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Mashable has a post called Fring Delivers the Most Impressive VoIP and IM Client for iPhone so Far. That “so far” is very important here. Fring is another “sign up for our account and sign up for your other IM and Skype accounts through us” services, so it’s not a pure Skype client. Also, it [...]

Let’s see how my predictions for today’s Apple event stack up…
Evidently, Steve Jobs’ kicked off today’s announcements by referencing the 17-page Steve Jobs’ obituary that Bloomberg mistakenly ran a couple of weeks back with a slide reading “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
Detailed live reporting can be found on Engadget, but in the [...]

It’s one of the more expensively priced items on the App Store, but BeatMaker (direct iTunes link; BeatMaker Official site) is a steal at $19.99 for anyone who has ever wanted an Akai MPC2000. I’ve just tinkered with it for a few hours, but it is by far the coolest and most engaging original application [...]

I’ve been digging into all the new iPhone apps I can get my hands on (mostly free apps, although I have grabbed a few for $$$) and I have some observations about the clear winners out there that every iPhone owner should have on his/her phone, as well as what you should avoid. So, I’m [...]

Yes! It worked! Now if I could only get it to upload to S3 rather than to my server….

Wow. This is pretty cool Wish it worked in landscape mode, too. I can even add live pictures from the camera or my photo library. Check out these screenshots of the app in action.
Update: Oops. Looks like I have to configure something server-side for the picture upload to work correctly. It tried to upload to [...]

So you have the new 2.0 software installed and you’ve thrown a bunch of applications from the App Store on your iPhone. Tell us: what’s on your iPhone? Here’s a (already slightly outdated) set of screenshots of what is on my iPhone (the first of 4 screens is pictured above).
In case you didn’t know how [...]

Friday before this past Friday, I returned home from a friend’s birthday party and was browsing around online before bed. I found a forum on AT&T where several people noted that they’d upgraded to 2.0 with no problem whatsoever even though they were first-generation iPhone owners who had originally signed up on AT&T’s no contract [...]

Those of you who follow me on Twitter, or who read the sidebar of this blog, know that I’ve had a rather unfun week with a non-functional iPhone due to Apple and AT&T confusion after the iPhone 2.0 update. Thankfully, it was all finally resolved yesterday, when a very helpful tech at AT&T was able [...]

No.
I like my iPhone’s current non-contract pay as you go plan with AT&T, thank you very much. I do hope, however, that someone releases an activation tool so that I can upgrade to iPhone 2.0 without having to spend hours on the phone with AT&T to get the phone reactivated. All those new iPhone apps [...]

What would Shakespeare (*) do?
To 3G or not to 3G: that is the question.
Whether ’tis nobler after July 11th to suffer
The contracts and entrapments of outrageous carriers,
Or to take arms against locked platforms,
And by jailbreaking end them?
Seriously, though, with a free update to iPhone 2.0 software around the corner for all current iPhone (*) owners [...]

We’re finding all the great links we can find having to do with the keynote here: Steve Jobs WWDC 2008 Keynote. Lots of cool apps for the iPhone, MobileMe moving Apple to the cloud for $99 a year (replacing .Mac). Streaming video here:

Related reading:
iPhone App Store (*), iPhone 3G (*), MobileMe (*), iPhone Applications (*), [...]

So if you’ve done all the fun stuff, like install Installer.app on your iPhone, you can now record video on it. The video tends to look and sound like this:

Bad news: the app found here isn’t freeware, so you’ll have to spend some $$$ on it if you want to keep using it. Also, the [...]

I’m downloading the iPhone SDK (*) right now. I was swamped today and barely got to follow any of today’s news, but I did get a few updates throughout the day from the tech Guides on Mahalo helping build the iPhone SDK (*)-related pages and from watching all the twitters floating past from friends and [...]

I’ve always thought about what my perfect gadget would be, and I think we’re getting closer and closer to it, simply because I have several devices now which approach the ideal.
So here are the things needed for a perfect gadget:
1. Always-on connectivity
2. Sustainable power (preferably self-powering through solar-panels or a built in hand-crank like the [...]

So, now that Gmail finally gave me IMAP access (THANKS, GOOGLE!), I have a pretty awesome system setup. IMAP access via iPhone to my main (Gmail Apps), secondary (.Mac address), and tertiary (old regular Gmail account) email accounts. I set up READLATER folders in all three accounts, so now whenever I’m on my iPhone and [...]

My Gmail IMAP *finally* kicked in. w00t!
Now I have all kinds of IMAP goodness on the iPhone without having to forward random threads to my .Mac address.

This looks cool, but it isn’t working for me: Official Gmail Blog: Updates from Google Docs and Google Calendar

The Google Calendar team, along with the mobile team, released an upgrade to the Calendar interface on the iPhone. It is now tailored for the iPhone, and you can now see your different calendars in distinctive colors. [...]

So, my little-over-a-week-old iPhone has developed a problem. The casing on the right side near the bottom of the bugger has begun to warp. I noticed it when I was browsing the web this morning and the black little cover at the bottom was clicking slightly. Here’s a picture:

If you go to the picture page [...]

I decided to start a morning ride podcast, that I’ll be recording during my morning bike ride to work. It’s short and I’ll only do these whenever I have something to talk about. This morning, I talked about riding my bike to work, moving to LA, the iPhone, the Helio Ocean, Erica Sadun’s Voice Recorder [...]