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Desktop Screenshot, 3/28/09, originally uploaded by richlin71.

* Rounded screen corners: Displaperture
* Wallpaper
* Drive icons: Ive Drives
* Other icons: Pry System
* Adium theme: HUD
* iTunes controller: Bowtie with Typographic Blurred theme
* Growl theme: iPhonesque (Black)
* Dock: Finder, Quicksilver, Safari, Mail, iCal, iTunes, PandoraJam, Adium, Skype, Address Book, The Hit List, LittleSnapper
* Menu Bar: LittleSnapper, Dropbox, SugarSync, Skitch, Bowtie, Eye-Fi Manager, TextExpander, Evernote, Synergy, MobileMe, MenuMeters, Scripts, Display, Sound, VPN

it’s been a good month.

love the ending to this article. it sums things up nicely:

In 2006, the year before Apple unveiled the iPhone, Ed Colligan, Palm’s chief executive, brushed aside the notion that Palm had anything to worry about from new entrants like Apple. “I would just caution people that think they’re going to walk in here,” he said.

“We’ve struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he added. “PC guys are not going to just knock this out.”

Apple, the novice, didn’t merely walk into the business. It climbed a 10-meter platform and executed a back two and a half somersaults with two and a half twists in the pike position.

Palm’s turn.

link: For Palm, Some Tough Smartphone Acts to Follow – NYTimes.com

omg, i was obsessed with this game as a kid! i totally forgot about it until now…

Speck SeeThru Satin Case

Nokia, RIM, Google/Android & Microsoft all have plans to create their own app stores. Good luck catching up.

• Customer base: 30M devices (17M iPhones, 13M iPod Touches)
• 25,000 apps available (and the pace is accelerating)
• 50,000 developers — 60% of them new to Apple
• 800M downloads in the first 8 months
• 70% of mobile web use is from Mobile Safari
• iPhone OS 3.0 and a new iPhone model coming in June

the kindle version of this book is free for the next 5 days. it’s got pretty good reviews, too. read it on your kindle 2 or your iphone/ipod touch with the kindle app installed.

Amazon.com: World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to Spread Your Ideas and Share Your Stories: David Meerman Scott: The Kindle Store

Nokia needs a strong smartphone, else it’ll be relegated to mostly dumb handsets.

4Q07-4Q08 Growth (%):

• Nokia: -16.8% (to 40.8%)
• RIM: +84.9% (to 19.5%)
• Apple: +111.6% (to 10.7%)

Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth Rate With 3.7 Per Cent Increase in Fourth Quarter of 2008

hot off the presses, an unboxing video of the new Sprint Treo Pro: Sprint Treo Pro Unboxing and Hands-on

it highlights the new Mobile IE 6 browser about 3:20 into the video. 2 points come to mind:

1. it’s almost comical compared to the mobile safari browsing experience.
2. it looks exactly the same as IE did on my tmobile dash from 2 years ago.

the rate of apps being developed for iphone is accelerating…and overall, the quality seems to be getting better.

Apple’s App Store: 25,000 apps and counting – Apple 2.0