The Non-Profit Tech Guru

Well, I took the plunge and upgrade my 2-year-old original iPhone to the 3GS model. Here’s the good, the bad and the ugly:
Good:
1. WAY FASTER – especially on cell data – I was trying to get my mail on the Edge network and it took forever – the 3G network and faster hardware make [...]

Well, I’m one of the nerds who had iTunes open and kept clicking the Check for Update. FINALLY, at 10:06 am PDT, it said that 3.0 was available.
Of course I chose download and update, and of course after 45 minutes of updating the frickin’ phone was stuck on the update bar. So, I unplugged the [...]

There is an article in the Apple Insider this morning about new features in the forthcoming Snow Leopard Server that allow secure remote access to messaging etc. from the iPhone. They go on to do a cost comparison to show that for 100 users, you can buy Apple’s server product and spend less than $4000, [...]

Ok, not really weaponized, but the DOD has them in widespread deployment around the world. Is it so soldiers can rock out at a moment’s notice? NO! These babies are loaded with applications that allow soldiers to communicate in ways that were impossible 5 years ago, and required 6 different custom built-military grade (read: exhorbitantly [...]

I found a link that shows you how to create an iPhone ringtone from any song in your itunes library – you don’t have to pay for it through the iTunes store. Works with Windows or Mac. It works great!

http://theappleblog.com/2008/08/07/free-custom-iphone-ringtones-using-only-itunes/