As we spend more and more of our computing time on iPhones, more and more people are looking for ways to lock individual locations on their iPhones (nee iOS devices).

Because, there’s times you hand your phone to a friend or family member or client, to review some files, and you’d like to know they won’t accidently see text messages, financial details or other private files.

What’s to be done? For now, Apple doesn’t offer any case by case locking feature for apps on the iPhone, so all you can do, is choose Apps that protect your data in a safe and secure way.

Mint for example, which watches your bank accounts and alerts you to important things, like large deposits or withdrawals, fees and the like, requires you to use a passcode lock to opne the apps itself, a brilliant move.

Gv Mobile+ by Sean Kovacs, as of today offers the ability to lock that app in a similar way, so that all communication inside your google voice account is locked to prying eyes, this is an example of a third party app offering more functionality, than the native app (Apple’s Phone App) which offers no privacy at all (hand your unlocked iPhone to someone and they can peruse allyour call history and text messaging). This fact, that a third party app can provide more functionality than the built in App is a great feature of the iPhone, and the iPhone clones that have come out since, and worth a discussion all of it’s own.

Find My iPhone is an iOS location tracking service, free, if you own the most recent gen of iOS device.

Learn more about it at http://www.apple.com/iphone/find-my-iphone-setup/

It’s a great way to feel secure about the data you’re storing on the iPhone, it’s readilying becoming the computer that people use most of the day: http://mg.siegler.usesthis.com/

Setting up Fstream  on your  iPhone to   listen to   twit  is no    easy   feat.

Using Fstream is quite simple, click on favorites in the lower  part of the  screen, then click the   small label tagged “preset” in the upper right  corner.

Now to get Twit.am on our  iPhones… and click the Edit button in the   upper right   hand side  of  the favorites menu screen.

Click the  Add Webradio  station button, Give your new favorite any  name you  want, and the  URL http://twit.am:8000/listen

Click save  in  the   upper  right.

Clcik Done in the  upper left

Return to your “Play”  Screen and tap the   station name  you  just dcreated.

Enjoy Leo, and  Merlin when he’s around! Where’s his  Fstream?

The iPhone turns on right out of the box, in fact, Apple ‘Pre-activates’ the Phone when you buy it from them in the US, they transfer your number from your old phone (usually) and you walk out the door bumping into people and trees as you gaze at the gorgeous screen full of colorful icons.

But the first real step to claiming the phone is connecting it to iTunes on your Mac or PC, when you do this, you’ll personalize your settings, most likely the default settings will be good, but you can go through the menu’s and tabs that show up in iTunes and select exactly which and how much music, video and podcasts are synched with your iPhone.

You can also turn on Contact, Calendar and email synching, which is really great, though, if you are a MobileMe (formerly called .Mac) user, then a far superior way to sync this information is through the “Cloud”, essentially through the Air or Internet, where no physical connection has to happen between your iPhone and computer. When using MobileMe to sync data, contacts and events you enter while on the road will be sent straight to the “Cloud”(technically speaking, an apple server on the internet) and then down to your various Macs, the data is in fact accessible through http://me.com, meaning you can always fetch your contacts phone numbers through a website that’s available 24 hours a day from any computer around the world.

If you have your own email server, say ‘billdavies@auburncom.com’, then you’ll be able to configure your iPhone to connect to this email account  very easily, you’ll need to ensure that you are taking advantage of IMAP on your mail server though, IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol) replaced POP(Post Office Protocol) about five years ago but is still rarely implemented on many web hosting plans, ask your service provider about it, or call us at AuburnCon for a meeting to evaluate your needs., IMAP allows your mails to be delivered to multiple devices and keep those multiple devices in Sync, this is so very essential when you have more than one device for checking email, receiving mail in two places and having those two places both know when a message has been Read, Flagged, Deleted or Replied To is both wonderful and absolutely essential, Read more about IMAP on www.imap.org/

Okay, now that the configuration and hard work is done, it’s time to have fun and get some great Applications from the App Store, here’s what we at AuburnCom like so Far:

Monkey Ball (entertains a child for ever!)

Enigmo (Entertains anyone for ever)

OmniFocus (Serious location based List making)

Things (Cool easy list making)

Shazam (Identify any song you hear playing around you!!!)

Midomi (Sing a song into the Mic to identify it!)

