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Today one of the most reputable newspapers in Sweden, DN, got on the i*-killer train.

In an article and a video, DN’s technology reporter Yvonne Edenholm discusses the Samsung Omnia, a medicre phone at best. Edenholm, however, suggests that the Omnia posts a serious threat to the iPhone. Looking at how she demoes the phone however, [...]

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I find it somewhat ironic that the new ads for Vista brings out some of the worst parts of Vista. I’m not talking about parent controls as a bad thing, they’re not. I’m talking about the text in the dialog box.

Still not getting it? I’ll lay it out for you. Why, oh, why does it [...]

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Mobile Executives on the iPhone’s Software Distribution

It seems that I am not the only one who thinks the App Store is revolutionary

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A lot of people have had problems with MobileMe, the new and better .Mac. Some have had problems with e-mail, others with slow servers and still others with billing for trial accounts. I belong to the latter group. I had around 1100 SEK reserved for a week on my credit card, and while I can [...]

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I just updated the blog post about the M600i File Mode kext (it’s still the post that draws the most traffic ), because I noted at TUAW that Mark/Space just released The Missing Sync for Symbian. If you’re still using a Symbian phone (I’m not, I use an iPhone 3G these days) this [...]

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There’s been a lot of buzz around the iPhone, and while some people (idiots mostly) adamantly assert that the iPhone is crappy, because it doesn’t have thousands of features. I don’t care how many features it has, as long as it has the ones I want, and while the iPhone isn’t feature complete for me [...]

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This seems like a pretty amazing app. I’ve heard some complaints about Swedish chars but since I blog in English that’s not a major problem.

Blogging from the iPhone also makes me realize how wonderful Markdown is. If you’re not using it, you really should check it out.

Typing using two thumbs is surprisingly good on the [...]

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I’ve had my iPhone for well over a week now, and I love it. I also love some of the great apps in the App Store, and I am very excited about some upcoming apps.

So, which are these awesome apps, worthy of my excitement?

Existing apps:

Twinkle: Awesome Twitter client from the folks at Tapulous. The best [...]

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I have it. Ever since friday I’ve been the proud owner of an iPhone 3G. My verdict? Best phone ever. As I suspected the UI is revolutionary (which, by the way, I quoted by the local newspaper as saying). The iPhone is a joy to use. Soon I hope to get my developer key from [...]

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I know everyone is dying to know what tools I use most, so here’s the evidence:

Eldalote:~ magnus$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head 116 svn 90 symfony 83 cd 43 ls 31 ssh [...]

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