First Third-party Native iPhone App Now Available (Pic & video)

Google Code has now the first third-party native application ever for the iPhone. A real, full-fledged iPhone application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone home screen. Yes, this is not a Web 2.0 app but the Real Thing™, as you can see in the picture and in the video demonstration.

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Oops, iPhone Display Needs to Reboot, Runs Windows XP [PIC]

Hey PC fanboys, now you can use this shot of a Windows XP display at an AT&T store when those smug Mac worshipers tell you about how such-and-such Zune commercial was made on a Mac, and how "all media types and artists" use Macs. Windows runs the world, baby.

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iPhone Update Released 1.0.1

Currently updating it now... firmware loading... verifying updated software... restarting... completed and resyncing.Overall time is about 5 minutes.

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Woo Hoo!! Got my iPhone.. Here's how.

What a great few days... I saw the hilarious Simpson's movie and purchased an iPhone. It's great. I have the Q but after playing with the iPhone once again, I bit the bullet. How did I justify the cost? I had the Verizon data plan for $45 a month in addition to our family plan. My kids have been pushing us over the minutes the last few months so it increased the overall cost. If I get off the $45 data plan and spend $60 for the iPhone plan with data... it will reduce the number of minutes on the family plan and reduce our overall cost! Almost. Well, not really, but I really, really wanted the iPhone and our anniversary is next week and I'll make sure to get my wife some very nice flowers and a great gift!

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iPhone v. Q - War in the backwoods of Mississippi

The Register has great, unbiased opinion comparing the iPhone versus a Sprint base Motorola Q phone. It seems the iPhone is just as good as the Q, somewhat better in the user interface, once you get used to the virtual keyboard, but the writer recommends to wait for rev 2.0 if you can.

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The First Apple Ad for The First Apple Computer

The Apple I. I'm sure it's hard for most diggers to imagine the world pre-internet, let alone pre GUI, or even further "pre-PC." Apple was there & this was the beginning. This ad came out when I was in High School and pre-dates the Commodore VIC-20. My first computer was an Apple II compatible Franklin ACE 1200 that had a 1MHz processor, a CP/M card, dual floppy disks, and a PI3 Amber monitor. It's amazing how far we've come in 30 years or so.

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