You may have noticed most iPhone apps (actual apps, not transvestite websites with hairy HTML poking out behind ill-fitting iPhone lingerie) are poo. Specifically, most iPhone apps are dog poo that’s been eaten by a particularly nasty dog, then been pooed again prior to being set on fire. Here’s twelve that aren’t.

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Another great format war ended this week, with Blu-Ray to 70% of released films and, according to the Financial Times, HD-DVD left with one major studio. HD-DVD owners are either mildly put out, or happy they can now pick up HD movies for a few dollars as they’re tossed out by major retailers.

We’ve been here before: whether RealPlayer versus Windows Media, BSD versus Linux, or boxers versus briefs. Let’s take a look back at some of the great format wars of our time.

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iPhone 1.1.2 is the current iPhone firmware.  If you’re running something older, you’re missing out on: a bunch of bug fixes and improvements to Safari, seeing your battery charge in iTunes, ringtones,  and if for those outside the US, vastly improved international support.  1.1.3 isn’t out, much less cracked. If you’re still running old firmware, now’s the perfect time to upgrade to 1.1.2, because the new iNdependence makes it damn easy.

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The following guide allows you to wirelessly sync an iPhone with Amarok in Ubuntu 7.10, including:

• adding, editing and playing songs to the iPhone
• creating and copying playlists to the iPhone
• copy songs from iPhone to the Amarok library

It takes less than 10 minutes, and is completely graphical. Read the rest of this entry »