I was stunned last year when AT&T wouldn’t let me get an iPhone 3G for my wife at the “discounted” rate. And by discounted rate, I mean the rate that they advertise everywhere with the star and fine print next to. However, even though I had documentation showing I had not used an equipment discount for 2 years, they refused to give me the discount.

But they have taken it to another level this year. The iPhone 3GS is being released on June 19th as you probably have already heard by now. So I went on to the AT&T site to check my upgrade status figuring that surely after 3 years, I’m eligible to get an equipment discount on that line. However, I’m presented with some obscure message about being able to take advantage of “no commitment pricing”. What is exactly is that? You mean the unadvertised over the top retail price.

What the… So even after 3 years now I still have to wait another month before I can get the discount on the iPhone 3GS? I will be calling AT&T about this next week so I’ll update this post if anything changes but I just couldn’t believe that.

But now to the real problem. I bought the iPhone 3G last year for my line with a discount and Apple/AT&T were fine with giving 1st generation iPhone owners a discount because they knew this was the strongest part of the user base. If someone was willing to drop $600 on a phone the first year, you know they are coming back to upgrade.

However, this year is different. If you purchased an iPhone 3G last year when they were released, you won’t be eligible for an upgrade discount until December. Let me see if I understand this correctly. The same people who were camping out and waiting in lines for hours wrapped down the street and around buildings are the same people you are going to make wait until December to get the advertised price on the new version? I can’t believe they didn’t consider this. Would it really hurt either company to drop the term between equipment upgrades down to 12 months?Especially since they are obviously on a 12 month release cylce for the iPhone product.

This is why I don’t think you will see people camping out (maybe in the crazy downtown New York and California areas) and standing in long lines for the iPhone 3GS. I know for sure I won’t be.

Maybe if these companies should spend more time focused on improving their products and services and less time with the lawyers and marketing departments figuring out ways to squeeze more and more money out of their customers.

Reading anything on the Internet has become a full-on nightmare. As media outlets attempt to eke out as much advertising revenue as possible, we’re left trying to put blinders on to mask away all the insanity that surrounds the content we’re trying to read.

It’s almost like listening to talk radio, except the commercials play during the program in the background. It’s a pretty awful experience. Our friend to date has been the trusty “Print View” button. Click it and all the junk goes away. I click it all the time and rarely print. It’s really become the “Peace & Quiet” button for many.

Readability is a browser bookmarklet (sort of like a bookmark on steroids). You can install Readability by visiting the Readability setup page.

On Mac OS X I use CyberDuck for FTP and TextMate as an editor.

In case you are on Windows, though not as good, you can use FileZilla and Notepad++ and accomplish a similar setup and functionality.

This is the perfect combination and the price is much better than Dreamweaver. CyberDuck is free and a license to TextMate is only $56. The windows combination is completely free.

The syntax highlighting on TextMate is great and when you start using the bundles and snippet functionality of TextMate, you’ll quickly realize what you’ve been missing.

If you have any stories about using this setup, feel free to share. Or if you have used a different combination of tools (other than Dreamweaver) lets hear it.

dscacheutil -flushcache

Hosted Exchange

Pros:

• Integrates well with Windows OS & Outlook (only a pro if you use them)
• ActiveSync keeps an open connection so what you are looking at is always the most recent status of the data
• 3rd Party Providers - Companies can license the exchange platform and resell the services. This creates competition and that is always good for the user.

Cons:

• The only full integration with Hosted Exchange can happen in Outlook (this could be a pro if you prefer Outlook)
• Setup can be tricky if you aren’t a Windows/Outlook power user
• ActiveSync requires an open connection so this can be a power hog on mobile devices

MobileMe

Pros:

• Cross Platform support - Integrates well with Mac OS X and the Mac suite of apps as well as supports Outlook
• Fully integrates with iPhone
• Easy setup
• Sync’s Email, Calendars, and Contacts but ALSO allows for file storage, photo storage, etc.
• Better online web application

Cons:

• Only works with iPhone (if you are using a different mobile device… too bad)
• No competition - Apple owns and offers the technology but no one else is able to host it for you

The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any future references to this resource SHOULD use one of the returned URIs. Clients with link editing capabilities ought to automatically re-link references to the Request-URI to one or more of the new references returned by the server, where possible. This response is cacheable unless indicated otherwise.

