Charred Tech

So the dust has settled and in a few weeks we will be able to get our hands on the new 3g iPhone. This past month the internet has been shouting about the $199 price like crazy, celebrating the price drop whenever the iPhone is mentioned, but what they don’t mention is that this price is only with a 2 year contract.

Apple Fanboy Christmas is here! That’s right Steve Jobs has just announced the new iPhone 2.0 at the World Wide Developers Conference at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. The new iPhone will include 3g network speeds, have metal buttons, a black plastic backing, it will be thinner at the edges, have flush headphone jack, feature improved audio, improved battery live which gets 5 hours talk time or 5-6 hours while browsing, and it also includes GPS. The iPhone 3g will be available in many new countries; most of South America, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Czech, Switzerland, Leigch, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta, Croatia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, and Turkey. 70 countries total. A new lower price was announced it will now be sold at $199 for the black 8g model and at $299 for the 16g model available in white. Available July 11.

This years hottest venture has to be Twitter.com, you can’t visit a blog or turn on a podcast without reading or hearing about it, TWiT fans know what I’m talking about. The service has been going up and down lately which in turn has created even more buzz as it seems every site has to report on it going down. For the unenlightened I’m tempted to describe Twitter for you as a microblog, but if I hear that term again I’m gonna throw something, so I’ll describe it as basically a collection of Facebook status messages, you have the ability to follow people and read the posts they make throughout the day, in turn people can follow you and read yours. But this isn’t meant to be a post about what Twitter is, you can Google it if you want more

So my birthday was back at the beginning of this month, so I decided to get myself something nice and after some research decided on the Apple Tv. Now note that I only have a Jvc 32″ old tube Tv, it is a common misconception that the Apple Tv only works on widescreen HDTvs, this is not technically true. It works fine on my Tv, it plugs in using composite cables, I don’t have a receiver so I just use the a red & white RCA input for sound . The only downside is the picture is a bit squished and vertical black bars show on some videos. This device has changed my Tv watching habits. After a little hacking I’m now able to SSH into the device and transfer my own video files to the hard drive, allowing me to watch formats that the ATv wouldn’t normally display. Recently it was updated so that I can now rent movies, purchase Tv shows, and even watch Youtube. Though one of my favorite things to do is browse video podcasts on iTunes, I can watch Diggnation or Totally Rad Show whenever I want, and I can listen to Twit while playing WoW. I recommend picking one up if you love to tinker with electronics like this and with all the hacks that are out makes this one nice little hobby device.