It seems as soon as the new iPhone got released, Blake Lively abandoned her iPhone for a brand new black iPhone 3G.
Another photo after the jump!
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The back up process can be a pain for iPhone users who have a lot of applications installed on their device.

If you’re impatient (or bored of the backup process) to synchronize only your iPhone and try to cancel the backup, the iPhone won’t sync, since it makes the backup before it synchronizes your datas. Worst, according to a blogger:

The other problem is that if you ever cancel a backup (by clicking the ‘x’ next to the progress bar), it apparently corrupts the existing backup — so if you do then go to restore your iPhone, the backup won’t be usable.

The solution is a command line to type from the Terminal; it will prevent your iPhone from backing up the datas and directly sync.
Prior to do this be sure iTunes is closed.
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I’ve already mentioned MxTube’s as one of the most useful applications for iPhone 1.1.4.

Now the application is available for jailbroken iPhone 2.0 users via Cydia.

It still has the same great functions ( main is downloading youtube videos) , is super stable and it’s still free.

A new Beta of AOL Radio 2.0 requiring at least Mac OS 10.5.2 is available.
It’s still the same good app referencing radios by genres, but it also has some new features like showing the cover of the current song instead of its icon in the dock and still the Growl-like notifications when changing the station.

You can download AOL Radio 2.0b1 here

AOL Radio is also available as a free App for iPhone/iPod Touch.
You can get it from the iTunes Music Store or directly from the iPhone’s AppStore.
This version is really slick and is the Apple Design Winner in 2008’s iPhone Developer Showcase.

These advises apply to iPhone users, especially iPhone 3G users (since the battery life is weaker for the 2nd iPhone).

1. First thing to do of course, is to turn off “bluetooth”. Apple didn’t make of it a very interesting feature after all since you can’t send/receive anything from a computer or other device. No regrets then.
2. Second thing to do is to turn off the auto-brightness and be sure you didn’t set the brightness to the max (a bit more than 50% is ok).
3. Turn off push and sync your iPhone from iTunes like you used to before.
   If you really want to keep “push” for emails, you can at least turn it off for calendars, bookmarks and contacts.
   It’s also better to set “fetch” to manually.
4. Don’t hesitate to restart your iPhone from time to time to give it some “air” to breathe.
5. I remind you, you can also force quit applications from your iPhone just like in a Mac, by pressing and holding the Home button until the crashing application quits.
6. Turn off Wi-Fi when you’re not using it, free hotspots are rare in most of the countries after all.
7. You can also just turn off the phone when you don’t need it (theater, club or else) or just turn on Airplane mode.
8. When you charge your iPhone, be sure you make full cycles, it’s better to charge it when you have 20% and less battery remaining (not before).

I was impatient for the release of this (free) iPhone application; I was wondering when Wordpress would react against its competitor TypePad (who released its application a long time ago).

Wordpress for iPhone is intuitive like almost all the iPhone applications; it supports self-hosted blogs and blogs hosted at Wordpress; it also enables you to manage more than a blog.
Adding a blog doesn’t require a high level of expertise, all the applications asks for is the URL of the blog, the username and the password, a child can do it.
Now, losing your iPhone is more dangerous than it ever has been… Too many sensitive data stored there!

Download Wordpress for iPhone.