I Was This Close

I came so close to unlocking my iPhone this morning, but I just couldn't pull the trigger. Shooby has unlocked his using iUnlock - the free unlocker from Harro Inc. the iPhone Dev Team. That's a picture from his phone showing T-Mobile as a carrier - he posted the news on Pownce. I got as far as running iFuntastic on the phone (Windows users should try the scarily named, iBrickr) but it didn't quite finish completely, and I just don't have the nerve to run iUnlock on it now. It would be great to cancel this AT&T account (instead of cancelling my dormant T-Mobile account), but it would be even better to show an unlocked phone to the perennially skeptical Scott Bourne. Maybe I'll get up the nerve later today.

iPhone Day

I thought I'd just stop by the AT&T store at noon just to see if there was a line. There was, and fearing I wouldn't get a phone in time to review it for Saturday's radio show I got out my folding chair and joined the line as number 13. Six hours later I got my iPhone. This is the last video from my poor old Nokia N95.

Smug reporters get theirs. Film at 11.

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Posted via Palm

For some time I've wanted a way to Blog via e-mail. I thought it would be cool to post from the road via Blackberry. Still can't do that with Greymatter, my blogging software, but thanks to AvantGo I can create entries on my Sony Clie and they'll be posted when I sync. I have to write in Graffitti, which is kind of painful, but at least it's mobile! Next: an AvantGo channel.

Don't Go To L

A very interesting story is developing over L computers. We talked about it a little on The Screen Savers last night. I'm sure we'll be talking about it more in the days to come. The L site has attracted a lot of attention lately. It's a very slickly designed site, strangely reminiscent of Apple's page. The computers themselves are all from stock parts, but very weird stock parts: overclocked PIVs, solid state hard drives, refrigerator coolers, combined in unusual and even impossible ways (e.g. a PCI Express based RAM drive on a stock Intel mobo). Forbes, MacCentral, and others seem to have been taken in by the promises of this company, although, as far as I can tell, no one has ever used an "L" computer. When I saw the site all sorts of alarm bells went off in my mind. After reading Sam Swett's very thorough expose of the company and its founder, I'm even more suspicious. I hope none of you have sent money to this company. If not, I would definitely wait for confirmation that they can actually manufacture these machines before giving them a credit card number. Do visit the site though - it's a pretty masterful piece of work that will leave you asking, "what the L?"