Friday, October 5, 2007

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  • Macworld Editors' and Readers' Choice awards voting begins

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    Macworld has announced that they're looking for nominations and votes for their fourth annual Reader's Choice awards-- they're asking interested parties to drop a note over on this forum thread in the categories of Apple Product of the Year, Third Party Hardware and Software of the Year, and Mac Gem of the Year (an under-$50 software out there that deserves more recognition than it usually gets).

    As I suspected, there's no question about Apple Product of the Year: it's definitely the Hi-Fi. Wait, no, I mean it's definitely the iPhone. Duh. And the rest of the votes are literally all over the place, from Parallels, Adobe's suites, and even Leopard (despite not actually being from a third party, but maybe it's just that good) to smaller stuff like Panic's Coda and Gus Mueller's Acorn. I gotta say good luck to Macworld's editors-- they're going to need it to come up with some good award winners from that mess.

    But they've got time-- the awards probably won't drop until mid-December. And by then, we'll all have used Leopard enough to know that it is the software product of the year, third-party or otherwise.
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  • Bungie says Mac games are still a possibility

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    Macworld has a quick chat with Bungie after this morning's big announcement that the company is "evolving" away from Microsoft a bit, and the good news is that a new Mac release from our favorite game developer (before they were bought out by the Evil Empire, that is) is not out of the question.

    Spokeman Brian Jarrard plays pretty loose with the announcement, and says that while Bungie and Microsoft are going to retain their developer and publisher relationship, his company won't "rule out anything going forward." He says the move will let Bungie "[control] our destiny, and that puts us in a position where we could put ourselves back on the [Mac] platform definitively again."

    We can only hope. EA and id games made a big appearance at this years' WWDC, and I think I speak for many, many Mac gamers when I say we'd love to see Bungie announcing a brand new game at Macworld in a few months.
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  • Long-awaited Nike Amp+ remote wristband finally on sale

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    Has it really been nearly a year since the Nike Amp+ wristband remote first appeared on the pages of Men's Health, teasing us with its polyurethane smugness? Sure, back in August the FCCians caught wind of it, but no joy for shoppers... until now. (Nike Store requires Flash, FYI)

    The futuristic wrist remote (vaguely Logan's Run-looking to me, but I am not an industrial designer) shows the time in bright red LEDs which also double as indicators for the iPod controls immediately below. Snazzy!

    If you're using your iPod Nike+ Sport kit for its intended purpose, exercise/running, the Amp+ can also provide immediate voice feedback on distance, calories burned, workout duration, and all that other stuff that runners find somehow motivational.

    If you or someone you care about picks up an Amp+, let us know.
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  • My iPhone's IMEI

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    This morning, my iPhone's IMEI was perfectly fine. My iPhone has never been unlocked. I was able to use my AT&T Pick Your Plan SIM. And as recently as a week or so ago, I wrote about using iASign, which picked up on and used my normal, correct IMEI settings.

    Today, as I liveblogged, I finally applied the 1.1.1 upgrade. This afternoon, when I finally got around to trying to reactivate my phone, which was displaying the "wrong SIM" message, I found that the iPhone update had apparently changed my IMEI to the dreaded 004999010640000. I cannot figure out any other way that the IMEI had changed. When I last used iASign, it showed the correct IMEI. Today, not.

    Basic facts:

    • My iPhone has never been unlocked.
    • When I used iASign the last time, my IMEI was correct and I was able to switch between my two AT&T SIM cards.
    • I did pitch in very peripherally with the unlock effort. However, I used a version of the program that had every baseband access commented out to keep my iPhone pristine.
    • I have two AT&T accounts: one is an iPhone-specific PickYourPlan. The other is a general PayAsYouGo. I have switched between these two SIMs on a regular basis.
    • iASign will not work and will not let me switch SIMs unless it detects a proper IMEI. It no longer does so.

    Update: On Dinopio's advice, I removed my SIM--and the iPhone reports the proper IMEI. He suspects there is something corrupt on my baseband.

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