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Ahrrrghh! Even Pirates be loving the iPhone!

Above: We’re not sure why these sailing gloves don’t have index finger and thumbs, but they’ll sure come in “handy”. As temperatures across the country drop to below freezing, dialing your iPhone has become a hazardous prospect. Due to the iPhone and iPod touch’s need for physical contact with your exposed skin, placing a call or scrolling through music tracks requires you first remove your gloves, risking frostbite and (shudder) dry skin.... Read More

iPhone gets some much needed “business street cred” thanks to Avaya

Avaya Inc. (headquartered a mere stone’s throw away from Macenstein Labs’ Awesometown, NJ location) has announced they will bring iPhone support to their Avaya one-Xâ„¢ Mobile platform early in Q1. Read More  Read More

Review: JBL Reference 610 Wireless iPod Headphones

Since the beginning of time, man has sought to cut the cable that attaches his iPod to his headphones. Primitive man used stone axes and crude cutting tools to smash the cables, but this often had undesirable side effects. Luckily, today we have Bluetooth, the “stone ax” of the modern age. JBL has incorporated this modern marvel into their latest set of reference headphones (the 610), in an attempt to finally free man from the tangles of wires that killed off so... Read More

And now we know why the iPhone didn’t ship with GPS…

…because it’s frickin’ HUGE! How fat is it? This GPS is so fat, when it sits around the iPhone, it sits AROUND the iPhone! This GPS is so fat, it had to get baptized at Sea World. This GPS is so fat, it sat on a Nintendo GameCube and it turned into a gameboy. This GPS is so fat, if you tell it to haul ass, it’s gotta make two trips. Read More  Read More

Reader’s Digest: “The iPhone is the Devil”

At the checkout line today, the cover of Reader’s Digest caught my eye in a way that usually only the cover of Fitness Magazine is able to do. The above shot of the iPhone – complete with horns and devil tail – makes it clear. The iPhone is the work of the devil, if not the devil himself. Seeing as I only had 7 of my allowed 8 items or less, I picked up this “rag” to see what it was about the iPhone that made RD‘s editors feel the need... Read More

“iPhone Firmware 1.1.3 to drop Saturday with voice recording and disk mode”, say the French

Boy, that was fast! Just days after getting their first iPhones, the French have now gotten their first iPhone rumor! “According to various rumors, it’s next Saturday that should leave the new firmware of the iPhone. This version 1.1.3 provides two major innovations: dictaphone function and the ability to use the telephone as an Apple hard drive.” Such are the translated words of CNET France . This alleged update would come almost exactly 1 month after the 1.1.2... Read More

Review: TightJacket for MacBook/iPod/iPhone

In the overcrowded gadget-protector market, sometimes the simplest solution is the hardest to see. While most case manufacturers seek to protect your expensive device by hiding it under layers of rubber and reinforced plastic, designer Terry Wilson decided to take a softer approach. Terry’s TightJacket sleeves are simple “pull-over” style covers that can fit pretty much any laptop, or any rectangular object, for that matter. Made from unused bolts of spandex... Read More

OK, This is getting REALLY annoying

Anyone out there figure out way to mark all messages as “read” in the iPhone’s e-mail app yet? Or to delete more than one message at a time? Looking very much forward to 1.1.3… 🙁  Read More

iPhone mentioned all over Apple’s Canadian website – sloppy coding or impending launch?

“Canadians may have universal healthcare, but WE have the iPhone!” This has long been the rallying cry of many an American as we lay dying from a tumor caused by excessive cell phone use. It’s a trade-off all Americans gladly accept, yet it looks like that may be about to change. No, we’re not getting universal healthcare – it looks like the iPhone may finally be coming to Canada! Read More  Read More

Last day to submit for your $100 iPhone credit

Today (November 30th, for those of you without calendars) is the last day “early iPhone adopters” can redeem their $100 Apple Store credit. I blew spent mine on Leopard a couple weeks ago, but now that we’re in the thick of the holiday shopping season, I could sure use another… Did I mention how very, very, very deeply hurt I was by that iPhoe price drop thing? 🙂 (If you haven’t already redeemed your iPhone credit, click here to do so).  Read More