iPhoneApalooza

Twitter and WWDC Effect
Monday is Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference and Geekdom anxiously awaits the rumored announcement of iPhone 2.0. If you’re thinking about using Twitter for something important, you might be up a &8$% creek. Twitter may have taken on 15 million business partners recently but probably not in time. If history is any indicator, the number of Apple geeks twittering WWDC will once again cause the Twitter service to buckle under the pressure. (Incidently, if you are thinking of using Twitter for something important, let me know. I would love to write a post about it.)

Update 6/10: C|Net had an article yesterday regarding Twitter going into “battle” mode for WWDC. For the most part it worked. I jumped around from MacRumorsLive.Com and Twitter. From what I’ve been told by people that followed the entire event on Twitter their were several instances of features that stopped working, but the overall Twitter service managed to go down only once and briefly at that. Good on Ya Twitter! (Oops, should have kept that down, their probably all still in bed)

Photos of iPhone 2.0 Leaked?
CrunchGear released today what they believe is a legit screen cap of an ad mock-up for the new iPhone that they, among others think will be revealed during the conference. Do I think there will be a tricked out video and exchange enabled, 3G sporting iPhone announced? Probably. Do I think the ad is legit? I doubt it. I noticed something about it and so did a commenter to the post. Anyone who has ever gone through the painstaking task of creating a clipping path in Photoshop will notice that the (RED) version of the iPhone in the screen cap does not include the locking mechanism on the top of the phone. A dead giveaway that someone with way too much time on their hands went to the trouble to create this. I could be wrong, but I certainly wouldn’t risk any dead presidents on a bet.

Update 6/10: Uh….Told Ya So

VOIP on My iPhone? Oh Yeah!
I found another fetching iPhone article on CrunchGear about a little company called iCall that has developed an app that will switch a standard iPhone cell call to VOIP (voice over internet protocol) if you are near a WiFi hot spot. T-Mobile has been offering something like this for some time now and I have really been looking forward to the day when I can do the same with my iPhone. I conduct a lot of business calls on my iPhone from my home based office, I would love to be able to kill those cell minutes from Ma Bell’s invoice.