Can't wait for an iPhone? Build your own cut and fold paper model

For the truly desperate, here's a layout and instruction sheet to cut and fold your own iphone (pdf).

[sneakmove - they've also got a diy cut-and-fold ipod nano case!]

Library Books - useful little Mac application to monitor your library subscriptions

Library Books is a small Mac OS X application that puts a listing of books you've currently borrowed or reserved up in the Menubar. You can subscribe to multiple libraries, receive notification of overdue books and access the online library catalogues.

It's thoughtfully designed and surprisingly easy to set up. Libraries in Australia, US, UK, Germany and other countries are listed, in addition to some generic catalogue systems. I haven't been able to get the Melbourne City Library going yet (any ideas?), but have connected to Boroondara and Melbourne University.

It's free and definitely worth trying - particularly by all those recently retired babyboomers catching up on reading!

iPhone keyboard operation - interesting Apple tutorial

The non-physical keys of the Apple iPhone offer fantastic advantages of standard phone keys, but some think this may be the greatest weak point of the device. The early reviews do suggest it will take users several days to adjust, but in the end this should not be an issue.

This Apple iPhone keyboard tutorial is worth looking at to get a feel of the iPhone and understand the different software mechanisms to make text entry accurate, e.g. anticipating specific mis-hit errors and changing the key target area according to predictive lookup of words.

New (dog-related) Apple iPhone ad (video)

You've probably see the Apple iPhone ads - in a class of their own.
Here's a new one that shows how the iPhone can stream YouTube videos.

MacMINI in the case of SE/30

Here's someone who's fitted a Mac Mini into an old SE30 case
using the original greyscale CRT monitor.

http://www.kaede.sakura.ne.jp/~kidou/mac/macmini01.html