After a day (wasn’t working for me yesterday) playing with the iPhone 2.0 update I’m pretty happy with the lastest round of changes.

I’ve been playing with Twittelator, twitterific and Exposure apps this morning and they are all really well put together.

iPint is just eye candy for showing off to your mates (how long will they pretend their Sony Ericssons are good enough?).

I would love to be able to create these types of apps but for not I’ll stick to begging for someone else to do it. I will forever be in their gratitude/will definately pay if someone could help with the following apps…

• Keepass
• Adium
• Google Earth - Street View
• last.fm

If anyone hears of any efforts that are currently under way to port these apps could you please let me know??

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• Starbucks rolling out free Wi-Fi for iPhones, slowly - Some iPhone users have reported that the newly launched AT&T hotspots are offering free Wi-Fi access to all iPhone users, as long as you have a valid iPhone phone number with the provider. Unfortunately, the situation is not quite as straightforward as one might hope.

  

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• 1,000 rentals? iTunes finally makes it - 63 days after the deadline, the Store finally delivers 1,000 movie rentals.

  

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On Wednesday, we reported that AT&T had begun offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users at many of their national Wi-Fi hotspots, including Starbucks and Barnes & Noble locations. No official announcement had been made.

Some iPhone users have reported that the newly launched AT&T hotspots are offering free Wi-Fi access to all iPhone users, as long as you have a valid iPhone phone number with the provider. Unfortunately, the situation is not quite as straightforward as one might hope.

The Wall Street Journal claims that Apple is actually losing money with each new-release movie sold on iTunes. Apple announced yesterday that they would now be offering many movies for sale on iTunes on the same day as their DVD release.

We’ve mentioned a bunch of surveys in the past that have shown that iPhone users lurv surfing the web and using the media functions of their handsets, but there’s another feature that appears to fly under the radar, and that’s the iPhone’s camera. I just had a discussion about this with a friend last night, who commented—completely subjectively—that the iPhone took the best pictures. There are certainly phones out there with better cameras, but the iPhone makes it pretty easy—and, at times, fun, even—to take your pictures and upload them to an Internet sharing site like Flickr. Which is why it’s not exactly a shocker that the iPhone has become the most popular cameraphone on the photo site, topping the former champ, the Nokia N95. As Flickr itself points out, the data is hardly foolproof, since it depends on the camera itself reporting the information—Flickr says they usually get some data about two-thirds of the time. Still, I know that I’ve found my iPhone’s camera features handy and easy-to-use, and I’ve uploaded a few pics to Flickr in the past, so I’ve got no trouble believing that plenty of others are as well. [via Computerworld] Copyright Mac Publishing LLC. This RSS feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you're not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you're looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact webmaster@macworld.com so we can take legal action immediately.

The BBC is off to an incredibly strong start as it begins selling selected TV shows through iTunes in the U.S.

So, the rumors had been floating around that because of Starbucks’s switch to AT&T for their Wi-Fi provider (ditching former partner-in-crime T-Mobile), iPhone users would be able to surf the web without paying a single dime. But anecdotal reports are not enough to sate this blogger—I needed first hand proof. And so I stopped by just outside of the Starbucks near my home—I’m not allowed inside anymore, after an unfortunate incident with a half-caf mocha latte—and fired up Safari. Sure enough, the screen at the left greeted me, asking me to enter my 10-digit phone number. I managed to scrounge that up from my increasingly unreliable memory and pop it in. Blammo—yes, that’s precisely the sound it made—I was online. For free! Don’t get me wrong: I’m not about to switch back to Starbucks just for the free iPhone Wi-Fi. After that traumatic coffee-related mishap, it just doesn’t feel safe to me, anymore. But it’s handy to know that the next time I’m stranded and the EDGE connection just isn’t cutting it, there’s somewhere I can turn. On every street corner. In the United States. Copyright Mac Publishing LLC. This RSS feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you're not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you're looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact webmaster@macworld.com so we can take legal action immediately.

Sometimes it's annoying to have to use Mail on my iPhone to review a PDF, Word or Excel file I received a couple of days before. I wanted to have permanent access to some of my inportant files (roadmaps, notes, lists etc.) even when I can't go online. All you need is a jailbroken 1.1.3 (or newer) iPhone, an FTP client on your Mac, and the "Safari 1.1.3 Patch" for your iPhone (see the Big Boss' repository: "Adds file:// support for local files viewing to Safari.") For PDF: Use your FTP client to create a new folder on your iPhone in /var/mobile/Media/. Name it PDF and drag your PDF files into it. Some of them have to be renamed to meet the usual URL naming conventions. This means: no spaces, no umlauts, etc. I dragged a file named regex.pdf in there. Now I only have to type in the following URL in Safari on the iPhone:

file:///var/mobile/Media/PDF/regex.pdf

Safari can display PDF, Word, Excel, and any HTML file you put in the Media folder (...