Well, I’ve heard the horror story of the century on this one.  A brand new customer of AT&T hoping to get his grubby little hands on the new and improved 3G iPhone is thwarted by crappy customer care.  Seriously folks that happened.

I was talking to my older brother yesterday about why he didn’t have his new iPhone and his fiance did.  He tells me that he got screwed out of one by the manager and one irate customer.  Now he has to wait until the new shipment comes in, and hope that the manager actually remembered to put one aside for him again.  Oh and also hope that another bitching customer doesn’t demand for his device.  Does he get a discount on his iPhone?  He most certainly does not!

Best of luck to all those who didn’t get their iPhone on time.

Oh, and Apple sold 1 million of their devices in the first three days, Woo!

A couple of weeks ago Apple announced plans for a new iPhone.  Word is that they filed a patent to have solar cells on portable devices.

Outfitted with such technology, Apple’s devices, like the iPhone, could have photovoltaic cells stacked underneath LCD touch screens, thus maximizing the area available for harnessing the sun.

You’ll be able to see your device’s solar cells performance information on the main screen next to the battery power, text message alerts and clock.

 

One related product is the 6.4-ounce Solio Mg, $200, from Better Energy Systems. Its three magnesium blades fan out to reveal solar panels, which can store enough power to charge most phones and PDAs twice; an hour of clear sun will give most cell phones 25 minutes of talk time or an iPod an hour of playing time. It takes ten hours of direct sun to fully juice the device. (See Off The Grid But In The Game)

Also, the world’s first solar bag–the Voltaic Systems’ Generator laptop bag–is covered in solar cells and can charge a laptop. It generates up to 14.7 watts after a day of direct sunlight, can carry a 17-inch Apple Powerbook and comes with adapters that allow other electronics, such as cell phones, to be charged.

 

So go off-the-grid with Apple’s new patent, which is said to be out on the market with their new generation of iPhones.

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As a daily Mac user I love posting these adverts, but this one is a little out there.  Mac has its issues, I haven’t encountered any since I am still on the G4 and running the fine-tuned Tiger.

On the Windows side of life, have you heard about Johnny Knoxville helping out on the Windows side?  Apparently Knoxville is going to take on Justin Long.  That is just what I hear, but I sure do hope it’s true.

This “lovely young woman Tonya” was featured on BoingBoing yesterday for her “I love my Mac” music video.  The blogger over there had said:

Speaking as a daily Mac user myself, kudos to this lovely young woman Tonya who has completely captured the ethos and spirit of the average Mac user. Mac users can be dorky, too, haters!

To be quite honest though, I am a daily Mac user and the first thing that came to mind is, “how obnoxious it is for other Mac users to beat that stereotype.”   I take my Mac nearly everywhere, but I definitely don’t act like an ass in the process.  Granted, my Mac is better than the Windows options, but that is my opinion.  I cannot stand those Mac users who think they are higher than thou just because they have a Mac.  On top of that, who wants to be known for being dorky?

Another designer advert for the designer brand.  Anyone care to say otherwise?

Apple is just showing off the iPod’s ‘new’ fancy maneuvers, let me know when they get a bigger selection of memory.  Starting out with the 8 Gb and now the 32 Gb?  Yeah right, still too small for the amount of stuff you can put on it.

Any could easily fill that little gadget up, and not with just porn.. C’mon people that’s not what Apple intended, is it?  What perverts.

I do [in most cases] like Apple’s choice in music.

These three chaps got together to make a gadget band using the Nintendo DS and the fine products by Apple.  The applications used are: iAno, Pocket Guitar and a game called Electroplankton for Nintendo DS.

Pretty neat so I posted, plus I had talked about the iAno yesterday.  These three consider themselves the first iBand, so challengers thinking they were first get out there and YouTube it!

Check out their homepage here.

Here is a simple video for one of Apple’s iPhone applications.  Pretty neat application, but there are far better uses for your $500 iPhone.

You can find more webapps on Apple’s website.

I have seen many MacBook Air parodies since the release of it, not really paying attention to them but this one caught my eye.  Thin as hell.  Even the response on BoingBoing cracked me up, “The corners just slay me.”  Decent video though.

Here are a few campaign promises that Barack Obama can actually achieve.

The top ten list of Obama campaign promises:

10. To keep the budget balanced, I’ll rent the situation room for sweet sixteens.

9. I will double your tax money at the craps table.

8. Appoint Mit Romney secretary of lookin’ good.

7. If you bring a gator to the White House, I’ll wrassle it.

6. I’ll put Regis on the nickel.

5. I’ll rename the tenth month of the year “Barack-Tober.”

4. I won’t let Apple release the new and improved iPod the day after you bought the previous model.

3. I’ll find money in the budget to buy Letterman a decent hairpiece.

2. Pronounced the word nuclear, nuclear.

1. Three words: Vice President Oprah.

I just got done watching the video, and all I have to say is gotta love Obama. I’ll be the one to bring the gator to the WH, just so I can film him wrassle it for YouTube.

I simply just wanted to show you this video, I thought it was funny.  The guy actually covers all of the iPhone features, so if you are having problems figuring yours out, you should probably watch this.

I know I have posted numerous other iPhone videos, but this one is just a music video, so hit me on my iPhone.

Here are a couple of the iPhone commericals

iPhone Street Commercial | Bryce “Delay”
iPhone Street Commercial | Blogger; The Winger
Apple iPhone Street Commercial | Internet
Apple iPhone Street Commercial | Visual Voicemail