I just found the greatest trick to redeem some space on you iPhone without having to dock your iPhone. I use it to delete video podcasts once I am finished watching. Also, it works when you are perusing your email and you want to delete an email without opening it… I’m looking at you spam. I may have been living my life under a rock for the last year, but I haven’t anyone talk about the delete function that is baked right into your iPhone.

Here is how you do it.

1. As you are looking at the list of your email, find one that you want to delete.
2. Place both thumbs over that message and then spread them apart. Think of a reverse pinch.
3. A red ‘Delete’ button will appear.
4. Hit that button and voila, that email disappears!

That same action works in you podcast library, and I am sure in a lot more places.  Explore and let me know what other places it works.

I am in line in Rogers Arkansas at one of the AT&T stores waiting for the new iPhones. I didn’t spend the night because I am not so crazy about getting one which has put me a long way back in line.

Now that Apple and AT&T have dropped the price and the uber-geeks have had one for a year now, the nature of the line has changed. This new phone with its lower costs marks a change in the nature of the common iPhone owner.

My prediction is that this version of the iPhone will be the next Razr. You know, the phone that you see everywhere. That does take away some of the cachet of owning one, but who cares, I am still excited about getting one, though I may not be able to get one today.

Stay tuned, and you can see a picture of the line on flickr. My flickr username is murdog. Sorry I don’t have the address to the pic itself, but I am uploading this post using my Blackjack…ironic

UPDATE:———
Well, if you were following me on Twitter then you no doubt know that I didn’t end up getting an iPhone. Some people on the Internet are speculating that AT&T is rationing its supply of iPhones so that they will have stock throughout the weekend. From what I heard from the people at the AT&T store I was at, I can’t find any proof that they are wrong.

There was something fishy in how cagey the managers were at AT&T. They were pretty “sure” that there would be more iPhones available in the morning. If this is true and they are rationing the phones and thus screwing the people who took the time to line up on the first day that the phone came out just so they could have some to sell on Saturday…that is not ok.

Obviously there is no proof unless someone from AT&T spills the beans on this, but there were striking similarities in experiences across the nation today as I scanned the blogs.

Apple stores had around a thousand iPhones on hand while AT&T stores had from 50 to 75. That is a big difference in numbers. The closest Apple store is two hours away. It would be ridiculous to drive that far for a phone that will miraculously appear on the shelves of our local AT&T store tomorrow morning.

I don’t know. I don’t know why this has made me so mad, but it has. Come on AT&T this looks terrible for your customer service. Quit assuming that customers will put up with your shenanigans forever. We won’t. Stop being ridiculous…

South by Southwest is three conferences all rolled into one. First there is South by Southwest Interactive. It is focused on web and web development. It is the biggest geek party on earth. Mouth-breathers, neck beard-ers, and the socially inept let their hair down for a week of partying and passing out business cards. If you are a web startup…you have to be there. I wish I could have gone. Judging by all the twitters and blog entries, it was a lot of fun.

SXSWi lasts for a week. After that the South by Southwest turns into a music and film festival. The people there are a lot more mainstream, and the contrast in the atmosphere is quite funny. Justine Ezarik has been there during both phases of the festival and did a man on the street that is entertaining.

To listen to the Web 2.0 crowd, you would think that everyone is into this, but apparently that couldn’t be further from the truth.

One of the biggest complaints that people had about the iPhone has just been sorted. I am keeping track of Engadget’s coverage of today’s Apple iPhone event. According to Phil Schiller, Apple’s WW Product Marketing muckety-muck, says that Apple has integrated Microsoft’s ActiveSync technology into the iPhone making it complete compatible with corporate email infrastructures.

Now if you are a corporate drone, it is now possible for you to get your corporate email. That is a big deal because there is a huge number of potential iPhone customers out there who have averted purchasing an iPhone because it won’t work with their company’s email system. RIM, the maker of the Blackberry, has made its entire business model out of being business friendly. Now that the iPhone is corporate friendly, the mobile phone market is really going to change.

The iPhone has already gone a long way in changing the mobile phone ecosystem. It has shown people what is possible when you really put a lot of care in the design of your handset. Everyone I know who has ever purchased an iPhone loves it. The main sticking point is that it hasn’t worked with corporate email until now. Now that iPhone works for business world’s are colliding.

The event is still going so I don’t know if Apple has made any statements about 3G roll out, but if they do then the last of the major sticking points is gone. That will leave only the lack of a hardware keyboard as a problem. The keyboard issue will never go away, so you will either have to write that one off or buy a different product.

I downloaded the latest firmware for my iPod Classic 80 GB and as soon as it was installed on my iPod, it no longer turned on. Ouch. I was excited about the new movie rental option and now my iPod is broken.

I wonder if this firmware was rushed out in order to make it available in time for the Steve Jobs keynote.

The good news is the iPod is still under warranty. The bad news is that I am going to be without an iPod for the next week.

I am a HEAVY iPod user. I use it everyday, and it is going to be missed. With the writer’s strike going on in Hollywood it is where I get all my entertainment.

Am I the only one who is having these problems or is it more widespread?

If you have any interest in the iPhone, Apple, or Steve Jobs, then this is a must read.  It is an article by PC Magazines Sascha Segan.  It will shed some light into a possible falling out between Sir Steve and the AT-AT.  Very interesting…very interesting indeed!

One of the biggest complaints about the iPhone is its recessed headphone jack. It is back inside a hole which prevents users from using the type of headphones they choose.

iPods normally come with decent headphones, but most people end up purchasing a new set that better meets their needs.

After watching all the coverage of the iPod Touch release, one question remained. Did Apple make the same mistake with the Touch as it did with the iPhone.

Engadget posted a hands-on earlier today that seems to answer the question. This picture of the bottom half of the iPod Touch appears to have the standard iPod headphones plugged in. That is great news!!!

Guided Tour Of The New iPod touch

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