Texas Hold ‘Em (Apple Made Poker Game, enough said)

Inspired’s Karmic Cookie (Fun and Funny Fortune Cookie game)

NetNewsWire (Great News Reader)

Hanoi (the famous Hanoi Tower Puzzle, 64 discs is really hard)

Pandora (Wow)

Remote (Wow!)

Scrabble (Great)

YouNote (Good)

iWant (Good)

And that’s a good start with the iPhone, if you’ve comments about your own iPhone experience, leave a comment or email me.

Again, AuburnCom provides expert consultations at our spacious and very internet connected offices at 660 Alabama Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110, Call us on 415-871-9683 to make an appointment.

Hey Brendan,

Am I right in believing that one of the features of Leopard is that I can run Windows on my Mac.  I would love to be able to sync up my Blackberry with my Mac.  Could I run windows on it, and sync it up that way?

In a perfect world I’d have an iPhone, unfortunately AT&T does not have a North American plan (as Verizon does) and if I switch then I have to pay 20 cents a minute to Canada (about 25% of my calls) and 35 cents a minute roaming when I am there (about 5-6 times a year).  Not cool.

 

Have you tried the NetNewsWire application for the iPhone?

It’s awesome.

Subscribe to your favorite sites using RSS through an online (free) version at Newsgator.com, use the (Recently) Free Mac Desktop version of NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire on the iPhone will synchronize your subscription list and pull all those stories from all those sites (my iPhone is currently displaying 2367 stories unread!) to your iPhone for local reading, you can switch off all your wireless functions, put the iPhone in Airplane Mode and go into a nuclear bunker, the playa, or an airplane, and all those stories are there in full glory waiting to be read.

If you’re new to RSS here are some great RSS feeds to begin with:

The Macalope RSS Feed

Dilbert Comic Strip RSS Feed

“iPhone” ads on Craigslist RSS Feed

Why did I feature these feeds? One very big reason, all three offer ‘Full’ Syndication, the posts that come through the RSS feed are the entire subject, uncut! Other Rss feeds like the Nytimes, BBC and even our own SFgate offer only short clips of stories in the RSS feed, avoid those, stick with good full feeds and embrace papers and journals that offer such RSS feeds, my favorite paper and electronic journal: Wired

Try out NetNewsWire Today

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P.S. When you start getting too many feeds to handle on your iPhone, go to the newsgator website. Settings->Edit Locations->NetNewsWire iPhone/iPod-Touch — you can edit the feeds you get there! (thanks to davidbro)

A lot of folks love Google Talk over any other instan messanger, even Adium or iChat, because of a couple of features,

one, it works in your browser with no extra software,

two, it saves all your chats, and includes their text when you search through your emails

three, it has a neat “off the record” feature that disables item two, other software like ichat is either in “always record conversations” or “never record conversations”

Well, starting today, Google talk has a slick new webapp for the iphone that gives you all your Google talk benefits right to your iPhone or iPod touch, try it out here: google.com/talk

Some Cool new stuff on iTunes today: Wall-E Soundtrack, Celebrity Playlists  Star Trek, The Original series  and elsewhere: NBC has an iPhone optimized nbc.com page, go there from your iPhone or iPod touch and you can watch full episodes of The Office, 30 Rock and more… 

Well, grab NetNewsWire, always was the best Newsreader, then it graduated to V3.0 and became free! in two weeks, ther’ll be a free version for the iPhone that’ll sync up pretty ducking well.

From O2: 

Existing iPhone customers can upgrade early to the new 3G iPhone for free*To thank you for being an iPhone fan, we’re offering you an early upgrade to the brand new version when it launches on 11th July 2008. You won’t have to wait until the end of your existing contract, all you’ll need to do is agree to a new 18-month minimum term contract.*Best of all, the new 8GB iPhone won’t cost you a penny on our £45 and £75 Pay Monthly tariffs for iPhone. And it’s just £99 on our £35 tariff and new £30 tariff. This special early upgrade offer is only available online at o2.co.uk anytime from 11th July until 11th October 2008.Take a look at our new Pay Monthly tariffs for iPhone.Then just register your interest opposite and we’ll drop you a line in early July to tell you what you need to do to be one of the first to get your hands on the new 3G iPhone.Don’t need 2 iPhones!We want to make sure you find a good home for your existing iPhone once you upgrade. If you’ve a friend or family member already on an eligible O2 tariff, they’ll be able to transfer to one of our new tariffs for iPhone. If they’re not already with O2 or on an eligible O2 tariff, they could get one of our new iPhone Pay & Go SIM cards.

