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Last week, we reported on a discussion in our forums regarding Apple’s apparent downgrade of the SATA hard drive interface to 1.5 Gbps in the latest 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pros when compared to previous-generation MacBook Pros running at 3.0 Gbps. Whil…

iPhoneAppQuotes has already received over 1,000 iphone application development quote requests in just three short months. PhoneAppQuotes is the leading network that connects iPhone App Developers and iPhone development companies with anyone from stay-at-home moms to eye doctors to college students. With the new 3.0 operating system and iPhone 3G S becoming available this month, a whole new market of iPhone apps is opening up.

Since Friday’s release of the iPhone 3G S, there has been a lot of focus on the actual speed gains provided by the newest iPhone model.

Anandtech performed formal benchmarks between the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G S, Palm Pre and Android G1…

Address Book has a supersized text display available for phone numbers (Control-click on the label next to the phone number and choose Large Type from the pop-up menu), but there’s no such option for the Notes field. Here’s one way to work around that limitation.

Edit a contact and click the plus sign next to an existing phone number to create a new phone number field on the card. Instead of entering a phone number, though, enter the text of your note. Keep it short, as the more text you enter, the smaller it will be when shown in Large Type mode (OS X won’t add line breaks to your text; it just shrinks it to fit on one line in Large Type mode).

Of course, you can then change the Phone label to something like Memo by choosing Custom when in Edit mode when you click the mouse button on the phone label itself. I believe this works in all Mac OS X versions. After saving and exiting edit mode, just click the Memo field next to the new entry and choose Large Ty…

I discovered this by accident on my iPod touch. When entering text, hold down one of these keys…

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…to open a submenu allowing you to choose a modified (with accent, umlaut, etc.) version of that character.

[robg adds: This is mentioned in the iPhone User Guide (11MB PDF), but not in detail. There are extra characters on the two symbol keyboards as well -- nearly every symbol is available in at least two forms, but the following keys have additional extra characters in their pop-up definitions: . ? ! ' - $ " % _. If I've missed any, please post!]

I haven’t seen this documented anywhere, so here goes: If you tap the Home button while on the Home screen, the new OS will display the Search screen.

[robg adds: As you can also press the home button once from any screen to get back to the Home screen, you can quickly reach search from any screen by tapping the home button, waiting a small amount of time, then tapping it again.

This feature is documented in the new version of Apple's iPhone User Guide (11MB PDF), but as I know that's not necessarily widely read, I thought I'd go ahead and run this one. I may do similar things with other documented 3.0 features if they haven't been widely discussed. ]

Agile Web Solutions today released 1Password touch Pro 2.1, a new, more powerful version of their award-winning 1Password touch for iPhone and iPod touch. With new capabilities like Quick Copy and Paste, a Safari bookmarklet for logging into websites, and compatibility with iPhone OS 3.0, 1Password touch Pro is the best mobile password and identity manager yet. To celebrate, 1Password touch Pro is on sale for a limited time at 60% off in the App Store.

Rapid Turtle Games is happy to announce Barney In Chocoland, a simple, yet fun pick up and play game for iPhone, iPod touch, Mac and Windows. Barney’s dream has finally come true! He is in Chocoland, and he can get as much chocolates as he can collect. But the inhabitant of Chocoland, Coco, might not like this idea at all! Help Barney to collect as much chocolates as he can, and don’t let Coco to steal any from him.

Veenix Technologies has announced a special summer software bundle for it’s highly acclaimed TypeBook Creator software for Mac OS X. Purchasers of the Studio Version or Corporate Version of TypeBook Creator will receive a free copy of Veenix Font Tools, font management tools featuring a unique fast-font-previewing system.

Apple announced today that the company has sold over 1 million iPhone 3G S models over this past weekend. The press release notably includes a quote from Steve Jobs:

“Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,” said Steve Jobs,…