We love the Suntree! Suntree is a real eye for each desk. It uses sunlight as an eco friendly form of energy and in this way does not contribute to the chemical pollution of our environment, but will transform sunlight into environmentally friendly energy which you can use to charge your digital product  (smartphone, mp3 player, etc.).

http://lovedproducts.ch/en/geek/17-solar-suntree-solar-charger.html

We love Scentee Balloon! Just download the Scentee application for iPhone or Android, connect the Scentee Balloon to the headphone socket of your smartphone, and configure the App for it to diffuse the perfume of your choice for every Facebook notification (message and Like) or email received.

You can adjust the duration of the diffusion of the perfume, and you can configure which email account and the number of Likes that will generate the diffusion of your rose, strawberry, coffee, lavender or rosemary fragrance!

An original gift idea, to share with a friend* and to stay in touch on a scented note!

http://lovedproducts.ch/en/geek/8-scentee-balloon.html

Another and easier option to develop iPhone apps?

Did you know that you have another option to develop iPhone apps than Obj-C?

If you have previous experience with Adobe Flex, you should give a try to the ELIPS Studio from Openplug, which let you compile your apps for most mobile OS, such as iPhone, Android, Symbian and Windows mobile

I am not, anymore..., a developer, so I am hoping someone could give me some feedback on how performant this dev platform is.

BTW, Alcatel-Lucent has just acquired OpenPlug, so must be worth the investment...

my iPhone on Linux Ubuntu

Finally, a solution to get my iPhone on Ubuntu, libimobiledevice is developping a software library that talks the protocols to support iPhone and this without jailbreaking!

It seems to include most of synchronization, including apps, meaning that I could potentially get ride of iTunes and start using my favorite Rhythmbox player.

Thanks Matt Colyer and libiteam, you made my day... next step being installing, testing and then you will have made my life much easier.

More at: libimobiledevice

and this page will help you connect your Apple iPod and iPhone devices to Ubuntu

iPhone for babies

If you found the iPhone difficult to get started and not intuitive, don't watch this video, it's gonna make you feel very bad bad bad! Even a baby (my son BTW) can use it, watching video and slidding the images' library, so easy!

Total of iPhone users + total of apps + total of downloads = failure???

An interesting post, from Nick Jones a member of the Gartner blog, where he believes that the ROI of iPhone apps is not obvious given huge numbers of apps available and the small market shares (compare to total smartphones market).

I think this is something to keep in mind when launching an iPhone application, but Nick Jones' calculations doesn't count the value of the iPhone brand which brings a value to an iPhone apps launch. He did mentioned the need to be less emotional and more arithmetic in the pros and cons to use the iPhone, but emotions in brands count, count a lot in fact.

So while arithmetics are important, don’t forget about the marketing aspect of launching an iPhone application. It could generate already way enough return on the buzz talk around the fact that you have an iPhone available, doesn’t really matter if a lot of your customers use it or not… Furthermore, it will let developers (and the marketers too) start to learn distributing their apps on smartphones, even if the technology will change, they can learn the best practices.

Nevertheless, read Nick Jones post, his point of view is worth keeping in mind too before investing in iPhone apps!

http://blogs.gartner.com/nick_jones/2009/04/24/just-say-no-to-the-fatal-iphone-fascination