A feature I'd like to see in the iPhone

The iPhone keyboard. Already let's you hold down letters to get a menu of accents and whatnot. This was delivered in the 1.1.1 update. What i'd like to see is the ability to hold down the .com button in the web address bar and get alternate options, such as .net and .org. This could be done on a per keyboard. Basis, so the US English keyboard would have .us as an alternate, and the UK keyboard would have .I'm and .co.uk. Just a thought to make my and I am sure somebody else's life easier. Please, Apple? As a Christmas present?

About the iPhone/iTouch SDK...

I was thinking about the iPhone. I have not yet seen any FM radios for the iPhone, nor any special things that plug into the standard iPod 30-pin connector. Then, I got it. All of those companies need the SDK to make their devices work. Ergo, nothing third party plugs into your iPhone.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your compilers...

Google is offering $10 million in prizes to developers that can write apps for the gPhone (now Android). I think that they may use the open-source licensing of the operating system to bundle some of the best apps with the phone. For example, the productivity apps item on the list seems mighty like some of the features on the iPhone, and I think that Google may decide to add a "your software is now open-source" clause to the prizes

Two other items also caught my eye. They are:

• Media consumption, management, editing, or sharing, e.g., photos (emphasis mine)
• Gaming

If you are going to be doing editing on a mobile phone, or any mobile device, so help you god. It's hard, even with a touch screen. A phone is no place for image editing. The gPhone does run Linux, so it may be able to run the GIMP, though.

Quite frankly, and with regards to gaming: unless you are going to be playing tetris on this phone at super-sluggish phone speeds, this phone is going to have a dedicated video card. Just like the iPhone. And if you are going to do 3D games, you may need a better video card than the iPhone, because the iPhone does not have OpenGL. 2008: Who's phone has a bigger, better video card. This is something that the other phone providers are going to get in, like, 2012.

Overall, I immediately see one problem with the gPhone: some devices have touch screens and no keyboards, some devices have normal screens and physical keyboards, and some are abominations and have both touch screens and keyboards. Google's android website says that everything right down to the dialer is going to be able to be swapped out, so... are people going to be able to swap out the keyboard? Oh, and another thing: there is not going to be a version without the keyboard program customized for physical keyboard phones; Google chose to use the Apache license, which requires the whole project to be distributed. Oops.

I am planning to download the SDK as soon as I get my Linux Kernel working (it won't load right now; The recent xkcd comic makes me suspicious, although I think it was just an update), and I think some, if not all of my questions will be answered.

Amazing things you can do with an iPhone and a Bluetooth Mac

Just because the iPhone does not have any bluetooth services enabled does not mean that you cannot do anything fun with bluetooth and your Mac! I downloaded a program called proximity to enable locking my computer when my iPhone moves out of bluetooth range. To accomplish this I followed the directions here to make applescripts that lock and unlock your screen.

Now I can officially say that my iPhone and my Mac get separation anxiety.