Davis Farris

Most tech people have heard about the new AT&T wifi at Statbucks. I was very excited about this. I stopped going to Starbucks because if I wanted to use the Internet I would have to pay $10. Yea, not worth it.
The otherday I was in McDonald's drive-thru and I decided to get on my iPhone as they were taking a while. And what do you know, I left my battery eating wifi on. I was excited to see that McDonald's had the free AT&T wifi. Hopefully this means that more than just McDonald's and Starbucks have this service.

For you iphone users:
To log on you are directed to a special page that you enter your 10 digit phone number. You are then sent a text messages (no charges apply for that text) with a link to the Internet.

For all you non-iPhone users:
Good luck. I have not tried this with anything other than my iPhone. If you have please comment back on the process.

It has been reported by many sites such as The Unofficial Apple Weblog, The Apple Blog, Gizmodo and Engadget that a Flash player, created by Adobe, would be coming for the iPhone. What do you think?

At the beginning of the year in March there was much speculation that an iPhone suitable Flash player would be out on the market for download.  CNN Money was one of the first to announce Adobe's plans to begin work on a Flash player for the iPhone.  Why is it so hard to create a Flash player for the iPhone.  The drawback at the time for Adobe was the iPhone SDK.  Belgian iPhone coder Thomas Joos already created a Flash player for the iPhone.  You can see the video at the bottom of this post.  Yes, he created this Flash player but it was not approved by Apple and it was being run on a hacked iPhone.  Still, no real version of the Adobe Flash player for the iPhone.

Since the iPhone NDA was dropped Adobe will have a better chance of creating a Flash player.  It was just recently that many of the sites listed before are reporting that Adobe will try again.  Mike Downey on his Adobe blog said:

"Adobe has evaluated the iPhone SDK and can now start to develop a way to bring Flash Player to the iPhone. However, to bring the full capabilities of Flash to the iPhone web-browsing experience we do need to work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK and the current license around it. We think Flash availability on the iPhone benefits Apple and Adobe's millions of joint customers, so we want to work with Apple to bring these capabilities to the device."

Because of Apple's strict policies it is up to Apple to follow through and allow the Flash player to work on the iPhone.  

We will see if Adobe will create a Flash player for the iPhone.  It won't be a disappointment if nothing happens, again.  All of us iPhone users can hope for a Flash player and all those non-iPhone users can hope as well so they don't have to hear us iPhone users complain for the player.  

I came across an awesome application for the iPhone/iTouch a few days ago.  The application reMovem, previously known as Jawbreaker, sells for $0.99 and at that price you can't go wrong. You're sitting outside of class waiting, you can't think of anything to do.  Go ahead, pull out your iPhone or iTouch and buy away.  This will be the most entertaining game you will buy.

This game is much more addicting than it looks.  You will tell yourself only one game before bed or before you go into the classroom but one game soon turns into many.  With the full version ($0.99) there are many game options for you to choose from and each of them are different.

From the info screen you can choose those different game types, how many colors you want (4-6) and turn on the hints and symbols.  You also reset the stats from the info screen.  The navigation is simple as seen to the far right.

The first of the two images is an example that the more balls you have touching, the higher the score will be.

For $0.99 this is an excellent game that will keep you entertained for hours upon hours. Go get it at the App Store now!