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Apple Lifts 3G VoIP Restrictions for iPhone Apps : "Apple has updated the iPhone developer SDK to allow VoIP over cellular networks." Anyone read "Google Voice" into this?

Access Google Voice from the iPhone via Safari : " Filed under: Software , Internet , Internet Tools , iPhone Earlier today, Google made a mobile web version of Google Voice available for the iPhone. To understand the significance of this move, here's a bit of back story. Apple pulled all Google Voice related apps from the App Store back in July , which led to an FCC inquiry , which led Apple to claim they had not rejected but were 'studying' Google Voice , which Google contradicted . The biggest surprise in the whole scenario is that AT&T said that they had no problem with Google Voice on the iPhone. Months later, there's still no official Google Voice app in the App Store. You can view the long version of the story here . The mobile web version announced today (iPhone 3.0 required), while not the first, utilizes HTML 5 to accomplish some new and impressive tasks. For example, it lets you display your Google Voice number on outgoing calls and provides easy ...

AppleInsider | Steve Jobs: Apple a $50B company, excited over 'major new product' So many rumors, so little proof. What will Wednesday bring?

AppleInsider | Offbeat: Steve Ballmer signs MacBook Pro - running Windows, of course : "Ballmer gained attention last September when a Microsoft employee at a private company meeting snapped a picture of him using an iPhone. Ballmer grabbed the phone and made lighthearted remarks while the onlooking audience booed. He then put the phone on the ground and pretended to stomp on it. After the incident, one Microsoft employee said of the situation: 'You just don't pick up the CEO of Chevy in a BMW.'" What a perhaps unwitting but good choice of car to use as an example. Cheap vs. High End.

Why does this matter to me? My fingers are a tad large so I need accuracy. I have never really had any issue with my iPhone. Anyone else? Droid doesn't. Have touchscreen accuracy, that is... : " Filed under: Hardware , iPhone Now there's a nicely-documented fact that you can throw back in the face of that annoying friend of yours who got a Verizon Droid and who keeps saying 'It's just like an iPhone!' According to a report cited on AppleInsider this morning, the touchscreen accuracy of the iPhone is much better than that of three Android phones: the Motorola Droid pushed by Verizon, the HTC Droid Eris, and the new Google Nexus One. Why is that important? Well, when you're trying to tap a link on a website, for example, chances are very good that you're going to be successful on the iPhone and not on the the Android phones. The tests, performed by MOTO Development Group (no relation to Motorola), measured touchscreen accuracy with a si...

Use mouseover highlights in Snow Leopard's Stacks | Mac OS X | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld : "To use mouseover highlights on an as-needed basis, you just need to change how you activate your Stacks. Instead of clicking on your Stack and then immediately moving the mouse into the Stack area, click-and-hold on the Stack icon until your Stack appears. Now when you move into the (grid or fan view) Stack, you’ll see a mouseover highlight effect (a blue background in fan view; a silver one in grid view)."

Lifehacker reports: WineBottler Turns Windows Programs into Standalone OS X Applications : " Mac only: Wine has always been popular among Linux users for running Windows programs, but Wine is available for Mac, too—and now, free utility WineBottler can "bottle" Windows programs into separate application bundles that run as standalone Mac apps. To use WineBottler, just download a Windows EXE, then drag and drop it onto the WineBottler app. You can install them in a fake C: drive located by default in your home folder, just as you would on Linux, and run them from there easily. However, if you want to create a standalone application bundle (so that you can give a Windows program to a fellow Mac user, for example), WineBottler will create a separate bundle with Wine included inside, so your friend doesn't have to have Wine installed—the app acts just like any other OS X app. Note that just like in Linux, not all Windows programs work in Wine—so you'll have to see fo...