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iPhones Get Sun, Leg Power
Girl Gets Head Stuck Down Toilet Attempting To Rescue Dropped iPhone
Making Music With An iPhone
Apple Approves Commodore 64 Emulator For iPhone
AT&T Agrees To First Constantly Connected Third-party iPhone App
Competing Visions: Apple, Google, and AT&T Have Different Priorities
iPhones Get Sun, Leg Power
The Register's Rik Myslewski reports:
Two new alternative power sources for digital gadgets such as the iPhone and iPod touch have just surfaced - one powered by the sun and one powered by you (and your bicycle).
You can check it out at:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/04/alternate_power_sources_for_gadgets/
Girl Gets Head Stuck Down Toilet Attempting To Rescue Dropped iPhone
Editor's caveat: If you find bathroom humor too indelicate for your sensibilities, perhaps best to skip this next item.
There's an old joke about construction workers on a jobsite placing a plank over an open pit to use as a temporary latrine. As the story goes, one fellow ventured over for a relief break and found a co-worker standing on the plank fishing around in the pit with a long stick.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"Dropped my coat in the hole," came the reply.
"Well, you won't want it anymore after its been down there."
"I know, but my lunch is in the pocket......."
That story came to mind as I read a news report in Britain's The Sun which proves that truth can sometimes be almost as strange as fiction, relating the tale of an 18-year-old young lady who got her head stuck in portable toilet at last weekend's Leeds Festival music concert while attempting to retrieve her cash and iPhone which had unhappily dropped in, and remained wedged there for a stomach-churning 20 minutes before firefighters pulled her free.
Presumably she would've preferred to acheive her proverbial 15 minutes of fame in almost any other way, but the newspaper reports that more than 2,000 people have now joined "Poo Girl" appreciation groups on Facebook, and she's enough of a good sport to pose for the Sun.
The unfortunate young woman explained: "My bag had my phone, train ticket and all my money in it, so if I left it I wouldn't have been able to get home and I would have been stranded."
For the full report, with photos, click here:
http://tinyurl.com/mzja6g
Making Music With An iPhone
The Age's Garry Barker says:
Is there nothing an iPhone cannot be harnessed to do?
Today we are attending a session with British pop singer and songwriter Gary Go, whose single, Wonderful, topped the US iTunes store last month.
Of the song, a pleasant enough ballad, I have no opinion but Go's use of the iPhone and a number of musical apps pounding sound through his electronic music system is impressive.
He says that with ever more musical apps being built for it, the iPhone is becoming "the Swiss Army knife of musical composition.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/2835757/Making-music-with-an-iPhone/
Apple Approves Commodore 64 Emulator For iPhone
Appleinsider's Prince McLean reports:
A previously rejected iPhone title offering emulated play of Commodore 64 titles has been approved after the developer made changes to align it with Apple's SDK. It allows the iPhone to act as a system that was what was once Apple's staunch competitor.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/nptnq9
AT&T Agrees To First Constantly Connected Third-party iPhone App
Appleinsider's Katie Marsal says:
With users' permission, the social networking iPhone application Loopt will report the phone's current location even when the software isn't running, based on a new agreement with AT&T.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/m8xkx9
Competing Visions: Apple, Google, and AT&T Have Different Priorities
Low End Mac's Tim Nash says:
A previous article, FCC Investigation of Apple's Google Voice Rejection Could Become a Political Mess, looks at why the FCC should let the market decide.
A small world seems to be split between Google lovers and Apple lovers over Google Voice for the iPhone. Any AT&T lovers are staying well hidden.
To read more, click here.
http://lowendmac.com/nash/09tn/apple-google-fcc.html
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