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Apple’s new iPhone 3G S launches tomorrow Friday, June 19th.

Preparations for iPhone 3G S launch in Oakbrook, IL
Apple’s retail stores are opening at 7 a.m. in all time zones to accommodate the launch. MacRumors reade…

Many AT&T iPhone customers have been disappointed by the carrier’s lack of support for both Internet tethering and MMS at launch for iPhone OS 3.0. A pair of new reports today highlight a couple of iPhone hacks for enabling tethering and/or MMS with…

An Event Apart announces the latest addition to the stellar speaker line-up for its upcoming event in Boston, taking place June 22-23, 2009. Joshua Porter, interface designer and founder of Massachusetts-based Bokardo Design, will present the session Designing with Psychology in Mind, exploring the web designer’s latest role as “psychologist,” thrust upon the industry by Twitter and its social software brethren.

Jun. 18, 2009 – You’ve operated the wetware of your iPhone, and now it supposedly supports tethering, albeit in some sort of shadowy Platonic realm of ideals, where AT&T has.

MacRumors forum user bndoarn has organized a massive list of hidden 3.0 features. The list is over 96 individual features so far. Some are more significant than others, of course. Here are a few interesting highlights:

- There is no…

With the release of iPhone 3.0, one of the big features anticipated was “Push Notifications”. This system allows applications to send you notices even when they are not the currently running application. A running list of app updates can be scanned…

Fuel Games today announced Vans Sk8: Pool Service 1.1.1, with full compatibility with iPhone and iPod Touch OS 3.0. Vans SK8: Pool Service allows players to step into the shoes of pro riders Bucky Lasek or Omar Hassan, choose their board and wheels, and session an abandoned pool in one of ten unique events. The latest update adds the additional functionality of allowing players to skate to their own playlists, pulling music from their iPods.

The title pretty much says it all, with a tip of the hat to John Gruber‘s tweet on the subject:

If you select a portion of an email before replying, only the selected portion is quoted in the reply.

This is how Mail on the Mac behaves, and is a welcome change in the new iPhone 3.0 OS. This tip is not mentioned in the updated iPhone User Guide, which you can download from Apple’s iPhone Support Page.

When I synced my iPhone after the iPhone 3.0 OS upgrade, I wound up with double contacts and calendar entries. Checking every Mac in the house, as well as MobileMe, though, revealed no duplicate entries. They were only on the iPhone. As I dug into the problem on the iPhone, I discovered that these weren’t actually true duplicates (i.e. the same event is entered twice on the same calendar), but rather I had two distinct groups of calendars and contacts.

In both apps, when I tapped the Groups button, I saw that there were two groups in each app: On my iPhone and MobileMe Account (or something like that, indicating my MobileMe account). I then started digging around in both the MobileMe and iTunes sync settings. As it turned out, I had the phone set to sync via both iTunes and MobileMe. I’ve had it set like this forever, but it seems iPhone 3.0 allows you to have both sync types active at once. When you do, you get a group for each.

Once I figured out what was going on, I…