printed page, is now showing up in other devices.

Even though there are already more than 25,000 applications available for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, more appear in Apple’s App Store every day. Some are amazingly useful. Others, well, you decide.

Sick of all the Twitter hype? Join the club. Check out this humourous video, Twitter Dat, which reinforces how useless it is to “tweet” everything you’re doing. Do people really care what you’re having for breakfast or how regular your bowel movements are? Enjoy.

Backbone magazine runs a gadget section in every issue. Those are small overview pieces; over here in blogland I am going to start highlighting notable devices with a more thorough review. First up: the Parrot Minikit Chic Bluetooth car speakerphone.

Exciting news for those who have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Palm’s latest smartphone, the Palm Pre… it’s coming soon.

Love murder mysteries? Check out these short interactive head-scratchers for the iPod touch and iPhone.

I guess one would expect the wildly popular Twitter to be mentioned a couple of times at a conference dedicated to social media, but Holy Moses, this is ridiculous.