Today I wanted to get my iPhone 3G. Finally, after so many times running to the shops and looking at all these models I was ready for the iPhone a month ago. I did not get it at that time, because my current contract was running until the end of August and it was suggested to me to wait until that time. Two weeks ago I went to Softbank again and made a reservation for an iPhone. At that time Softbank allowed to take reservations and I was glad they did, never knowing for sure if you get the phone or not. 

Today was the big day. Yes it is Sunday and in Japan it is like every other weekday only more people at the mall and shops. This afternoon I went to the mall, lots of people there looking and shopping. I got the the Softbank counter and had to wait. Click to continue »

woot! or better woo.com you might know. It is the place that offers a deal a day. Now if you like to know the deal of the day, or shall I say the days woot, you can visit there site, run a widget on your desktop or uses this app for your iphone.

WootWatch was not developed by woot.com, but that should not stop you. What you get is the most important information. Picture, short description, item name, shipping details and if it is sold out or not. 

“Woot! stuff goes on sale Click to continue »

Plum Amazing has announced its new iPhone app for audio recording, Plum Record. Picture or text tags can be added to sound files at specific intervals to be used as reference markers. Recordings can be automatically or manually named, put into different folders, or transferred to a Mac using Click to continue »

Dial Zero helps you dial the customer service numbers of over 600 companies from your iPhone. But why you want it?

Here’s the setup- back in July I had a total failure of my 500 GB backup harddrive. OUCH!

Fortunately after a total meltdown last fall I had created a redundancy system so very little of my data was  actually lost. I called the company that makes the hard drive and, since it was only a few months old, they told me to send it to them. They promised to attempt to do a full data recovery but, if that did not work, they said they would at least fix or replace the drive. Click to continue »

I continue to be amazed by the stream of excellent app updates flowing into the App Store and out to us. Sure there are the requisite bug fixes but most of the time it is for more than that. Most of the time it is developers making their apps even more fully-featured or useful. This is the case with the new update for Tap Tap Revenge.

Tap Tap Revenge is best as “Guitar Hero meets the iPhone”. While music plays “beat bubbles” flow down one of the three strings in time. If you tap the bubbles as they crosses the bottom you get Click to continue »