This is so amazingly brilliant for customers, Apple and O2, the new phone is free, and, O2 will help you setup your old one for a friend really simply. Has there been a greener easier upgrade path ever before? Generally, it’s “toss your old phone in that ‘recycle’ can on your way out with your new Nokia, this is unprecedented, Congrats UK users, and I can see Irish, German and French users getting similar care…

Starting with today’s update to MAC OS X Leopard, 10.5.3, which should come down to your Mac automatically in the next week.

You’ll see an option in Address Book to sync your contacts with Google Contacts, this is really good news, as many client’s already are using a combination of Gmail’s great IMAP and Spam filtering combined with Apple Mail, the big issue was that Apple Mail, and your iPhone/iPod uses Mac’s own ‘Address Book’ (not to mention your iPhone and/or iPod’s contact list), wheras GMail relies on it’s own Contact database. 

Well rejoice, you can now synce the two of them up and have one unified list of your contacts accessible inside a browsear window, Apple Mail, your iPhone, iPod Touch or any other device that syncs with your Mac, Moto RazR springs to mind.

Details are here:  http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/05/mac-os-x-1053-sync-google-contacts.html
   

A former Apple executive has been appointed CEO of the premier Haptic technology developer Immersion Technology, this, and their board talking about how they’re in talks with Apple, is fueling talk of Haptic Technology coming to the iPhone.

Wanna know more about what this is? Check out the Youtube video with the lovely Veronica Belmont below:   

On Lewis Blacks excellent Carnegie Hall Performance (available from Amazon on CD or downloadable MP3!), jokes that while iPods are the size of credit cards and play music, they still haven’t created a good method to harness solar power, he jests “iPods are geting so small, pretty soon, you’ll just be wearing underwear and hear music playing in your ears!”And now, reports in MacWorld now say your clothing will soon be powering your electronics:  ”Professor explains Nanotech power for iPods“From the article:

“Wouldn’t it be great if you could walk down the street listening to your iPod or using your smartphone without ever worrying about the battery dying?Zhong Lin Wang, a professor and nanotechnology researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, says that within five years, you might be able to do just that. According to Wang, instead of using a battery to power phones, MP3 players and other portable devices, you could harvest the energy generated by the movement of your shirt. Yup, you read that right – a “power shirt,” which would provide users with a flexible, foldable and wearable power source.” 

Not extremely surprising! These devices are well suited to toting around the new HD Videos’s that iTunes is selling and renting!  

A company by the name of Newsgator make a bunch of solutions in relation to RSS, They make everything you need to create, publish and read Really Simple Syndication feeds from the biggest sites, like cnet.comand nyt.com.If you have Leopard, then Apple’s Mail program does a great job of aggregating feeds so you might be all set, if, however, you use more than one computer or cell phone for reading your RSS newsfeeds, then, you’ll need something which synchronizes across them and has a good interface. Enter NetNewsWire, currently a new Beta for Leopard is available here: http://nnwbeta.com, NetNewsWire is a very effective RSS reader designed for OS X, it synchronizes transparently across the internet, to ensure that your other Macs, and iPhones, and iPod Touch’s will all be aware and up to date on what stories you’ve read, flagged, marked etc. Give it a try!Screenshots below:   

In the spirit of our usual high quality recommendations, comes another great recommendation for a piece of software that runs transparently in the background on your Mac.   

It’s a great Password Manager that will start remembering all your passwords and form information after a quick two minute setup, as if that wasn’t enough, it’ll generate ultra strong passwords with a single click if you need them for future accounts, want more? okay, it’ll easily create new fake personalities and profiles for using on sites that you are wary of, not sure if this video sharing site is the real deal or not, then let 1  Password generate your alter ego’s information for it’s registration form. 

So, enough said, it’s a great Password Vault and Manager with great back end security and plugs into all three of your favorite Mac browsers, Safari, Firefox and Camino, so, if in two months you switch to(or back to) Safari from Firefox (which has it’s own password manager) you’ll still have all your bank passwords and user profiles, indeed, in two years if you switch to camino, all your profiles will come with you.

Oh, did I mention that it syncs all these passwords to your iPhone… just not enough room on the page for how great 1 Password is… 

1Password is available from http://1passwd.com/  for $29.99 with 100% money back guarantee, or, you can get a free copy for a limited time through a Macworld promotion from http://agilewebsolutions.com/promo/macgems.

