iPhone + LEGO = 2 of my favorite things

The LEGO Touch is a concept which lets you play LEGO bricks on your iPhone with the multi-touch capability of the touchscreen of your iPhone or iPod Touch. It's an idea developed by PlayNYC. In theory, you could use any LEGO brick, which you choose via a “Brick-Bin” that shows you all the available pieces in a ‘Cover Flow’ style. It makes great use of the touch-screen functionality. Also, you can send your LEGO masterpiece to your friends via SMS or email.

The LEGO Touch app also allows you to enter various LEGO building competitions. The demo is a bit weird, but you can see it here. Of course, this has nothing to do with the LEGO company but I thought it was a fun idea.

via techchee

Freelancers: check out Wor.kaholi.com iPhone Web App

I've been using this time tracking iPhone web app like crazy and really love it.

A simple, intuitive, tool to make tracking client, project and workflow time convenient and simple. Perfect for all types of freelance and paid by time applications. Even works great to quickly monitor your current workday totals (then view a report to check timecard accuracy)!

Manage multiple projects for many clients all through one simple interface.

Time can be displayed as simple reports showing total project commitment or in an expanded chronological format showing each work period’s contribution.
Details

link only works on iPhone:
URL:
WorKaholiCom Time Tracker

To start using it, go to Web Apps in your iPhone bookmarks. You can add the icon to your home screen too.

Thanks to whoever made this. There's just one little thing I would love to be able to see "just today" -- instead of the last 30 days -- for each client.

How to Make Ringtones for your iPhone using your MP3s

Here's what you need to do it:

* GarageBand 4.1.1 or later
* iTunes 7.5 or later
* iPhone with software version 1.1.2 or later

1. open Garageband (I had never even opened it before, but it's easy to see what's what)

2. Select "Create new"

3. Click "Create"

4. Show the media browser

5. drag a song onto the track

6. click the loop icon


7. drag the loop around or shorten/lengthen it til you get a loop of no more than 40 seconds

8. Go to Share > Send Ringtone to iTunes

9. Connect your iPhone and sync

10. On your iPhone, go to Sounds and select the ringtone

11. Do a little dance every time your phone rings!

iPhone credit is here

you can get a $100 credit now if you bought the iPhone before they lowered the price.

Smart move or sneaky PR stunt?

here is the link

Apple Offering $100 Store Credit For All iPhone early adopters

Breaking news:

Steve Jobs has published an open letter to iPhone buyers which mentions that Apple is aware of the distress (see my earlier post!) that early buyers went through when they saw the price cut, and...
"Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple's website next week. Stay tuned."

read the whole thing here:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/


thanks to Mohit for the heads up.

iPhone disappointment

Apple just lowered the price of the iPhone by $200, only 2 months after it came out. I bought one right when it was released, and I'm really disappointed.

After all the trouble of waiting for it to be released and getting one early, I feel like we early adopters are being punished. We had to deal with ATT and Apple giving out conflicting information about their phone plans, spotty network service and dropped calls, visual voicemail suddenly disappearing for good (it was a major reason i got the phone in the first place) and now they're telling us that we paid $200 too much for our trouble on top of it all.

I feel like a sucker and certainly won't be the first to buy an Apple product again.


(if you had the same experience, I recommend going here and telling them: http://www.apple.com/iphone/share/ )