Jason Chen

How to Comment: Commenter Hall of Fame

Joining our commenter hall of fame today is homerjay, who’s made great comments for over a year now. The one that put him over the top was this, in the iPhone Sighting Video post: Do you really think your iphone experience is going to be any different from this video? Its not like chicks are…

Apple’s iPhone availability tracker lets you know which stores have the phone in stock, and which have been sucked dry by iPhone campers. [Apple]

Dealzmodo: Five Free Blu-ray Movies With Player Purchase This Summer

Similar to the HD DVD deal a while back, the Blu-ray camp is offering five free Blu-ray movies when you buy qualifying player. The 21 titles (some listed after the jump), can be chosen from if you pick up a BR player between July 1 and September 30. We’re not sure which players qualify yet,…

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We relive the glory days of baseball cards with the Rated Rookie T-Shirt, turn all our keys into one thanks to the Keyport Slide, and humiliate our friends by making them sit in the Easy Dunker. We then make our escape in the Escapade Pedal Boat, get some rest in the…

Steve Jobs to give company-wide speech tomorrow at 11a.m. PST; no further details. [Engadget]

CEA says 36% of U.S. to have HDTV by 2008 [TG Daily]

Quittner exposes how much traffic blogs like this one make from iPhone news [Netly News]

iPhone campers won’t be the only ones sleeping near an Apple store Thursday night, employees are there too. [Apple Insider]

Brando’s Wii Cooking Mama Attachments

If you thought the Wii billiard attachment was ridiculous, check out the Wii Cooking Mama kit. It’s for the new Nintendo Wii game that lets you use the Wiimote to pretend to cook, and come with four attachments: frying pan, knife, fork and spatula. https://gizmodo.com/the-wii-billiard-accessory-272426 This won’t improve your actual or virtual cooking skills, but…

Gridskipper’s iPhone Campout Maps

Speaking of peeing in the city (see post below), Gridskipper’s ultimate iPhone campout maps will let you find a bathroom, a Wi-Fi hotspot, eats, hotels, and other necessities while you’re waiting in line for the iPhone. Gridskipper Guides

Mizpee Finds a Toilet in the City

Had to run into the city for a meeting but can’t seem to find a toilet? Enter MizPee. Either visit mizpee.com in your phone’s web browser or text your city and state (e.g. “New York, NY”), to 415-350-2290 and MizPee will give you a list of toilets near you. It even specifies a bathroom’s cleanliness…

Made in Eureka Contest Two: Win a TiVo Series 3

Hey non-iPhone fans! If winning Apple’s newest baby isn’t your thing, we’ve got a new contest sponsored by Eureka where you can win a TiVo Series 3. https://gizmodo.com/contest-reminder-win-an-iphone-272889 No difficult invention designs this time. We’re just doing a trivia contest, and all you have to do is answer the questions correctly and we’ll pick from…

Unconfirmed: Third Party Native iPhone Apps Coming

There’s no confirmation other than some guy’s word, but Macapper says third party native (Cocoa) iPhone apps are coming soon. Apparently, during one of the WWDC evening parties, an iPhone engineer responded, “Yeah. There will be” to the question of “are there going to be third party Cocoa apps on the iPhone.” The iPhone engineer…

Firmware update 1.82 for the PS3, enabling “the playback of AVC High Profile (H.264/MPEG-4) files”, is coming soon. [PS Blog]

Geek Sugar replicates the Nintendo 64 video with the iPhone [Geek Sugar]

SplitFish FragFX PS3 Controller Reviewed (Verdict: Mouse on a Console Done Right)

Those of you playing first person shooters on the PS3 but suck at using the SIXAXIS to aim were probably looking forward to the SplitFish FragFX, the half controller, half mouse contraption. How well does it work? Pretty darn well. And it’s customizable too. https://gizmodo.com/splitfish-fragfx-mouse-controller-for-ps3-245810 You can assign the mouse to control the camera view,…

Contest Reminder: Win an iPhone

We’ve been getting great entries for our Made in Eureka contest. You guys must really want an iPhone ;). We’ve got another example of a great entry here by Sean Ross for a holographic rear vehicle display. It’s got three states, left or right turn, stop and stolen (which is triggered by the car alarm).…

iPhone FAQs For Current AT&T Customers: All Customers Eligible For iPhone

There’ve been plenty of details on how you buy an iPhone and sign up for AT&T service if you’re not a current AT&T customer, but until now current users have been jabbing in the dark about what they have to do. Well, AT&T’s finally put up a FAQ, and what a great FAQ it is.…

Ghetto Japanese Cellphone Holster

Did you think cellphone holsters were going out of style? Think again, my friend. The Japanese have taken everything that was old and made it new again, and this time their Dirty Harry-style metallic cellphone holder will keep your cellphone safe from train gropers of all ages. Best of all, it’s only $25, so you’re…

Everything We Know About the iPhone

Following up our list of features the iPhone was finally confirmed not to have, here’s a comprehensive list based on the four reviews currently out detailing everything we know about the iPhone so far: what it has, what it doesn’t have, its known problems and what we still don’t know. https://gizmodo.com/finally-confirmed-what-the-iphone-doesnt-have-272571 What it has: •…