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Video of My First 60 Seconds Typing On iPhone (Subject: Rump Shaker)

My first sixty seconds of iPhone typing were spent typing the lyrics to Rump Shaker. While listening to Rump Shaker. It’s not bad when you hunt and peck by index, but it’s terrible by thumbs. A minute later I found a typing method that gave me nearly 100% accuracy. (Video to come.)

Apple iPhone Dismantled

The crazy folks over at Think Secret took apart an iPhone. They’ve got 49 shots of the process, but we just wonder how many shots they’ll need to put the thing back together. iPhone Takeapart [ThinkSecret]

iPhone: Entering Kool-aid Central

Picture this. We’re heading in to buy our iPhones, and what do we see? A massive wall of Apple employees, clapping and cheering and offering high fives to all. It was a very surreal, and frankly scary experience. Remind us never, never to do that again, even if the Jesus Phone rises a second time.

iPhone’s YouTube Ad Tested Over EDGE (Verdict: Surprise!)

We were actually “surprised” that the video loaded as quickly as it did. We were in EDGE, so the quality was downgraded, but the experience was shockingly close to the Apple ad. Score one for the Jobs-man. Seriously, we were not expecting such an easy job.

Snaps With the iPhone

Here’s a little demo of the iPhone camera feature. Say, who are those two lovely guys on the first photo? Working hard, from the looks of it! The iPhone zooms and slides easy, and the pinch, after you figure out which way you’re going, is nice and smooth. The gyroscope is great for landscapes and…

Apple Store is Now Up

Go get your iPhone. Without waiting lines, but limited quantities. So hurry up. Wait, don’t hurry up. Now the checkout is frozen. Oh, there, it’s working now. No. It’s not. Apparently, a gazillion people are accessing it now, so good luck.

iPhone Touch Typing: Day 1

Click to viewOK, it’s just Day 1. Whether I turn out to be a Mossberg (typing is “a nonissue”) or a Levy (“Maybe I’m a spaz”) remains to be seen, but on my very first outing it took me a while just to type a simple text message. (1 down, 199 text messages to go!)…

In Case You Missed Our Live iPhone Unboxing

We assume you tuned in at 6:15pm EST and caught us live—without sound. (Sorry gang, but this was beta to the max.) In case you didn’t, though, you can watch the camcorder version, with a rockin’ soundtrack.

iPhone Activation Screen Gallery

Thanks to Flickr, they’re probably all out of order, but here they are, the shots of the easy-as-billed iPhone activation, minus a few shots containing personal data. What I liked was that when I entered my iTunes account login, it pulled up all the necessary info, and didn’t even ask for credit cards or anything.…

Work Days of Two Hours (1923)

Today’s section of the February 12, 1923 article, “Thinking Men and Women Predict Problems of World Century Hence,” was written by engineer Walter N. Polakov and predicts a future workday of just two hours. The engineer lives and works for tomorrow; today is but a stepping stone. The dreams of engineers – Frontinus, Da Vinci,…

Our iPhone Pics: Pre Activation Gallery

Haven’t activated it yet, but here are the first shots after our wild n’ crazy live unboxing. Stay tuned!!!

Accessing Reader.mac.com From an iPhone

Reader.mac.com is live now. This is a capture of what you get when you try to access the reader.mac.com address directly from an iPhone. And yes it’s an RSS application that handles your feeds’ URLs in iPhone’s Safari. Just enter the feed address and the app at reader.mac.com will handle the representation of the XML…

SF iPhone Line Does The Wave (Bonus, Sarah Meyers Takes off Her Shirt)

In case it wasn’t clear how long the SF iPhone line is, check out this video where we got them to do the wave. How? By giving them T-Shirts. Stick around for the very end. You know why. We’re getting pumped up, since it’s almost our turn to get in. Video by Sarah Meyers and…

iPhone Live Unboxing NOW

Update 3: New video up! Update 2: It’s done. Sorry about the lack of audio. We’ll try and update later with a better video. Update: The stream’s up, but there’s no audio. Stick around kiddies, because we’ve got a live unboxing of the iPhone here coming up in about 20 minutes, right at 6:15 PM…

Futuristic Air Travel (circa 1900)

This painting by Harry Grant Dart is one of my favorite images of the paleo-future. According to the Library of Congress it was used as the cover for an issue of All Story magazine between 1900 and 1910. The most revolutionary aspect of this image may be the depiction of a woman at the wheel.…

How does the Helio Ocean stack up to the iPhone? Helio shows you in table form. [Helio]

SF iPhone Store Closes to Much Moaning, Bitching, and Gnashing of Teeth

What are these people angry at? No, it isn’t not being able to get an iPhone, it’s not being able to get into the Apple store when they closed it down at 2PM to prepare for the 6PM launch. Apparently either some people’s watches were a little off, or Apple closed the store down a…

Apple Store Offline, iPhone Launch Underway

The Apple online store is shuttered, and the iPhone launch is now officially underway. Will there be accessories for the iPhone at the Apple Store that we haven’t heard about yet? We’ll have to wait until 6 p.m. Pacific Time to find out. Apple Store

iPhone Fans Flood Fifth Ave Store (Video)

The gates finally opened and the ravenous masses spilled inside. Pacman was up first, of course, and the rest followed in his wake. Finally, after days of waiting, those who left their paying jobs will finally be able to spend a ton of money and walk out with their brand new iPhones. Hope Greg’s card…

The Apple Store iPhone Line Campers Are Familiar With the iPhone

We thought it was a little strange that the first person in the AT&T iPhone line didn’t know anything about the iPhone, but we’re glad to hear that it’s not widespread. You see, the people who camped at an Apple store-proper? They know about the iPhone. See as they nail just about all the questions…