airlock is very cool

How much did it kill the battery? I used to use Proximity (reduxcomputing-proximity - Project Hosting on Google Code) but found that it killed my 2G's battery more than I liked (i.e. 10% at the end of the day compared to 50% without Proximity)

Thank God! I thought for a minute there we were losing you, Posty.

i mean the 3GS is just so sweet. its super fast, and the ringer and phone calls are MUCH louder then on my first gen.

From the iphone blog:

Was in a conference today and missed it. How did the protest go?

How much did it kill the battery? I used to use Proximity (reduxcomputing-proximity - Project Hosting on Google Code) but found that it killed my 2G's battery more than I liked (i.e. 10% at the end of the day compared to 50% without Proximity)

I'm not sure. I'm a pretty heavy iPhone user at work so I have a charger on my desk... I use the iPhone for Omnifocus, news, music, video at lunch....etc. This did add to the battery drain, but it's hard for me to say how much. There is a slider in the application that allows you to adjust the sensitivity of the app. So you have have it look for the iPhone less often thus diminishing the impact on iPhone battery life.

Was in a conference today and missed it. How did the protest go?

Oops, Friday. Not sure how I got time mixed up.

It was an utter failure without you there Blessingx!

I hope there are no emergency calls attempted during that time.

What program do you guys use to encode videos for your iphones?

handbrake

x2 handbrake

In case anyone is interested. Don't know the bitrates...

Classical Music Collection for iPhone $999 drop to $.99 - dealmac.com

In case anyone is interested. Don't know the bitrates...

Classical Music Collection for iPhone $999 drop to $.99 - dealmac.com

Wow. Had to buy it at $0.99, even if it might not sound good.

Yup, for $1, I'm in

Finally, you can unicorn people...

Heh, just caught this little piece of news.

AT&T Blunder Cuts Off iPhone Sales in NY - PC World Business Center

WTF?

Even if that really is for the now-claimed reason that NYC had too many fraudulent purchases, it's a truly gigantic PR gaffe. I anticipate hurried backpedaling.

(Though not hurried enough, apparently, to prevent the amazingly lame "we periodically modify our promotions and distribution channels" follow-up gaffe. Wow, impressive gaffespersonship.)

Fake Steve has one post up about this so far, and I doubt he'll let it go at that. Blunders like this are too much fun for just one day of satire.

There is a handy-dandy little program that will make ANY song into a ringtone.

Called "Iphoneringtonemaker", oddly enough.

Available in torrentland for those who roll that way.

Works great. I especially like that you can choose which part of the song to use, not just the beginning.

I'm about 90% sure that I'll be giving das iPhone the boot in a few days. As a device, it's pretty great, as a phone it sucks. Since most of what I need is just a phone, operation punt is looking more and more appealing every day.

Yeah, I've never understood the complaints about the phone either. Works as well as my previous half dozen dumb-phones. Now AT&T service depending on where you live compared to Sprint, Verizon, MetroPCS, etc. is another matter.

works great as a phone for me. i can hear the other person, and the other person can hear me.

Not for me, call volumes are too low to be heard just about everywhere except near silent conditions. Honestly, it's a struggle to use it in the car and the speakerphone section is even worse. And yes, I've tried it without the case on it to see if that is hurting the volume and that doesn't help.

Coverage around me blowing chunks is certainly a contributing factor as well.

I'm not having problems with volume, though spotty coverage and dropped calls really sucks. AT&T in NYC blows chunks.

weird.

agreed and frustrating.

The iPhone is audible for me but I have a spare Samsung* that gives great call volume and intelligibility, so I can readily understand how people feel the lack of that when they move to an iPhone. Sorry to hear it's not working out for you, but since its additional features sound like they're not that compelling for you, I guess it's not a great loss.

*SGH-J700 - fairly recent, fairly cheap, fairly compact - deadly flaw is that the method to favorite numbers for one-touch dialing is utterly mysterious.

Hilarious. I just watched Cnet's video review of the Droid Eris (potential phone for wife) and it started with one of the Luke Wilson AT&T adds. Epic fail.