Apple's great customer service comes through! A few days ago my iPhone stopped responding to any and all inputs. Even iTunes would not see the device. Well, Darrin, the Apple genius guy, was able to get my old iPhone working but still exchanged it for a brand new iPhone just because of all the issues I had with my old model.

Turns out my old iPhone was still under warranty so everything was covered under the original warranty. Still, it makes me wonder what will happen if I have issues with this phone, especially since Apple does not extend the warranty out when the phone is exchanged. Already, it seems that it's not super-responsive and isn't pulling my e-mails as seamlessly as before (I have to keep pressing refresh before any mail shows up). Still, I'll chalk it up to breaking this new iPhone in, but if it doesn't work perfectly in a week or two I might be taking another trip to the Apple store.

I'm off to the get some documents notarized and filed with the City of Boston so enjoy this video of a brand new iPhone 3G getting blended.

Have an awesome weekend everyone!

Check it out iPhone visitors, this blog is now super iPhone friendly. This blog appeared 99% fine in Safari on the iPhone before [some videos wouldn't play due to lack of Flash] but now it's optimized so the text fits perfectly on the screen. Sure, all the advertisements and other personal theme stuff goes away but that's OK because I know Edge can be wicked slow so anything to make the blog load faster on mobile devices is OK with me.

Credit for the iPhone optimization goes to the great team over at contentrobot and their iWPhone plugin and theme.

Here's a few screenshots of how the blog now looks on an iPhone:

What do you think? If you've got an iPhone or iPod Touch, this plugin should make reading this site a lot easier and nicer of an experience. Let me know if you have any suggestions, issues, or any other thoughts!

Lately I've felt the need to get rid of a lot of clutter in my life, both physical and digital and operate on a more minimalist spectrum. I've spent the past few days organizing e-mails, catching up on RSS feeds, and centralizing my files. Let's take a look at twenty of the Mac applications that I just tossed out. Why? Well, you know what they say. Oh you don't, well you better start paying attention, they rule the world you know.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

So let's see if there's any hidden treasures among my trash!

• Emacs

I prefer Aquamacs, though there is certainly nothing wrong with Emacs.

• Meetro

Meh, AIM, facebook, twitter, and pownce are enough (in fact more than enough).

• Tomato Torrents

I prefer Transmission though Tomato Torrents works fine Transmission seems to be faster and better organized.

• Launchbar

Quicksilver rules. Launchbar just did not seem to be as extensive or as intuitive as Quicksilver and thusly in this household we obey the shortcuts of Quicksilver!

• Joost

Joost is a great idea, but at the moment there is not enough good content to take up my hard drive space and time.

• Vienna

Now that NetNewsWire is free I much, much prefer it to Vienna. While NNW was not free Vienna performed admirably but there's just no need for it now.

• Aptana

Looks cool but a bit beyond my league at the moment. Might go back and download this later as I learn more but right now it's just clutter.

• Colloquy

See Meetro above. My geek status will lose points for not having an IRC client installed but I can live with it for now. Besides nearly everyone I know is on AIM or twitter so I won't be losing touch with anyone.

• Comic Life

Cool but frivolous. In essence this program allowed you to comic bookize your photos by adding speech bubbles and comic book style actions.

• iProcrastinate

I didn't use this once. I knew I wouldn't when I downloaded it but I installed it nonetheless. No wonder I struggle to get things done sometimes.

• Keynote

30 day Trial I never deleted from when I got my Macbook Pro a year ago.

• Pages

See Keynote.

• NewsFire

See Vienna.

• Vendetta

This game looked really cool but also time-consuming and I just don't have oodles of free time (contrary to popular belief, quitting your job does not give you tons of free time) to devote to learning the intricacies of this game.

• RSSOwl

See Newsfire and Vienna.

• q [QEMU]

Yeah, I really just never needed this, see Aptana but much more so.

• ircle

See Colloquy.

• Tofu

Good idea but in the end it's just another application that rarely gets used adding to my digital clutter.

• Stickies

I use Devonnotes for all my note taking needs. It's an awesome program btw. Didn't really use stickies enough to comment on them one way or the other but it seemed functional.

• ecto

Cool program but don't have the monetary flow to buy it right now. Anyone know any good free open-source alternatives?

Any programs up there that I should give another try?

Did you know holding the control, alt/option, or command/apple keys while hovering over links in Apple's Safari browser on Mac OS X brings up new options?

For instance, holding control will bring up a menu (the 'right click menu') when you click on a link.

Holding the alt/option key while hovering will download the linked file once you click.

And finally, holding the command/Apple key while clicking a link will open it in a new tab. If you didn't know these tips before, welcome to the club as I just accidentally discovered them and thought I'd share them here with you.

Know of any good Apple/Safari keyboard shortcuts? If so share them below.