• Screencast: Intro to iPhone development with Aptana
• iPhone/BlackBerry/Treo Comparison
• iPhone Works fine without AT&T service as a wifi device. Woah. That's pretty cool.
• Craig Hockenberry: Beyond Sweet Lots of astute observations worth reading here.
• 10 Great Flickr Photos for your Laptop Background I am addicted to the various wallpaper and desktop capture groups.
• Good Gamers Make Great Leaders, Say IBM and Seriosity I've learned more from the 16 months of being a WoW GM than I could even begin to share.
• Should The IPhone Have A Landscape Keyboard Mode? Interesting that this is on a RIM weblog.
• The Business of Software Wiki Wow, this doesn't work in Safari. That's just dumb.
• Firebug for iPhone
• iPhone JavaScript window events

• One Trip Shopping List Manager
• Gas App Nice and simple, right to the point.
• Lumina Game that currently has some performance issues.

Yeah, so I bought this iPhone thing. Generally, I love it, but I won't waste your time with a lot of observations that are available elsewhere. I will say that I moved to it from a Samsung Blackjack, and while both have their advantages and disadvantages, I will be sticking with the iPhone. There are three things that I wish the iPhone had right now that it does not; the ability to tether to my laptop for data, a disk mode, and the ability to use my music as ringtones. This post is about that last item.

So, right now, you are stuck with the default ringtones, welcome to 1999. Every phone that I have had for the last 8 or 9 years allowed me to use other ringtones. That's just dumb from a company that is largely about music these days. Then, I read this article this morning. So they are going to charge us for ringtones via the iTunes store.

Now, I am no lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, or even want to play one. This, however, seems like a real issue to me. I have paid for a lot of music via the iTunes music store. I already paid for it. I want to use it as a ringtone on a device that I also paid for. It seems, to me at least, that this is charging me twice for the same thing. I wonder aloud if I ponied up some money, if this is a lawsuit that we could win for everyone. Let me know your thoughts.

Olde English did this funny iPhone release day video for us. Go check it out, everyone else will be soon.

• I would love a Pownce invite, if anyone has some. I am a good guy, seriously.
• Michael Moore is a self-centered moron.

When I say "Hey" thou shalt not say "Ho".
When I say "Hip" thou shalt not say "Hop".
When I say "he say, she say, we say, make some noise" - kill me.

Download Page for the Single (links to various iTunes Stores)
His MySpace Page
Dan LeSac's Blog
Dan LeSac's MySpace Page

• The Ethics of Web Work
• ElectionVine How long until someone tries to buy Newsvine? They are innovating past the rest of the news market.
• Iconfactory Wallpapers for your iPhone
• Lightroom 1.1 Released

• Five Ways to Speed Up Lightroom
• Apple, Microsoft to push Exchange Direct Push to iPhone? If this is true, a whole bunch of these worthless industry analysts are going to have to eat some crow.

• MiniMail is based on Derek's post. Sweet.
• Atlanta Hawks Redesign I actually like it. Too bad they will suck as long as they have Billy Knight as their GM.
• The first legendary item to drop in Burning Crusade. Where's a legendary bow Blizzard?
• 30 apps that are killing Microsoft I'm not sure that I buy the majority of this today. Maybe someday though.
• 90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources
• The Onion: Apple's new iPhone I am not planning on buying an iPhone.
• An Asston of unofficial Leopard videos via the always awesome Uneasysilence

I am posting these, because I am capable of doing so:

• Asshole driven development
• How To Keep Widgets From Slowing Down Sites: WEDJE The commish drops some science on widgets.
• iStat Menus Released Awesome in menu bar system monitors. If you don't like that, check out their app and widget version. They even have Vista sidebar thingees.
• Guide On How To Keep A Girl For Gamers Some important information here.
• Costco and the art of Vacuum Packing Screw you Sams Club people. We're all Costco here.

