From the monthly archives:
October 2007
by James Allan Brady on October 29, 2007

It varies from carrier to carrier from O2 to T-Mobile to Orange it all varies, but they all have some rather strict limits. T-Mobile has three plans sized like your shirts, M, L, or XL with data limits of 200MB, 1GB, and 5GB respectively.
After you go over those limits your still have unlimited data, just your access speeds get throttled to 64Kbps instead of the normal speed of 220Kbps. That ...
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by James Allan Brady on October 29, 2007

Or your gift cards for that matter. Since when did one of the few nations to somewhat successfully run on a fiat monetary system stop accepting cash anywhere as an acceptable form of payments, let alone in the retail industry?
Then they decide they won’t take gift cards either, I am pretty sure its almost always been a policy to not take checks, so you are left with credit or debit, ...
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by Chris Davies on October 26, 2007

It's been a while since we've looked at Twitter apps for the iPhone, but if you've been chomping at the bit to inform every person in your hideously-bloated social network whenever you turn off the TV, buy a book or break wind, the Apple Web Apps Directory has thrown up ThinCloud, which is being called "the most Twitter-like experience you'll find on the iPhone".
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by Chris Davies on October 26, 2007

We already knew that Apple has decided to limit the number of iPhones an individual can buy in a single transaction - down from five to two - but its emerged that they've also decided that your cash just isn't good enough. Several would-be iPhone owners were turned away from Apple Store cash desks when they tried to pay for their handsets in cash; after a quick call around, it ...
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by James Allan Brady on October 26, 2007

Yeah, not a big surprise here, that notes syncing feature that was maybe going to happen, well it didn’t. Really it was just a rather big typo by Apple, but Tiger was released, and the Notes are syncing with your iPhone.
I am sure someone could script something to automatically email them to you, and then they’d be synced, sort of, but it looks like that’s as close as you are ...
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by James Allan Brady on October 26, 2007

So yesterday, we got the tip from the guy from UBS, Ben Reitzes, and that was pretty much all about the iPhone, now we have more news. Basically it’s all about finances, but there are some interesting things, first off, the Halo Effect.
No, it has absolutely nothing to do with the video game made by Bungie and released by Microsoft, it’s a psychology term, and according to Mr. Reitzes, is ...
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by James Allan Brady on October 26, 2007

So Google has decided to be a pioneer, again, and give away free IMAP support for your equally free GMail account. Why is this a big deal? Organization is easier with IMAP support because all of your tagged emails will convert into folders made from those tags, and your emails will be sorted into those folders, making it easier, and quicker, to find what you are looking for.
How does this ...
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