Either way, enjoy it, you’ll love having your computer enter your passwords for you, and of course, it’s fully controllable with super master passwords for safety!

P.S There’s a version for your Palm Treo too! 

Fantastic News!

From Ars Technica:

The global data plan will be $59.99 per month for iPhone users, which will be added on top of your domestic iPhone plan. So if you already have an iPhone plan for $59.99 per month in the US, it’ll be another $59.99 on top of that to use this plan internationally. That’s a total of $119.98 per month (or for that particular month that you want to use it internationally).

An Apple certified evangelist is awaiting your phone call to help you get the most out of your Mac. Certified by Apple in OS X support, I provide consultations on Panther, Jaguar, Tiger and the amazing New Leopard operating system. Would you like it to do more for you? automate your calendar events, simplify your music collection, handle the party music for your elaborate home audio system.

or lets talk about video, I evangelise the Apple TV, apple’s great product that brings your entire iTunes library to your living room, your bedroom, in fact any rooms in fact you’d like to listen to the large music library that you’ve spent so much time building, wouldn’t it be great to play all that music from the comfort of your living room couch? Call for a example of it’s usefulness.

Mac Hardware, software and Networking is all under our microscope, Apple has certified us as experts and we are so happy to bring this expertise to you.

AuburnCom is a registered San Francisco company with clients from Marin county, Sausalito, Yerba Buena island, the city of San Francisco and as far south as Daly City, we make house calls to the East Bay, and ship replacement and upgrade superdrives to faraway states including Texas and Massachusettes.

Call us on 415-871-9683, email brendan@auburncom.com or visit http://www.auburncom.com to find out more about us or how we can make things better and easier for you.

Apple has just posted three new commercial spots for it’s groundbreaking product. The commercials are three average users on the streets of new york, professing the feature that they find useful. Watch them here: http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads   

and boy is it great. Today’s software update for the iPhone brought with it a couple of really nice new features and the Wifi pickup seems to be twice as strong as before, I had a list of over twenty wireless networks at one point today. But the really great feature is the ability to access iTunes from the iPhone and make quick purchases, to illustrate how easy it is, search for “Car Crash” by Matt Nathanson on your iPhone or iPod touch, the single will preview really quickly, and if you tap buy, after tapping once more to confirm, your iPhone will download the song straight to your iPhone.Once you reconnect with your iTunes library later in the day, iTunes will transfer your newly acquired song to your library, it’s easy and fun and may be enough to keep iTunes market dominance growing despite Amazon’s spectacular entry to the digital music business. 

A sample of one of our tutorials:  

Obviously, to use this, you’re going to have to have a mac with at least Tiger, and a copy of VisualHub.Let’s say you’ve got your iPhone, your mac with Tiger, and a copy of VisualHub.

First, you need to be able to script VisualHub. To do that, you’re going to have to download this special script dictionary.Next you’re going to install this script library. To do so you need to…

To learn more, call or email Brendan at AuburnCom 415-871-9683 for expert Mac advice and tutorials.   

The environmentally friendly way to watch and listen to home and mobile entertainment has been the digital way for several years now.

I’ll set clients iTunes configurations to automatically import and eject and CD that gets inserted into their Mac, this ensures that the CD Drive motor spins for a maximum of five minutes to convert the audio into digital mp3′s or aac’s on the hard drive, thereby saving the rotations that would be used up if the CD played the standard way, that is, the CD spins around and around for about 60 minutes a la LP’s.

I also endorse this method of Rip now, watch later to DVD’s and video, where a DVD has been purchased, the responsible and energy efficient practice is to rip the DVD using HandBrake and adding the movie or video to iTunes, this can take anywhere from twenty minutes to eight hours for an older Macintosh, however, the benefits are vast. You’ll put your dvd safely away in it’s case post Rip and watch your movie from iTunes, your iPod (Nano, Classic or Touch), your iPhone, your Apple TV, or you can even post it to your personal web space for watching when you’re without any of these things (or if you’d like your girlfriend or family to see the movie).

