This gets me everyday. I finally decided to look it up today to see exactly what it means.  Here is great explanation.

Thanks to @theiphoneblog for tweeting about this. ATT is out to get more $$ from us iPhone users like we (or our companies) don’t pay enough all ready. Now they want more if you want to tether your phone to your laptop to use as a modem. But you know, this is nothing new really. For a few years we have heard about cell companies wanting to punish tetherers (yes, I made that word up) by charging them more for data use.

So now, it looks like this is becoming a reality. Please read: http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/01/05/att-tethering-plans-drop-week/

That’s right… ATT is now offering refurb versions of the 8gb iPhone 3G for $99. That is a pretty good deal. Each phone is warrantied and guaranteed to be fixed from whatever it is that made the previous owner return it.

Now, that is a deal on the phone, but not the plan unfortunately. New service is still going to cost a pretty penny.  Here’s a breakdown of the montly cost:

Data plan for iPhone (required) - $30

450 minutes individual (lowest plan offered) - $39.99

iPhone Text Messaging Unlimited - $20

Wow, that is $89.99 a month, not including taxes and all that other stuff that they add on.  And that is ONLy 450 minutes! Although, that does include rollover which is always a plus.

I am lucky enough to have my job pay for my phone.

Ok, so I just found the coolest Wordpress plugin (for today) by accident. It is WPtouch: Wordpress on iPhone. It automatically formats your blog for an iPhone when visited… well, from an iPhone! It’s looks really cool, includes Ajax, and a very neat menu at the top. Here are some screen shots.

So, I have 3 websites/blogs that I maintain, this one, http://doubletwinz.com and http://caincreative.biz. I also have a few other domains that I do stuff with, and a few that I have been holding to do something with… some day! One of these is http://kristilecain.com. My idea for this domain is for it to be my main page, and portal to my other sites. Currently I am just testing Drupal on there which is something that I have not really used in ages. It’s ok, but it’s no Wordpress.

I would LOVE to do a cool pretty blingy flash based site, but umm.. I haven’t gotten around to learning Flash yet!  So for now, I may just drop the Drupal and do a simple nicely decorated plain old fashioned html page. GASP!!

Unless someone has a better idea for me.

I was out shopping earlier and noticed at around noon that my iPhone had no service. I turned it off and on, restarted it, etc. to no avail. Once I got home i hopped on the web and saw other complaints about the same in the ATT forum.  My service just came back on at around 3:00 pm. Some are saying it is due to weather. Could be, but that would be strange since it hasn’t rained since some time last night. Yes, there are flooding problems though.

I’m sure we will soon have an official word on what happened.

Funny thing is that while out today I found someone else’s phone (Verizon) in the Walmart parking lot. I was certain because of where it was laying that it belonged to whomever was driving the car next to me, so I went through quite a bit to do the good samaritan thing and return it. I took it to the service desk, had them page the person, then left a note on their car. Then I hop in the car and find that my own phone is not working. LOL!!

So I had tried off and on for 3 days to get Tweetdeck installed but it did not work. I kept receiving the error “The application could not be installed. Try installing it again. If the problem persists, contact the application author… Error# 0.” I received the same error attempting to install Adobe Air on it’s own. Apparently I had an older version installed already from a few weeks ago when i installed the Adobe Photoshop CS4 trial. It would not let me update.

Finally today, i found a fix that worked. If you have the same issue, download and install the “Windows Installer CleanUp Utility“.  Adobe Air will show in the list. Remove it. I was then able to install the newest version and get Tweetdeck installed.

For those that don’t know, I am a Photoshop fanatic! I use it daily for something or other, photo editing, creating logos, greeting cards, etc. etc.

The web is your friend big time when looking for tutorials on how to do cool things in PS. @darcygregoire over at http://www.darcygregoire.com posted this Tut today on creating Rays of light. I will sure be using this for a project soon!

See http://www.darcygregoire.com/2008/12/19/photoshop-tutorial-rays-of-light/

Oh, and interesting that we are using the same Wordpress theme.

As you can see by the tools in the sidebar at the right, I have started using Twitter. I have heard about it forever, but at first didn’t see the point, so I never checked it out. I just finally signed up a few days ago and have started posting “tweets”. It’s a quick way to get small chunks of info out to your friends, family, or “followers”. And thanks to some smart folks who have written good plugins, it integrates well into Wordpress. It’s great for bringing traffic to your blog.

I have tested out Twitter Tools by Alex King. It is a great plugin, but there appears to be a major bug in it causing it to just stop posting tweets when you post new blog posts. Several users are having the issue with the newest version and have downgraded to previous versions. I just turned off that function and am just using it to post my Twitter tweets to my sidebar here and on Doubletwinz.com.

For the other part, posting my blog posts to Twitter, I am using Twitme. It had issues at first too with consistency, but the author has released a new version that seems to fix the problem.

Are you all tweeting? If not, check it out, and follow me at http://twitter.com/littletechgirl.

On the iTunes store, one of the comments under Reviews says “OMG, hell has frozen over.” LOL!!!  Well, first… the name of the app is “Seadragon Mobile”. Oooooo kkkkk. I think the name of an app should reflect what it does, but umm whatever!

So what does it do?? Well, it doesn’t do much. It browses pics, that’s it. That’s the end of it. Basically, it’s pointless. There were already hundreds if not more of photography apps in the appstore, so their first attempt at an app is really, really unimpressive. It’s not even worth a full review, but I’ll at least describe a bit.

You open the app, you are prompted with categories: Art, History, Maps, Photos, Photosynth, Space, and Technology & Web.  Choose a category and browse the photos. That’s about it.

I think I will uninstall this today.