T-Mobile and ATT use different frequencies for 3G. T-Mobile uses 1700/2100, ATT uses 850 and 1900. You can connectivity with EDGE but you won't be able to do 3G.

Anyway, just because it's contract free doesn't mean the phone is unlocked. It probably still has the ATT SIM card restriction in place.

When you buy a brand new keyboard for less than $5, then yes $69 is expensive.

The DSi has 802.11g connectivity, just not 3G like the iPhone. In that respect at least, it is competitive with the iPod Touch which also lacks 3G.

Don't confuse the regular DS with the DSi.

If you're married to Toyota, check out the Insight. The '10 Insight doesn't quite match up to the '10 Prius in MPG, but it has a $3K lower base price. The math works out much better for the Insight.

Serenity sounds like a module where lady astronauts would go to take care of various lady business. They need to give these things more masculine names like "Power Eagle Hammer 8000 Type R AMG".

You're right, there is absolutely nothing about this that makes it iPhone specific. Any camera phone with a web browser (or any other combination of camera and web browser...) can do the very same thing.

Of course, adding "iPhone" to the title of anything suddenly makes it 100x more newsworthy in the eyes of fanboys :)

I have a pair of cheap Airlink adapters from Frys that have been running well for several months now, despite them both being enclosed in areas with poor airflow. I use them to connect the Xbox (running XBMC) in my bedroom with my router in the living room.

The connection is fast enough to play back downloaded videos with zero issues. I tried some tests using computers at opposite ends of the house and was able to get around 3 or 4 MB/s transfer between them. My 802.11n wireless network usually peaks at around 6-8 MB/s, so while it is slower, it's not noticable for most tasks and still enough to max out my FIOS connection.

You could have a connector standard that was a standard micro-USB port next to a standardized audio or audio/video port - basically break out the iPod connector into two smaller connectors. You could plug in just a micro-USB cable to the micro-USB side, just a AV cable to the AV side, or use a standardized wider cable/connector that'd connect to both simultaneously.

You can get symmetrical speeds with FIOS. Their 20/20 plan is $65/month. Of course, the usual disclaimers about limited FIOS availability apply.

I use their 20/5 plan which is $10/month cheaper. 5 Mb/s is fast enough for all of the time critical upstream I need (VOIP and the occasional video call) and it's fast enough that I can get to a >1 share ratio on torrents in a reasonable amount of time. I'd rather put that $10 into savings instead.

Sure, it's true people frequently lose power when a storm is right on top of them, but there's a long period of time where you know the storm is coming your direction but isn't close enough to disrupt your power. During this, having the TV on and tuned to the news is the best way to know how long you have until it hits and how bad it could get when it does hit, so you can make the appropriate preparations proactively.

TV is the primary source of news for a large amount of people. It's probably the only source of local news that is completely free aside from having to pay for the electrity to power the TV.

TV news is also invaluable if you live some place with frequent storms (e.g. anywhere in tornado alley). The local news often has more up to date and relevant information than the web. Radio is a fallback but the old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" definitely applies to weather maps.

While I support the idea behind Vorbis, it's pretty much dead as far as I'm concerned. MP3 is transparent for most people at higher bitrates. Back when we used to measure flash device storage in megabytes and most people were on dialup, saving a few hundred kilobytes per file by using Vorbis at a lower bitrate was important. Now that flash storage is measured in gigabytes and broadband is widely available, most people just don't care about saving that now relatively minuscule amount of disk space. IMO, the window of opportunity for Vorbis to become a "mainstream" codec has come and gone, at least as long as CD audio is the "standard" audio format.

The fact that Vorbis is Free and MP3 is patent-encumbered is a non-issue for most people. They download an MP3, double click on it, and it plays, that's all they care about.

Check out Puttycyg:
http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/

Or Poderosa:
http://en.poderosa.org/

Both allow you to open a Cygwin terminal session without the need to have a local SSH server running.

I've had a Linux box slow to a crawl for the same reason, so definitely good advice if you're experiencing random slowness regardless of what OS you're running. When I ran top I could see the "iowait" percentage was near 100% frequently and also saw many drive-related error messages in the system log.

You've never heard of th Abobe Abrocat?