Ripping DVD’s using handbrake not only, saves energy, wears your Superdrive down less, makes the video portable, protects your original DVD copy and is cool, but also, eliminates any Region Coding that DVD’s may have on them. For example, say you’re in Milan and buy a copy of the wonderful Romanze Criminale DVD, unavailable most everywhere else, this movie is one of Italian cinema’s masterpieces, when you arrive home in California, your Mac informs you that “Hey, your Superdrive will only play Region 1 (American) DVD’s”, sure you can change this to European Region or Asian Region, etc. but you can only change this five times, so after watching Romanze Criminale, you switch back to American to watch a classic Woody Allen DVD and then back to Italian region next week to watch a collector edition Fellini you just bought in Genoa. Pretty soon you can’t change your region anymore!
Enter Handbrake, the one stop shop for converting DVD’s to local video files that will play on your Mac, iPod, iPhone, MacBook, Apple TV or the web.
Try out Handbrake and you’ll be saving the planet as well as carrying Fellini, Romanzo Criminale, and, Woody Allens great movies all on your gorgeous iPod. You’ll never think about Region Coding again!

A common occurence, a Mac at home, an XP PC at work and a Palm or Treo for travelling with, many people have other portable devices including Razr’s, Blackberry’s, Windows Mobile devices and iPhones. (Psst, this site uses iwPhone theme so looks awesome on an iPhone, if you’re using WordPress, look up iwPhone and plug it in)

To keep your calendars in sync across these devices, the first thing to do is decide which computer will be your primary (or master) computer.

Second, you’ll only sync your device with this master computer.

Thirdly to do some transparent synching between Google Calendar and iCal or iCal compatible calendars, you’ll need either Spanning Sync or an open source alternative that’s also free called GCAL daemon.

Just in time for the holiday season, Apple today unveiled a massive revision to it’s 110 million selling iPod line.

The revisions began with the iPod Shuffle, this small iPod is the size of a stamp and clips onto a lapel or shirt collar in a discreet manner suitable for bringing on trips to places that an iPod Nano might be too valuable to have, lke the beach, a jog through the woods, or when you’ve got to carry as little as possible. The iPod shuffle is now available in five new colors, including a Product (Red) edition which benefits African charities, they are still $79.

The iPod Nano received one of it’s most sensational revisions yet when the third generation became a video playing, game playing slender and sleek model. The iPod Nano starts at $149 for the 4GB model and $199 for the 8GB model, prior to hands on testing, the blogosphere was concerned it was too broad, but Engadgets Ryan Block said this after getting hands on with it at the Moscone center:

Ok, we know we’ve been calling it the fatty, but we’ll be straight up with you guys: the third gen iPod nano is friggin’ tiny. It’s maybe not the most beautifully proportioned iPod we’ve ever seen, but its tapered edges and ridiculously thin frame make up for the squatness going on here.

The iPod that we’ve known and loved has gotten a beautiful aluminum wrapper and beefed up storage, it can now hold 80GB of music videos and pictures for $249 or 160GB for $349. The iPod classic is exactly what can be expected a sleek and good looking elder iPod who seems content to hand the throne over to the successor King, his beautiful and technologically amazing son, the iPod Touch

The iPod Touch is the iPod to rule them all, Multi Touch Wide Screen Display, Web Browser, iTunes purchasing on the go, slender as can be, and absolutely gorgeous. Starting at $299, it’s got a generous 8GB of storage and goes up to 16GB of storage for $399 (at which price you can also now buy an iPhone 8GB model)

The iPod Touch and iPhone have similar feature sets with the iPhone having enough extras to make it a tantalizing temptation, Maps, Email, and, Camera are certainly three of the top reasons I’ve got my iPhone, it’s a business tool through and through, the iPhone meets a certain user set and I’ve a feeling the iPod touch is going to meet the larger user set who is simply seeking an iPod, after all, two days ago folks were paying $249 for an 8GB Nano with a small screen, they’ll surely love a full screen multi touch display, with Wifi web browsing and iTunes purchasing built in. They don’t even need a Mac or PC anymore to fill it with Music.

Both the iPhone and iPod Touch are gaining the superpower of Wireless iTunes purchasing through a new custom application that looks nice and simple.

With this revision of the iPod lineup, Apple is sure to reignite the interest of consumers and leave competing music players scrambling for competitive solutions, the iPhone price drop is a masterful piece of Machiavellian marketing, let Steve Ballmer and others scoff at the iPhone for the last six months, “Pfff, $600 for a phone!”

