Mac Book Air on Air ! :)

Mac Book Air is too sexy. Just 1.36 kgs. Thinnest side is 0.4 cm , thickest side is 1.94 cm

No ethernet. No CD/DVD. Too important features to miss. At least for me. I would not prefer to buy it. I still want a Mac Book Pro.

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/

HELP SAVE XP Petition

MS is ending XP this June. If you want XP to live longer visit this link.

4 million iPhones sold

Steve Jobs told at Macworld 2008 that Apple sold 4 million iPhone in 200 days. That makes Apple No.2 cellphone maker (20%) in smartphone market after RIMM (40%).

iTunes 7.6 released

With iTunes 7.6 you can manually manage your music and videos on your iPhone.

iPhone firmware 1.1.3

Apple finally released iPhone firmware 1.1.3. With it you can change the order of your icons or delete or change the icons on the task bar. You can even create pages for your icons.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/?movie=a

Finger Tip #11: Customize Home Screen

The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

A magnificent story about how Apple built iPhone. A must to read.

A few headlines:

• Code name of the project was P2 (Purple 2)
• They built a phone and abandoned it (in fall 2006, just 3 months before Steve will launch the real iPhone)
• To ensure the iPhone's tiny antenna could do its job effectively, Apple spent millions buying and assembling special robot-equipped testing rooms. To make sure the iPhone didn't generate too much radiation, Apple built models of human heads — complete with goo to simulate brain density — and measured the effects. To predict the iPhone's performance on a network, Apple engineers bought nearly a dozen server-sized radio-frequency simulators for millions of dollars apiece. Even Apple's experience designing screens for iPods didn't help the company design the iPhone screen, as Jobs discovered while toting a prototype in his pocket: To minimize scratching, the touchscreen needed to be made of glass, not hard plastic like on the iPod. One insider estimates that Apple spent roughly $150 million building the iPhone.
• Apple gains net 80 $ from a 399$ iPhone plus 240$ from every 2 year contract with AT&T
• iPhone has tripled the carrier's volume of data traffic in cities like New York and San Francisco
• Jobs unveiled the MOTOROLA ROKR in September 2005. It was a disaster. Wired summarized the disappointment on its November 2005 cover: "YOU CALL THIS THE PHONE OF THE FUTURE?"
• The negotiations with AT&T would take more than a year. At one point, Jobs met with some executives from Verizon, who promptly turned him down.
• It took almost a year to shrink down Mac OSX to fit the iPhone.
• Through it all, Jobs maintained the highest level of secrecy. Teams were split up and scattered across Apple's Cupertino, California, campus. Even the iPhone's hardware and software teams were kept apart: Hardware engineers worked on circuitry that was loaded with fake software, while software engineers worked off circuit boards sitting in wooden boxes. By January 2007, when Jobs announced the iPhone at Macworld, only 30 or so of the most senior people on the project had seen it.

whole story:
wired magazine

I have my iPhone at last!

iPhone users raise network hopes

Matthew Key, who becomes chief executive of O2 Europe next month, told the Financial Times that 60 per cent of the company's iPhone customers in the UK were sending or receiving more than 25 megabytes of data a month, the equivalent of 7,500 e-mails without attachments or 25 YouTube videos.

By comparison, less than 2 per cent of O2's other UK customers on monthly payment contracts use more than 25MB a month.

"Here's absolute proof that if you get the proposition right, customers will use data," said Mr Key, who reached a deal with Apple for O2 to be the exclusive UK network operator for the iPhone.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22381324/

NOKIA vs iPhone

What’s more insecure, the iPhone or Apple?

Why kill third party apps on iPhone?
a security flaw which can bring the whole celllular network down?
s security flaw through which a hacker can access your phone, camera etc. via EDGE or wi - fi?
A serious article on these issues. Apple should give a response to this as soon as it can.

lf-photodesign.de

Fransa'da satılan unlocked (SIM kilitsiz) telefonlar gerçekten unlocked (SIM kilitsiz) değil

Apple'ın Fransa'da - Fransa kanunlarına göre zorunlu olarak - SIM kilitsiz versiyonunu da sattığı iPhone'lar gerçek anlamda kilitsiz değil. iPhone'larda bir ülke kilidi bulunuyor. Yani iPhone'u sadece Fransa'daki mobil operatörler ile kullanabiliyorsunuz. Fransa'da alınan bir iPhone'u başka bir ülkede kullanamıyorsunuz.

iPhone Atlas

Officially unlocked iPhones in France not really unlocked

It turns out that the officially (Apple-sanctioned) unlocked iPhone you bought for 649 Euros (about US$965) from Orange in France — which, according to some reports, accounts for up to 20% of total iPhone sales in France — is not really unlocked. It retains a country lock, meaning the device will only allow use of SIM cards for carriers that operate in France. In other words, you can’t take your French, “unlocked” iPhone to Spain, the United States, or anywhere else, pop in a foreign SIM card, and make calls on a local carrier — you’re still stuck paying international roaming fees to your French carrier.

iPhone Atlas

Mactracker

Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options. Also included is information on Apple mice, keyboards, displays, printers, scanners, digital cameras, iPod, Apple TV, iPhone, AirPort Base Stations, Newton, and Mac OS versions.

http://www.mactracker.ca/

Send MMS with your iPhone

There's now a native MMS application for the iPhone. It's an early version and will only let you send (not receive) messages right now.

ars technica

iPhone has been the most common search on Google in 2007

The iPhone has been the most common search on Google in 2007.

ars technica