Now it looks like inside sources are confirming the July 11th launch date, which is also when Steve Jobs’ keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is scheduled.
A report from UBS Investment Research has raised Apple stock to an estimated $220.
Following are features of the new iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0.

1.3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi, supports for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously.

2.Two multi-touch sensors, both on the “bottom” part of the phone. When it’s closed, the phone acts like your current model iPhone. When it’s open, only the bottom part of the phone is touch-sensitive, whereas the top part is just a display.

3.3G/HSDPA, GPS, Back in (Glossy) Black.
With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, it combines free products in one as the original iPhone.

4.A Little Fatter. It’s also a little fatter, but you can toss your stupid headphone adapter. The screen is the same size and res.
5.5MPX camera on backside.

6.Stereo speakers.
7.OSX 2.0.

8.Support more new format of video and audio.
Support MOV video format; Audio: MP3 VBR, Audible(formats1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV.

For more new features, listed here http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

As I converting DVD movie to iPhone with Daniusoft DVD to iPhone Converter, the Daniusoft Studio announces update Daniusoft DVD to iPhone Converter to convert DVD to iPhone 2.0 - iPhone 3G too. More attrahent, there is DVD&Video;Converter Pack includes Daniusoft DVD Ripper[/url], Video Converter, Audio Converter and DVD Copy Studio Pack supports to convert DVD Video to iPhone 2.0, backup DVD and convert audio to iPhone 2.0 too.
Now, don’t worry about how to put DVD to iPhone 2.0 - iPhone 3G, just enjoy the new iPhone 2.0 on July 11th.

Addition: A countries list with iPhone 2.0 deals from Google:
Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa, Turkey, Italy, India, Austria, Philippines, Argentina, ?Brazil, ?Chile,? Colombia,? Dominican Republic,? Ecuador, ?El Salvador, ?Guatemala, ?Honduras,? Jamaica,? Mexico, Nicaragua,? Paraguay,? Peru,? Puerto Rico, ?Uruguay, Canada, Singapore, Belgium, Jordan, Romania, Switzerland and Slovakia.

Step 1. Launch Program
Download YouTube Downloader for Mac, install and open the tool.

Step 2: Download YouTube Videos
Go to YouTube website and open the pages of the videos you want to download. The program will detect the URL and automatically start downloading a video when it starts to play. There is a pop-up window on the right bottom of your computer, which hints you the video is downloading.

From the source list, you can find the status of each file.

Note:  If you want to find the downloaded files, you can click the Open button to go to the directory where the downloaded files are saved.

This YouTube downloader is totally free, if you don’t want to convert downloaded videos to your mobile players, you don’t have to pay for it.

“...It’s a Talking Clock..!”

A drunk was proudly showing off his new apartment to a
couple of his friends late one night. He led the way to his
bedroom where there was a big brass gong and a mallet.

“What’s that big brass gong?” one of the guests asked.
“It’s not a gong. It’s a talking clock,” the drunk replied.
“A talking clock? Seriously?” asked his astonished friend.
“Yup,” replied the drunk.
“How’s it work?” the friend asked, squinting at it.
“Watch,” the drunk replied. He picked up the mallet, gave
the gong an ear-shattering pound, and stepped back. The
three stood looking at one another for a moment.

Suddenly, someone on the other side of the wall screamed:

“You @$!#%&*!..it’s Three-Fifteen in the morning!!”

•• •• •• •• •• ••

“Save the Internet!”

PCMag’s Lance Ulanoff says:

The Internet as we know it is in jeopardy. Soon you may be saying so long to those nights
spent consuming countless videos of all kinds, uploading big photos to Flicker, communing
with friends via webcam, and backing up your whole hard drive to the Web. The cost of
using the Internet is about to go way, way up, and if you don’t speak out now, the ISPs are
going to flip you over and shake you until your pockets are empty.

I’m dead serious.

There’s a proposal floating around among ISPs to start charging you for the amount of data
you download (and possibly upload). So instead of a flat rate for promised but rarely realized
download and upload speeds, you’ll pay for every gigabyte you suck down and send up....

For the full report visit here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2289143,00.asp

•• •• •• •• •• •• ••

Search “Net Neutrality” to see how the topic does and will continue to affect you, even if
you do not have web access nor choose to own a computer. You can contact your state’s
congressional delegation and those persons on committee in federal legislation about this.

Is this a social forum, or does it have
specific purposes for being online?

And what ever happened to that other
Applelinks Macboard forum..? Didn’t
it have tech questions and answers
that were lost, when it went away?

(just curious, since most of those
members also went away, too.)

