Now that the iPhone 3G is old news, and that developers are comfortably settling into their new development digs, the time seems ripe to investigate new ways the iPhone and the Mac — or the PC — could interact together. I have previously discussed the disappointing docking system, that seems to provide nothing to iPhone users, apart from the purely...

Electricity costs where I live are skyrocketing (49% in the past 12 months). I've always been interested and concerned about conserving power. But, I've really been taking a closer look over the past year. So, do you know how much power your Mac uses and what it contributes to your total monthly power bill?

Handling email has always been a kind of fight for me: unfortunately, I am highly susceptible to procrastination, so as soon as I spot a fresh mailing list digest or a new issue of my favorite Macintosh e-zine in my inbox amongst all those _important_ emails, it's the latter which immediately disappear from my "conscious field of vision." But I think I have found a remedy: simply move those less important emails out of the way and deal with them later, so I can check the more important stuff without being distracted. This approach turned out to work quite well and, thanks to Mail's rules and Smart Mailboxes, it can be fully automated, too.

There are so many things that we just don't know.

For me newly upgraded iPod touch shows that a phone-less but connectable PDA has an important place in the mobile ecosystem. It delivers on what the old Windows Mobile Pocket PCs promised and brings us full circle to the original PDA - The Apple Newton. But, the thing that makes it work is the Apple App Store. That is the real killer App.

Friday I got a new iPhone. Nope I didn't stand in line. Actually, maybe I did. It depends on how you count the two hours that I was without a phone hitting reload.

In iTunes and on iPods, "audiobook" is not just another genre, but a distinct type of audio file with a few useful extra features. Creating your own files of this type is possible, and there are numerous tutorials on how to do this. But this is a non-trivial and tedious task -- unless you delegate all the heavy lifting to Audiobook Builder.

The last stores in the world to open up to sell the iPhone 2 were in Honolulu, HI. I visited one of them to check out the line.

Now that the iPhone 2.0 firmware has been released, even if unofficially as I write these lines, iPhone 1.0 users have gained the ability to securely erase their devices, through the enhanced "reset" menu item. Since the iPhone tends to store so much in unencrypted form on its internal memory, including some information we may not want revealed, such as...

I don't think the Mac-LEGO Mindstorms NXT connection gets enough web-print. So, I finally took the time to play with LEGO Mindstorms NXT and an Intel-based Macbook connected using Bluetooth. The result was a lot of fun! :-)