It looks like there’s a new web-based browseable filesystem optimized for the iPhone. It’s still bandwidth-limited, as in, it may take a while to download your filesystem, but it’s a good reminder that there might be better ways to store files than to email them to yourself. I have an easy-to-type personal domain that I use for things like this, but by no means does it have a fancy interface like box.net’s.
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Nomad, a loyal TUAW reader, found an Apple iPhone Bluetooth headset at an Apple store yesterday, and has posted the results of his unboxing to Flickr. The AiBH shows up on the charging screen to indicate how much charge it has. Ooooooh! That’s kind of neat.
So Vincent of MYiTablet saw that and gobbled one up for a review, and they basically say that it small, comfortable, could sound better; they recommend the Jawbone for sound quality. So, if you want something light but doesn’t sound great and is very fashionable and expensive and yet underperforming, the AiBH is your headset. It will be interesting if the AiBH is updateable via firmware as well.
Vocal Laboratories published a customer satisfaction survey that gives AT&T a “C” for customer satisfaction and a “B” for call completion. The folks of the survey are interested to see if the iPhone changes the game.
This is for anyone that’s using Windows Mobile and wants an iPhone, or anyone who even wants a little bit of the best of both worlds. If you want to convert the home screen from WM to look like an iPhone, and unlock the device the same way, it looks like there’s yet another way to do it. [via]
Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report finally got an iPhone, and he’s posted his first impressions in a “March to Enslavement” installment. We’re obviously doomed for robot masters as indicated above, but at least we’ll be happy, as indicated below
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John Gruber of Daring Fireball has posted a list of fonts that are available for CSS within iSafari. Elsewhere, your font choices are made: Helvetica and Marker Felt. He includes a list of typographic likes and dislikes with the iPhone font choices. Apple, are you looking for something to give him for his birthday? There are 4 big ticket items he strongly hints at: Futura, Gill Sans, Hoefler Text, and the head of Marker Felt.
The results are in: we’ve been owned. Wired had a EULA lawyer from the EFF to analyze the binding contract for anyone that has activated an iPhone. Your contract, like any other cell phone contract anyone ever agreed to, is hilariously long and screws you six ways to Sunday. [I Agree]
There was some brouhaha about the iPhone on Duke’s network, something about it bringing the network down, and some network or school administrator blamed it on the iPhone. Well, it turns out that maybe the iPhone wasn’t at fault. Duke officially said it was something else’s fault. I hadn’t reported on this earlier (part of that whole editorial process; why report on something that isn’t related to news?), as being a sysadmin in a former career, it sounded like there was a configuration mistake on their network. And you know, it still sounds like there was a configuration flaw in their Cisco kit to me. Let’s go to the source of it and translate. I speak a few languages poorly, and press release happens to be one of them:
“The reality is that a particular set of conditions made the Duke wireless network experience some minor and temporary disruptions in service. Those conditions involve our deployment of a very large Cisco-based wireless network that supports multiple network protocols.”
Translation: “It’s pretty much Cisco’s fault.” Duke’s Cisco-based wireless network sucks!
The New York Times posted an article about a security company called Independent Security Evaluator that claims to have found a vulnerability in the iPhone’s wi-fi stack. The firm has its roots in Johns Hopkins University; I think it’s safe to say that the exploit is legitimate. ISE has started a website devoted to the vulnerability. That will detail the exploit. ISE was quick to point out that this exploit is “not the end of the world; it’s not the end of the iPhone,” but that’s not the best quote. The moral of the story?
“I will think twice before getting on a random public WiFi network now [....] You’d have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands to get it away from me.”
Google has launched a stripped down interface page for their web searches using the iPhone as a sample of their API. It’s definitely a mobile version of their page; it’s also a long URL, you’ll have to bookmark it.
