Called it.

Oh, and the deal with Carphone Warehouse is mentioned in the article, too. Like I mentioned last month.

Booyah!

First off, it's tough to do this when you keep finding new apps that you decide you must own. I mean, sure, they're free (at least the ones I get), so no biggie, but still.

Anyway, on to the first round of...

This week, I'll be eliminating 10 applications, so grab your scorecards and get ready to start choppin' after the break!

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I just realized I have about 75 applications installed on my iPhone... and, on a good day, I use 4. Maybe. At best.

So, starting next week, I will be eliminating a few apps a week in something I call...

I'll likely eliminate applications randomly, until I get 'em down to a manageable size. I will also be only going through my free apps, which is everything but Super Monkey Ball. I will relinquish Super Monkey Ball after I am beaten to death with a wooden cooking spoon.

After the break, the iPhone App Survivor! scorecard. Follow along at home, and bask in the super-nerdism!
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Although I don't have a new iPhone (with the 2.0 software working on my iPhone: Original Recipe, I don't see the point), I did go stand on line for almost 8 hours with my friend Zubair to get him one. I took the time to try out a few applications I had downloaded for my iPhone the day before, one of which being Kyte Producer, which allows you to broadcast photos from your iPhone for some sort of Flash-based slideshow o' swank from their website.

Anyway, here's the whopping 4 pictures I took in my 8 hours on line. Enjoy!

Over at MacRumors.com, there's a bunch of talk about The Boy Genius Report's claim that Best Buy and Radio Shack will begin to carry the 3G iPhone. Although I have no idea why Radio Shack would get involved with this (who goes there to buy anything more than a funky cable nowadays, anyway?), I can actually see The Blue Monster scoring it under everyone's nose.

According to an AP article I dug up, Best Buy's purchase of a 50% stake in Carphone Warehouse, a European cell phone distributor that Best Buy had previously teamed up with to help create Best Buy Mobile, was completed on Monday. Where this ties in, of course, is that Carphone Warehouse is an authorized iPhone distributor overseas. Add to that the love that Apple has been getting from Best Buy in the recently, and you may have an actual story here.

Ice-cold glass of iced tea? Check. Quicktime stream available? Check.

Looks like it's time for a dead-blog!

In less than a half-hour, Steve Jobs will take the stage at the World Wide Developer's Conference and unleash all sorts of new goodies onto the world, including (most likely) the 3G iPhone, the iPhone App Store, iPhone 2.0 firmware, and, maybe, a new Mac mini replacement.

If you wanna get up-to-the-minute updates about the thing, you're at the wrong site. You'd likely wanna hit up MacRumorsLive.com, or follow TUAW on Twitter (for as long as their servers can hold up). If the video of the keynote is up when I get home, I'll be dead blogging it tonight.

AT&T's Mobility CEO said in a press conference today that all the company's smart phones will be 3G within the next few months. When asked if this included the iPhone, he said, and I quote, "Fool, I said all my smart phones. I pity da foo' who don't listen to what I say!"

Well, that's what he woulda said, if the AT&T Mobility CEO was Mr. T. Sadly, that is not the case.

Anyway, it looks like the 3G iPhone will be coming soon, as I Twittered (and the rest of the world actually posted about) when it became apparent that Apple stores all over the place were out of stock on the current generation iPhone. But, I suppose it's nice to have some confirmation of some sort, none the less.

Just over two weeks ago, everyone's favorite Mac Daddy spoke to Apple shareholders about how Adobe Flash, which is used in some form on about 70% of the internet, will not be coming to the iPhone any time soon, as the mobile version isn't "real Flash" and the desktop version is too much of a resource hog to run effectively on a phone without killing the battery power. Of course, what with a majority of sites using Flash, and the iPhone as being advertised as "not the mobile internet; the real internet in your pocket," how Flash can continue to be missing escapes me.

However, Adobe's CEO, Shantanu Narayen, said that they're actively working on a Flash client for the iPhone with the recently-released software developer kit, and will distribute it through Apple iPhone App Store.

"We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone," Narayen said. "We have evaluated (the software developer tools) and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves."

Of course, all Apps in the iPhone App Store must be certified by Apple, and if El Jobso doesn't want Flash on the iPhone, I'm sure they'll find a way to deny Adobe's application access. Whether or not this will begin a massive nerd war has yet to be seen.

UPDATE: Adobe has issued a statement saying, in effect, "We're sorry Mr. Jobs, we don't wanna mess with you. Please forgive us, and let us make our unimportant software for your all-important iPhone. We love you." Wieners.

When someone does a play-by-play of an event that they're at or watching on their weblog, it's called live-blogging. However, oftentimes I'm working or sleeping or doing something else while said event is going on, so live-blogging isn't an option.

That said, every so often I'll watch something online later and want to comment about it in "real time," anyway, but the blogging community makes no provision for that in their narrow definition of a "live-blog."

So, I decided to make one up. I introduce The Dead Blog.

Last Thursday, Apple held a media event regarding the iPhone, enterprise software, and their forthcoming software development kit. And although it was offered for streaming later that day, it only recently came to iTunes as a download, which makes it easier to watch (with it not having to buffer and all that crap). Now, although I've seen the entire thing already (I'm impatient, what can I say?), I've decided to watch it again, and dead-blog the event.

Check it out after the break.

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