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If your reasons are tied to insecurities or out of habit, can you leave your phone in your car’s glove box when you go into an event so that you can have access to it if you need it, but that access is just annoying enough that you won’t do it unless there is a reason? Can you ask the person you’re out with to carry your phone for you while you’re together?

One of the ways I've been breaking the habit of technology is by not putting my iPhone on my nightstand. Historically, I relied on my iPhone as my alarm but it also became a crutch for even the slightest hint of not being able to sleep. That often lead to hours of lost sleep due to checking e-mails, tweets, news, apps, etc.

As I also tweeted, I'm considering getting a phone-focused...phone. My iPhone is literally my office in my pocket, making it difficult to go offline in personal situations. Lately, I've tried leaving it at home a couple of times and that definitely has allowed me to be more fully invested in whatever I was doing...at the expense of zero Foursquare check-in's.

Anyone doing iPhone development knows it can be a pain to get screenshots from an iPhone to a computer. There are several alternatives to choose from, including leveraging Organizer from the iPhone SDK, a couple of different iPhone apps, or just screenshots + e-mail from the iPhone itself.

But Tapbots' new Pastebot app plus the Pastebot Sync is a game changer. While the app is useful for anyone with an iPhone, iPhone developers will find these two apps particularly useful and time saving.

Thanks Tapbots!

If you sync seamlessly across devices, people will love you for it. It’s why I love the Apple ecosystem. I add a calendar event to my desktop, iPhone, or web app, and it automagically appears on the others. All of my mail is synced in all of these places so I never have to worry about missing email or knowing whether I replied or having to delete the same messages over again. The amount of time that this saves is invisible, yet invaluable.

This hits on points I made in my Making Web Apps Better piece.

It's also why with all the different Twitter apps out there, Echofon is my preferred client. It syncs where you left off in your Twitter stream. When leaving the desktop, it's possible to pick-up at the same point on the iPhone and vice-versa. Others will implement this soon.

Hi Gmail users...one feature absent unless using a desktop client is
to prevent new mail from coming into an inbox.

We all have tons of important notes, files, etc. in an inbox, so it is
hard to completely close it even when work must absolutely be done and
we need no distractions.

I'd like to see a feature where you could toggle allowing new mail
from arriving. I wrote a blog post about it some time ago --

http://www.technosight.com/making-gmail-really-work-offline/

Hope to see the awesome Gmail Labs team tackle this one soon!

No one seems to want to take me up on building a Gmail Labs feature to implement a similar function to "Work Offline" in Outlook. The point is to stop mail from coming in but still have access to the inbox.

The only way to do this right now is to kill all network connections. Not sure why people don't think this would be useful...do you?

iPod Touch is Apple's unstoppable secret weapon. It's iSmartbomb, flying under the radar. iPod Touch is THE new handheld game device. Don't want to deal with AT&T but want all the fun of the app store? Don't want to give up your Blackberry's keyboard? Are you one of the last remaining 13 year olds whose evil parents won’t give you a cellphone (aka, my stepson)? iPod Touch is the answer and I suspect it may be THE favorite Christmas present this year for kids of all ages.

You can hate Apple because they’re beautiful, but don’t pretend the next iPhone killer is just around the corner, because you don’t just have to kill the iPhone, you have to kill the iPod. And everybody has been trying that since 2001.

The article was titled, "The Top 5 iPhone Dirty Secrets" but I thought this point was particularly true.

App developers have it hard enough on the iPhone; on Android, they've got to keep prices just as low, and sell to a much smaller audience. So how are some of them coping? By packing up and leaving, like Gameloft.

See my treatise on the smartphone market.

Android has an a serious uphill battle to become an "app phone."

But what if there were a new device that costs less than $100 that JUST does cookbooks and other things I need in the kitchen? I would buy one. A Chrome OS is all that’s needed for such a specialized device.

Where else would I use a low-cost computer? How about the bathroom? Just leave it there. Put a bunch of news sources and magazines on it.

My wife often has her MacBook open on the counter while looking at recipes. I see so many people doing that...Chrome OS is going to win in so many similar places.