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MobileMe Launch
7/9/2008, 6pm-12am PT

As part of the MobileMe launch, www.mac.com will be taken offline at 6pm PT on Wednesday, July 9th.

Members will be unable to access www.mac.com or any .Mac services during this time with the exception of .Mac Mail accessed via a desktop application, iPhone, or iPod touch.

MobileMe will be available as soon as possible during this maintenance window.

Awesome, i recently found this site http://www.assembla.com/. This is a place where you can have your project tracking online. If you are a startup or a garage company, great place to start with. I am not sure why they are not popular. But i looked at it and i am very impressed. I started using it for my own projects already.

I recently read an article about this company Psystar which came up with a cheaper alternative Desktop rather than buying the sleep Mac Mini ($599+). This costs about $399. I am not sure how good is that. I tried to see it. The site says that ‘down due to credit card processing’. I would definitely watch this till other competitors evolve from this idea. But that’s my dream to see Steve open the pipe for variety of Hardware vendors. Time for others to make money on this OS.

Article Link: http://content.zdnet.com/2346-9595_22-197425.html

Apple finally came through the easy way for Interface Builder users to create applications. Now the steps are very simple than Beta 2 version of Hello World.

1. Open XCode and Create a new “Cocoa Touch Application”
   
2. Open MainWindow.xib by double clicking it. This launches Interface Builder with a blue background window. Design the UI with Label control and set background to something which you like.
   
3. Save and Close Interface Builder
4. Click “Build and Run” from XCode
   

Download the source: helloworldv2

As per latest moves from Apple, it looks like, there will be 3G iPhone release before the end of this month. Already, we heard that, there are no inventory of iPhones in New York stores. Looks like, Apple is selling the existing inventory and get ready for the new release.

Huffington Post News: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/25/new-york-apple-stores-sol_n_93328.html

Also, there is a rumor about AT&T stores running out of iPhones. It will be a great thing for Apple iPhone native application developers to wait till WWDC and start testing them in the new phone with 3G speed.

Rubicon released a white paper regarding the popularity of iPhone and the applications. Few intesting items are

• iPhone users are very satisfied.
• E-mail is the #1 function.
• The iPhone increases mobile browsing
• …but it has drawbacks.
• The iPhone is expanding the smartphone market.
• A third of iPhone users carry a second phone.
• A quarter of iPhone users say it’s displacing a notebook computer.
• Users are young.
• Apple sells to its installed base.
• The iPhone increases phone bills.
• The iPhone leads people to change carriers.
• AT&T’s gamble pays off.

To read more, please click here or download the whitepaper from Rubicon