I recently purchased my macbook pro and attempted to set up my wireless network but still haven’t figured it out.

Some of the things I did were 1. first create a network ( didn’t work)
2. set the network utility to function with the the Airport card inside the comp.
3. I also read the entire manual on it and still have yet to figure it out

any suggestions?, as to why it may not work and how can I fix this issue??  , Thanks , Ari

I’m also unable to pick up any wireless signal through the airport card. (none at all)

It includes four parts:
Part one: How to download TV show for free.
Part two: How to put TV show on iPod.
Part three: Where to download free movie for iPod.
Part four: Play iPod on TV without Apple TV.

[B]Part one[/B]: How to download TV show for free.
For iPod users, you can buy one episode at a time or a whole season from the iTunes Store and you can watch on your iPod, computer, or widescreen TV using Apple TV, but it cost $1.99. If you feel it’s trouble to download TV show from iTunes, you can follow this guide to download TV show for free.

Here’s a quick video tutorial on how to download TV shows for free:
http://www.cucirca.com/2007/12/28/how-to-download-tv-shows/.

[B]Part two[/B]: How to put TV show on iPod.
After download TV show on your PC, please take your time to put TV shows to iPod, coz iPod can only play MP4 and H.264 video, but many TV show play as AVI format, even some shows plays with BETA and World Cup play as HDTV, so you need some thirty part
software to help you rip DVD and convert video to MP4 video, and then sync it to iPod via
iTunes. I highly recommend the Daniusoft DVD to iPod Suite, it can easily rip CSS copy
protected DVD to iPod and convert WMV, AVI, MOV, FLV, DivX, XviD video to iPod touch/ Nano/ Classic with high quality.

Here is the official download site;
And the official step-by-step guide about how to put dvd video TV show to iPod.

You just need to Install and run it, click ‘Load DVD’ to import DVD or click ‘Load file’ to add
video file (or TV shows). If you don’t want to convert the whole DVD, you can click ‘trim’ to cut segment you like. DVD regular have many chapters, if you want to join them into one
file, you can pitch on ‘Merge into one file’, and your iPod can display only one image of whole movie as in music.
But don’t forget that it’s legal convert DVD to iPod for personally not any commercial purposes.

Part three: Where to download free movie for iPod.
There are some free movie websites for movie fans to download movie for iPod and other
players.
ShowStash: Lots of popular TV shows, cartoons, etc.
Mefeedia: “Find thousands of video blogs (video
podcasts), and watch them on your computer, video iPod or PSP.”
The Internet Movie Database: Movie reviews, information about upcoming movie premieres,
movie clips, and more.
Free Public Domain Movies and Documentaries: Free movies and more, all available for free download.
iFilm: One of my favorite places on the Web for great videos, trailers, etc.
Here is a listing of free movie download webistes.

Most of downloaded movies are AVI file, you can use [B]Videora or Daniusoft DVD to iPod
Suite[/B] to convert AVI video to iPod video.

[B]Part four[/B]: Play iPod on TV without Apple TV.
This part is about how to play iPod on TV without Apple TV. As you know, Apple TV is a
connector which allows you to stream media files from your computer and view iPod video on TV.  You can also store the media files on the unit’s hard drive, but the current price of the unit is $300 more or less. So, the article helps you play iPod on TV so you can watch iPod video on TV for free. And you also can watch the video here to know more Why Apple TV is pointless if you’ve got an iPod.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXd66cNZYD4.

It just includes three steps:
Step 1.take a composite video cable. As picture follow:

Step 2, simply plug one end of the cable into the headphones port on iPod and the other end into TV. There is a little problem to plug the composite video into TV because you can’t plug it in like you normally do.

Here is the diagram helps explain what cables go where in TV.

In fact, the plugs on TV will be in this order: Red, White, yellow. Plug the cables in this
order: yellow, White, Red. Now you’ve got the cable set up.

Step 3 , set iPod on TV up. Don’t worry, it doesn’t hack the iPod and everything goes safe.
From the main screen of your iPod, go to ‘Video’ -> ‘Video Settings’. Scroll to TV Out and make it ‘Ask’ instead of ‘Off’.

Then, 1) Scroll down to TV Signal and make sure its NTSC if you live in North America/Japan or PAL if you live anywhere else.

2) So after you’ve set iPod on TV up, back out to Video menu and go pick an iPod video to watch. I chose an episode of Family guy protect Lois Hi.

3) Before the video starts, select ‘TV On’ , turn on TV and go to wherever you go when you use your video games, VCR, etc.

thnx a lot