iPhone First Impressions

The auto-suggest correction system works pretty damn well, considering it hasn’t yet had a chance to learn much about what and how I type. Most impressive touch: it knows the word “fucking”.

Lot's of people are posting iPhone first impressions today, but I appreciate Gruber's views of design and UI and so I'm sharing his with you. If I encounter other opinions that add something he didn't cover, then I'll add links to those as well, but otherwise look elsewhere for a compendium of iPhone reactions.

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Google Maps adds drag and drop for driving routes

fishwreck has been asking for this one for a long time!

Don't like the driving route Google Maps doled out to you? Now you can change the driving directions by grabbing the blue route line and dragging it to create a new destination point, which will in turn create a new route.

Thanks Lifehacker.

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Web radio says royalties could kill it

New royalty rate hikes could kill Internet radio, station managers, a country musician and head of an independent record label told lawmakers Thursday.... Though only a fraction of a penny, the new rates are a 300 percent cost increase for large webcasters and a 1,200 percent increase for small operations.

Don't let corporate greed kill a good thing: Save Net Radio.

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I've even done favors for Apple employees

This is, by far, the BEST coverage of the iPhone I have seen yet -- featuring "America's number one technology expert" Henry Winkler on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

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Internet radio webcasters plan silent protest

On Tuesday, thousands of U.S. webcasters are expected to go silent to protest the planned royalty rate increase by the Copyright Royalty Rate Board.

Support Internet radio while you still can. The new rates make no economic sense whatsoever. It represents the kind of stupid, corporate greed that drives things to extinction -- to the detriment of all, including the greedy bastards who are too myopic to see their own self-interest.

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A Friendly Reminder from your IT Department

The 12 commandments of IT? I know this is pretty much how the net admin runs things where I work.

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First Apple iPhone shipments arrive stateside

Armed guards are extremely unusual for freight coming out of the Asian sector, those familiar with the matter explained, and are typically reserved for shipments containing riches such as gold and diamonds.

Good grief. Gold and diamonds?

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