Archive for July, 2007

Posted on July 3, 2007 - by Wayne Sutton

Top 25 Web Apps for the iPhone as of July 3, 2007

A list of 25 iPhone applications via rev2.org, if you know any more add to the comments.

iPhoneChat
Google Reader
iPhoneDigg
OneTrip Shopping List
IPhlickr
Hahlo
iZoho
Gass.app
MyMetar
Apple Reader
iPhone Travel
iActu
Digg Mobile
iBookmark
101 Cookbooks
YouTube
goMovies
Listingly
iPling
iChess
NYTimes River
CheapMF
iTouch
Avalanche
Expense View

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Posted on July 3, 2007 - by Wayne Sutton

Create the 6th Gen contract-free WiFi-enabled iPod with the iPhone

From TUAW, it looks like after you have activated your iPhone you can swap out the SIM card with an inactive SIM card to create a 4gb or 8gb touchscreen iPod. What about the phone you ask? Your out of luck unless skype can create some kind of application for the device.

From TUAW
“What did I discover? I found that your activated iPhone is a lot more flexible and powerful than AT&T and Apple admit. Pop out the SIM or put an inactive SIM and your iPhone works pretty much like a contract-free WiFi-enabled 6th Generation iPod.” Tested without SIM, with invalid SIM, with activated SIM from pay-as-you-go phone. WiFi & sync work

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Posted on July 2, 2007 - by Wayne Sutton

Durham, NC company CrossComm launches free iPhone game Lumina

CrossComm, shows of it work with free iPhone game called Lumina in which you try to memorize and reproduce color patters.

I assume all the employees now have iPhones, if so join us for the upcoming meetup.

Posted on July 2, 2007 - by Wayne Sutton

Pre-Paid iPhones how-to from TUAWi

Here you go, so you can avoid those 2 year contracts with any carrier much less At&t.

Please read and follow the instructions or you could be in for a long wait trying to activate your iPhone, the key is to use Wireless Person as the name and 999-99-9999 as the SSN.

iPhone: Prepay the right way: “It is now about 5:00 Mountain Time as I write this. I spent most of the day at the AT&T store from about 9 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon. Then I spent several more hours at home talking to AT&T and Apple support personnel. I have swapped SIMs so often that I deserve a SIM merit badge. I have set up no fewer than six separate phone accounts. My credit card has been beaten and battered funding those accounts.

Here’s what I learned: If you want to set up your iPhone as a prepaid account, do not–no that’s not emphatic enough–do NOT, DO NOT attempt to set up the account in advance with AT&T.

Just don’t. Trust me. Here’s how you should do it:

Buy the iPhone. Connect it to iTunes. Sign up using 999-99-9999 as your social security number. After failing the credit check, select a GoPhone plan. After signing up for a GoPhone plan and being assigned a number and passcode, connect to the AT&T GoPhone funding page as prompted, enter your credit card or debit card information and you’re good to go. DO NOT attempt to fund your iPhone over the phone with AT&T. DO NOT set up your iPhone prepaid account in advance with AT&T.

As for me? After a certain number of failed attempts (all on the part of extremely warm, wonderful, but ultimately unsuccesful AT&T employees), the fraud detection system kicked into gear. That’s where I am now. I can’t move forward until AT&T closes down all those well meaning but useless accounts and lets me activate the one, good account that started and ended in iTunes.

As for the AT&T and Apple personnel? I’ve been working with them now for nearly 22 hours of on-phone and in-person time. (Yes, I was up way late last night). With the exception of one person[1], they have all been fabulously kind, patient and supportive. Thank you to you all, especially Diana Cruzan the retail sales manager for the Aurora City Place AT&T store, Jamshed Mulla, AT&T iPhone Guru, and Dan Callahan of Fleishman Hillard.

[1] There’s always one.

Update: 5:25. Just off the phone with AT&T fraud detection people. It LIVES!!!! ‘iPhone is Activated’. Woot!

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)