Watching Twitter today was very depressing as most of my friends were standing in line all day waiting for their iPhones. I, myself, am pulled in two directions. The geek side of me wants the latest and greatest of everything right NOW and thus is screaming for me to run down to the nearest Apple store and just charge the thing and pay for it in monthly installments over the next thousand years plus interest and whatever else adds along the way. This is a pretty tempting scenario since I would “have a new iPhone” and that’s what’s most important, right? However, the sensible side of me says that the next version is going to be better, cooler and all that plus with the thousand year payment plan still in effect when that version comes out (I’m guessing 6 months, maybe not though), it would just compound and make things all that much worse. Nevertheless, my inner battle ensues… I have 3 hours till my timezone releases it and I have to decide what I want to do. In the meantime… what do YOU think? Maybe you can help me make up my mind (or confuse me all the more - ha!)

Thanks to a recent post by Paul Stamatiou, I got a quick heads up on a brand new feature of OpenDNS. Shortcuts in OpenDNS are just about the coolest thing since sliced bread in my book. It’s so easy to integrate into your network preferences and makes surfing the net just that much faster and easier. You can set up shortcuts for websites you frequent (For example, typing “ibam” into your browser address bar takes you to this site). They have tutorials for both OS X and OS 9 so you can be flying to sites faster than ever. I did the tutorial in 30 seconds and didn’t even have to reboot like they said at the end. Might be different for you, but for me it was friggin easy. [Continued]

I totally missed this one today while I was in our monthly meeting. To Mac users, this is not the most gigantic news, but it’s pretty cool in my book… About a month ago I was sitting behind Robert Scoble in a Phoenix, AZ social media seminar thing. There was this panel of semi-interesting people educating entrepreneurs about social media and Robert was slated to speak at the end of the presentation. I was starting to fall asleep a bit while one lady took over the conversation for nearly 30 minutes when I noticed Robert, sitting in front of me with his laptop, blogging (unlike me, he had a cell WiFi Card). While wishing the seminar had WiFi (yeah, social media seminar, I know) for my new MacBook Pro to hook into, I chuckled to myself and occupied the rest of my time Twittering from my cell phone about Robert and the craziness of the event. [Continued]

Thirty thousand that is (Page views). Like a true geek, I sat at my laptop hitting my F12 key for about 10 minutes as we went from 29,950 to what you see above. This page view number may not be the biggest accomplishment in Internet history, but for me and for iBAM, it’s been a great day today! I’m gonna go buy myself a cupcake or something and put a candle on it. I’d like to thank everyone who has stopped by. I honestly hope you enjoyed your visit and I hope you come back soon! Here’s to iBAM and the months to come!

Thanks again!

Brent

Apple just released QuickTime 7.1.5 and iTunes 7.1 via Software Update. The QuickTime update addresses security issues and the iTunes Update adds AppleTV support, new full-screen Cover Flow, and better sorting options.

Thanks TUAW! [Continued]