iPhone 3GS launch breaks AT&T sales records

The first day the Apple iPhone 3GS went on sale was the biggest sales day ever for AT&T, according to an internal memo sent to company employees that has since been published in various blogs.

That's right, iPhone Day 2009 beat out the two previous iPhone launch days, as well as surpassed traditionally heavy retail sales days such as Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, and December 26, the day after Christmas.

The new iPhone may not have added a whole bunch of new bells and whistles, but it seems to have certainly been a crowd pleaser. It took Apple and AT&T about two and half months to sell one million phones. The iPhone 3GS hit that milestone in just the first weekend.
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A green idea for the environmentally conscious shutterbug

I'm really glad that all the cameras I have are still functional, but I'm sure there will come the day when one of them refuse to fire the shutter, or worst, have a damaged circuit. When that day comes, I'll refer back to this article.

Photoblog Photojojo has a nice writeup on what you can do with your spoilt cameras, though most of it applies only to film-based shooters. The Web site suggests that you turn these defunct gizmos into a flowerpot and grow plants in them. From lenses to camera bodies, it seems that almost anything can be converted into a unique piece of green art.

In my cupboard I have an old Canon EF 50mm F1.8 lens which has been severely infected by fungus. So perhaps I'll remove the lens and turn it into a flowerpot. Anyone wants to see me grow flowers out of my lens? Put your request below.

BlueAnt S1 streams music from your phone wirelessly

BlueAnt is no stranger to Bluetooth speakerphones. The BlueAnt Supertooth 3 and the Supertooth Light from years past were favorably reviewed, and for good reason. The Supertooth 3 especially impressed us due to its ability to translate text to speech, which meant it could read out incoming caller IDs to us.

The latest BlueAnt S1 is not quite so advanced (it is meant to be a lower-end and more affordable model), but it does add a couple of cool new features the others lacked. The S1 has multipoint technology, which means it can connect up to two devices simultaneously, and it has stereo Bluetooth compatibility, which lets it stream music wirelessly from your phone. It's also a little cheaper at US$79 retail.

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Facebook cleans up its privacy controls

Facebook is gearing up for a major revamp of its privacy settings. The social network's privacy controls had become so sprawling that they were distributed across six separate pages and 40 different settings, according to a conference call the company held on Wednesday.

"These can add up and pile up and not be as clean as one would like," Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly said on the call. Apparently, they'd become so complicated many members just ignored them altogether--something Facebook certainly doesn't want as it encourages its 200-million-plus members to post and share even more content.

As a result, Facebook's new controls will be more streamlined so as to offer easier and simpler controls about how much everything from entire profiles to individual pieces of content are shared. Users will be introduced to this through 'transition tools' that allow them to toggle how open everything on their profile will be--totally public, friends-only, restricted to company or university networks, and more.
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Asus G71 graphics issues

While Dan and Scott got their first reviews posted without incident, I wasn't as lucky with the Asus G71.

Actually, that's not entirely true. You see the review was sailing right along until I started reading complaints about the system's Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M graphics adapter basically dropping frame rates to 1-2fps once the GPU temp hits roughly 81 degrees Celsius. So we did a little more testing and, sure enough, the frame rates dropped and we couldn't get them back up without a restart.
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