The new permanent URI SHOULD be given by the Location field in the response. Unless the request method was HEAD, the entity of the response SHOULD contain a short hypertext note with a hyperlink to the new URI(s).

If the 301 status code is received in response to a request other than GET or HEAD, the user agent MUST NOT automatically redirect the request unless it can be confirmed by the user, since this might change the conditions under which the request was issued.
W3C Hypertext Transfer Protocol

This is particularly useful for search engines like Google, which will carry over page rank to the new page if this status code is seen. If you do not need to indicate permanent displacement, you can accomplish redirection by setting a Location header in PHP. The location header does the actual redirection to the new location, and can be used by itself.

If you set the Location header by itself, PHP automatically sets the status code to HTTP/1.1 302 Found.

Note, if you attempt to send headers after content has been sent, you will get a warning like, “Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by …”. Watch out for empty lines and spaces between PHP open and close tags.

Here is the code to do this in PHP…

<?php
// Permanent redirection
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.example.com/");
exit();
?>

Just make sure you put these lines in your page before any other content is sent out. The http://www.example.com/ part can be changed to whatever the new address for this resource is.

The only problem is that each device OS has a different location to find this serial number. This article explains how to find the serial number in your iPhone device. It will also work for the iPhone 3G since they use the same operating system. And it should also work the same for the iPod Touch.

1. From the main screen on your iPhone/iPod Touch, tap the “Settings” icon.
2. On the Settings screen, tap the General section.
3. Now tap the About section.
4. Scroll down a ways and you will see an item for “Serial Number”. That’s it, read that off to the support person and you’ll be on your way.

1. Launch Terminal and type the following command: sudo nano /etc/hostconfig
2. Find the following entry in the hostconfig file: SPOTLIGHT=-NO-
3. Change SPOTLIGHT=-NO- to SPOTLIGHT=-YES-
4. Save /etc/hostconfig by hitting Control-O and the return key. Next hit Control-X to exit the nano editor.
6. Disable the Spotlight index by typing the following in the Terminal: sudo mdutil -i on /
7. When you reboot, Spotlight will be enabled again.

If you would like to disable the Mac OS X Spotlight feature, follow our guide on How To Completely Disable Mac OS X Spotlight.

To do this, follow these simple steps.

Note that some other Mac OS X features and programs are based on Spotlight’s search abilities, therefore some applications could behave abnormally if you disable Spotlight, particularly in search functions.

Important: These instructions were created based on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. They may work on previous or future versions of OS X but they may not.

1. Launch Terminal and type the following command: sudo nano /etc/hostconfig
2. Find the following entry in the hostconfig file: SPOTLIGHT=-YES-
3. Change SPOTLIGHT=-YES- to SPOTLIGHT=-NO-
4. Save /etc/hostconfig by hitting Control-O and the return key. Next hit Control-X to exit the nano editor.
5. Disable the Spotlight index by typing the following in the Terminal:
   sudo mdutil -i off /
6. To erase the current Spotlight index, type: sudo mdutil -E /
7. When you reboot, Spotlight will be completely disabled.

If you find a need for Spotlight later, follow our guide on How To Re-enable Mac OS X Spotlight.

There are lots of ways you can make a to-do list into something that actually gets done. Often when people get to the point when they are writing it, they are doing a brain dump. They just have to just get things down on paper. But to get to the point where you’re checking things off, you want to make it a do-able to-do list. Things need to be as easy for yourself to do as possible. So you have to break things down into tasks. We sabotage ourselves by writing down things like “Plan the anniversary party” or “Learn French.” Those are projects, not tasks and don’t belong on your to-do list.
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