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How To Connect An iPhone To A Mac And Share Files
iPhone 3G Owners Are Using Less Internet Than AT&T Expected: Blame Crappy Service
Malware Poses as iPhone Game
Panic as Apple iPhone Users Are Attacked By Windows Penguins
Confessions of an iPhone Convert
Potential iPhone Usability And Interface Improvements
iPhone Auto-correct Puts Euro Tongues Out Of Joint
How To Connect An iPhone To A Mac And Share Files
Mac360's Jeffrey Mincey says:
Yes, your iPhone is so cool it's hot. So is your Mac. Connect your iPhone to your Mac and iTunes becomes the gatekeeper to move files back and forth.
Is there an easier way with more options? Yes. PhoneView connects your iPhone or iPod touch to your Mac and acts like a disk drive.
What's the fun in that? First, your iPhone or iPod touch becomes simply another disk attached to your Mac. That makes it a perfect backup solution for select valuable files that you want to store away from your Mac.
PhoneView is a familiar-looking Mac utility, a cross between the Finder and iTunes, which lets you move files back and forth between iPhone or iPod touch and your Mac.....
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/3w3nh3
iPhone 3G Owners Are Using Less Internet Than AT&T Expected: Blame Crappy Service
AlleyInsider's Dan Frommer reports:
Apple's new iPhone 3G is supposedly twice as fast as the old one, and its new App Store opens up all kinds of neat new mobile Internet services like baseball video and free streaming radio. Yet AT&T says iPhone 3G users are using less bandwidth than they anticipated.
The carrier expected a 5x growth in data consumption over the old iPhone, but it's been closer to a 3x jump, AT&T CTO John Donovan said this morning at a Goldman Sachs investor conference, Moconews notes.
Not surprising to us: In our experience, AT&T's 3G service for the iPhone has been anything but impressive....
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/5337wv
Malware Poses as iPhone Game
eWeek's Brian Prince reports:
Malware writers are spamming e-mails with a file posing as a popular iPhone video game, according to researchers at Sophos. In fact, the file contains a Trojan, which ironically only runs on Microsoft Windows. Still, Sophos said the Trojan can potentially allow a hacker to take over an infected PC.
Researchers at Sophos have uncovered a Trojan masquerading itself as a game for the Apple iPhone.
The Trojan, identified by Sophos as Troj/Agent-HNY, is being spread via e-mail as an attachment dubbed Penguin.Panic.zip after the popular "Penguin Panic" game for the iPhone.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Malware-Poses-as-iPhone-Game/?kc=rss
Panic as Apple iPhone Users Are Attacked By Windows Penguins
ITWire's Davey Winder reports:
What do you get if you mix Windows users with an Apple iPhone, stir well using some panicking penguins and decorate with a chunk of spam? The blindingly obvious answer is the latest Trojan attack, of course...
The iPhone itself is not totally immune from malware. Back in January reports circulated confirming the existence of 113 Prep.
Executing the 'malicious' app just reveals it to say 'shoes' and nothing else. Although deleting it does also deleted some files which in turn breaks some applications.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20708/53/
Confessions of an iPhone Convert
TidBits' Joe Kissell says:
As I write this, it's my two-month anniversary of being an iPhone owner. (We're celebrating by taking a vacation to Italy together; my wife, who has sometimes referred to herself as an "iPhone widow," is coming too.) What's surprising from my current vantage point is that I spent a number of months fully convinced that I was outside the target audience for this device, and that, cool as it unarguably was, I simply would never own an iPhone (or its slimmer sibling, the iPod touch). When I first got my iPhone 3G, I posted some thoughts on what had persuaded me to change my mind (see "Totally an iPhone 3G owner," 2008-07-17). Now that I've lived with it for a while, I've learned that I was right about some things and wrong about others - and some aspects of the iPhone experience (both good and bad) have surprised me.
If you're thinking about joining the millions of (usually) happy iPhone or iPod touch owners but are still on the fence - or if you, like early-2008 Joe, think it just isn't worth it, perhaps you'll find my observations helpful in deciding one way or the other.
You can check it out at:
http://db.tidbits.com/article/9774
Potential iPhone Usability And Interface Improvements
Appleinsider's Sam Oliver reports:
A new series of iPhone-related patent filings touch on some interface enhancements that could potentially find their way into a future version of the handset's operating system, including more immediate access to application settings and interactive notification panel that presents a list of communications missed while the phone is in a locked state.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/3qljxc
iPhone Auto-correct Puts Euro Tongues Out Of Joint
The Register's Jan Libbenga reports:
A Swiss web design company Fruahjahr, based in Lyssach, has launched an online petition to disable auto-correction on the iPhone. To many non-English users this has become an even bigger nuisance than bad 3G reception or low battery life.
It is almost impossible to write an email or an SMS message on the iPhone in a language other than English - the phone 'corrects' your words into English as you type. Truncated words are also problematic.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/18/petition_against_iphone_spelling/
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