Here’s today’s links (updated as the day goes on.):

• The motorcycle in the next Batman movie looks awesome.
• Sweet DC Comics/BAPE collaboration I would buy the Batman one, but man, $439 for a hoodie. I'm just not that cool.
• LOL Shirts Hah.
• Versions is an SVN client for Mac OS X. It looks much slicker and nicer than anything else I have found so far. Looking forward to trying it out
• Sweet iPhone Cases
• A List of Cool Mac Software A few here that I wasn't familiar with.
• Starting Ruby on Rails: What I Wish I Knew
• Digital Cameras: The Top 10 Things You Need to Know Some great nuggets tucked in this list.
• The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes

Here’s today’s links (updated as the day goes on.):

• Fumo is an alternate interface for Quicksilver that actually smokes. Cool stuff.
• Cool Binary Ring A little too expensive for me right now, but still pretty cool.
• WoW2Go Play World of Warcraft on Mac via SOCKS/HTTP/SSH. I can see the network administrators grimacing now.

Here’s today’s links (updated as the day goes on.):

• To Protect Your Computer, Windows has Closed the Firewall Service
• GigaOM Top 10 Most Popular MMOs I love the fact that, for all the press it is getting, Second Life is at the bottom of this list. People are dumb.
• Top 5 Novels That Should Be Games
• The Yankees have their huge gap with the Red Sox down to 8 1/2 games leading into their weekend series with the Mets. Things are getting interesting.
• Apple releases Safari Beta 3.0.1 for Windows They took a lot of heat for some of the initial security flaws, but it looks like they are serious about fixing them. Nice turnaround.
• Trailer for the Movie, The Ten Ten stories about the ten commandments. From the people who brought you "The State." Looks pretty funny.
• How Google Earth Works

Here’s today’s links (updated as the day goes on.):

• Pathfinder 4.7 Released Adds Subversion support, tabbed terminal.
• Flickr Support Thread About PayPal's removal from the payment options. Ironically, while they changed the site itself to be more international friendly, the changes to payment options make them decidedly less international friendly.

Flickr released a major update today mainly targetted at adding international features to their site. This is great, and I am happy for them, but in their blog post on the subject, this text is at the very bottom. “As part of this launch, Flickr Pro payment processing is now handled by Yahoo! Wallet and supports a myriad of credit card options.” Previously, they took Paypal. I use Paypal almost every day for something. I don’t want to sign up for Yahoo Wallet just to pay for Flickr. That’s insanely dumb, and the pre-Yahoo Flickr would never have done it.

Going to start doing a daily links post, like many other folks do. Here’s today’s links:

• 16 Ways the iPhone has changed An interesting study in how products evolve from concept to shipping.
• Mac Tip: Encrypted Storage I was actually already using this trick to encrypt the data on the 12Gb USB flash drive I carry around in my pocket.
• The Ultimate RSS Toolbox Some great information here for you other RSS-nauts.
• Net::Flickr::Geo Printing Qoop books from Flickr with maps.
• Gruber's Excellent Analysis of the WWDC Keynote Announcements
• Stewart Copeland lives a simple life

One of the best things about visiting Manhattan is getting to do a little shopping, and this recent trip is no exception. I walked around SoHo for a few hours last Monday, and walked into the Camper store. I had previously worn Campers, but as their lines of shoes changed, I stopped. Happily, on this trip, their newest line had some really awesome new shoes in it, and I picked up a pair of these. After having worn them for a few days, I have to say that they are one of the most comfortable pairs of shoes I have ever owned.

I spent the last ten days in New England, mainly for the purpose of fulfilling my role as the best man in my brother Chris' wedding. I come back somewhat exhausted, and after fighting through some parking snafus at Atlanta Hartsfield, am finally sitting in my office at home, waiting for Zifty.com to bring me some dinner. It was a great week away. Spending time with my family always puts things in perspective for me the way nothing else in my life can.

It was also nice to mostly unplug for a week.

Comcast, we’ve been together for Internet access for almost three years now, but I am having second thoughts about our future together. My service has not gone a week without failing in some way for the last three months. You make appointments with me, then show up at the wrong time, sometimes not at all, or you call to cancel at the very end of my three hour appointment window. When you do show up, your technicians are unable to figure out what is wrong with my service. Your technical support people put me on hold so long that my battery in my phone dies while on hold. If I had a choice in the matter, I would have broken up with you months ago.