Newton’s Lore

It seems amidst the discussion about iPhone 3G call dropouts someone has actually bothered to do an antenna test.

Head on over to The Consumerist to see photos of what happens when an iPod nano decides to explode whilst charging.

via boingboing.net

A Gartner survey shows that Mac sales in Australia grew 52% in the last quarter

Remember, it’s already tomorrow in Australia!

I’m not sure that Time Machine’s going to prove much use to me if it spends longer than a weekend “Preparing backup”. Maybe if I left the machine backing up all week and only used it on weekends? Contemplating nuking the backup and starting from scratch as that way at least it’ll not have to do any comparison with the existing backup.

Meanwhile Spotlight is claiming that it’s 3% done indexing the backup volume and has 49 hours remaining. Sigh. I just added the backup volume to the list of things not to index (Why doesn’t that happen automatically?), and I got an error dialog. But re-opening the Spotlight preference pane shows the volume was added anyway. Now it’s still indexing it, but claims it’s 1% done and only got 3 hours remaining.

I’m thinking it’s time to fire up Superduper.

An article on Crikey bemoaning the journalistic reverie about the iPhone.

So it turns out that tucked away on the Apple Store is a page about Apple Australia’s recycling program. Basically if you’ve bought a Mac at the online store, on the phone or at the Sydney Apple Store they’ll take away your old gear.

Presumably though you couldn’t buy an iPod nano and get them to take away a pile of junk, although it does mention requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. No UPS’s or cracked or naked CRT’s either.

There are 12 cool iPhone tricks here on iSmashPhone, and another 8 here. I only knew one or two of them, well worth checking out.

Also, Google Translate for iPhone.

Via Macintouch.

Valleywag reports that uber-hardware-hacker Steve Wozniak may have got hitched for the 4th time, apparently to Janet Hill.

One wonders if they have his and hers Segways? Hacked iPhones?

via David.

If you were frustrated at getting your iPhone/iPod Touch/MobileMe activated over the weekend you weren’t the only one (although I’m sure you could have found something better to do!). Someone took the time to come up with an “I’m an iPhone” video, and JoyOfTech also had a take on the BlackBerry schadenfreude, short lived though it was. Or check out “How to get broke by buying an iPhone”
Meanwhile, Australians weren’t left out of the picture with a certain phone company’s activation system going offline before the launch. Which was probably better than Optus (i)phone users in Queensland being unable to dial emergency 000.

Some folks on MacTalk.com.au mentioned (and probably compiled) this Google spreadsheet containing an Australian iPhone 3G pricing comparison.