Then stun all by making it incredibly affordable, to compare, examine the price of unlocked Palm Treo’s and Rimm Blackberries, both sets of smart phones are in the $350 plus price range with the Palm 750 at $599. Out of the clear blue sky the iPhone is now a major competitor on price and a clear winner in terms of functionality.

One more feature worth noting is the existence of CoverFlow on all three of the new iPod models, iPod Nano, iPod Classic and iPod Touch, more than making these devices incredibly sexy to navigate, this confirms the existence of a OS X style operating system under the hood, great news for all Mac Programmers, developers and users, it verifies Apple’s commitment to the OS and their skills in advancing their software for the benefit of customers.

To ask questions about the new range of iPods, send email to brendan@auburncom.com, telephone 415-871-9683 or leave a comment on this page.
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Steve Jobs today announced at an Apple Special Event at Moscone West in San Francisco by $200 to $399!

The iPhone will have sold one million units within days and to make it eve more attractive, they’ve made the cost a much more affordable $399, which has to be a major surprise for other Cell Phone makers including Palm, Research in Motion and the Open Source folks.

I’ve set up my iPhone with my Mac, the iPhone grabbed the 302 address book entries, plus I’ve added a few and changed some. Now the Mac has been reverted to an older version of the phonebook with only 282 entries. Is there a way to grab the names and calendar details from the iPhone?

Everybody has experienced the super long lines at the Bank and the Post Office, these are two lines that you simply have no choice but to wait and be patient, I usually bring a good book or the latest issue of Make Magazine to keep me busy while at the post office.Some lines though you have a choice about, Safeway or Wholefoods or Trader Joes, if you happen to run into one of these for a liter of Organic Milk at the wrong time (5-7pm M-F) you’ll be met with a 20 minute line at the checkouts, Grocery stores can pretty much get away with this as we’re very loyal to our grocers.Technology and impulse buy stores can not afford to have long lines, this is what makes me such a fan of the service and efficiency in the Apple stores, every employee (down to  the Geniuses) seem to have handheld (or for Geniuses desk bound) payment consoles that allow anyone paying with credit or debit cards to pay for their product on the spot, be that in the middle of the floor, buy the door, perhaps even outside the store, I absolutely love this method of paying for purchases, it’s truly convenient and saves you the five minutes of will I won’t I pondering that you have when purchasing a Nintendo Wii at Best Buy.This great checkout system will enable the Apple store to process incredible numbers of sales this Friday when the Apple Store begins selling the iPhone at 6pm, in fact the Apple store using their ‘Swipe’n'Go’ (Registered TM of Auburncom) will probably be able to process fifty transactions in the same time that the AT&T stores process ten.It’ll be a truly great experience and those folks that are a hundred (or five hundred) places back in line at the Apple Store Fifth Avenue will probably be stunned, when they have completed their transaction by 6:30pm (maybe that’s exaggerating), nevertheless, you can bank on the fact that the checkout process for Apples customers on Friday will be as simple, easy, quick and pleasurable as all of Apples range of products and services.

Just found this story on Apple Insider, Best Quote:

“Awaiting the freight at each location on Sunday were armored personnel, who were reportedly hired by Apple through its courier’s ground handling agent and then cleared by the Transportation Security Administration. Armed guards are extremely unusual for freight coming out of the Asian sector, those familiar with the matter explained, and are typically reserved for shipments containing riches such as gold and diamonds.”

You can read the rest of the story here

The website RoughlyDrafted has written a long and detailed article summing up some of the facts regarding the iPhone, who and where it has received hype or criticism from and how these folks fare on a histrorical basis, one of the best parts is this: 

Gizmodo called for an iPhone boycott “for the foreseeable future” as a righteous protest against AT&T, a brand it associates with “Microsoft-style anti-competitive maneuvers and anti-privacy efforts á la RIAA.”  

Interestingly, Gizmodo offered no opinions last fall about boycotting the Zune to protest genuine“Microsoft anti-competitive maneuvers,” or the Zune’s actual connection with the RIAA with its over the top DRM, self destructing media, and the Universal “music theft tax”Microsoft bundled into its price. Why not? 

To continue reading (it’s worthwhile), click here

Apple started showing three nice ads on sunday night TV, which proudly display the usefulness and functionality as well as good looks of the iPhone.
The ads are available for online viewing here:

The iPhone is going to revolutionize the mobile phone market and also provide easy web and email access for many of us who had been using our iBooks and MacBooks for mobile web access.