Wayne Schulz

Did Santa forget to leave you a snazzy new iPhone 3G under the tree? If so, think about picking up one from AT&T for $100 off the normal prices. You’ll have to pay the same overpriced monthly iPhone tax (aka – cell phone plan) – but you can relax knowing you got the phone $100 cheaper than everyone who rushed in and bought it right away.

The normal one year warranty from date of purchase applies and if you want extra coverage, use Squaretrade for an extended warranty that covers everything but losing the phone (use squaretrade coupon code FIFTYOFF for 50% off non-eBay THIRTY30 for 30% off first $30 in items through 12/31/08).

Link: AT&T iPhone 3G Refurb – $99 for 8GB and $199 for 16GB

As 2008 draws to a close I thought it would be fun to spotlight some of the most popular iPhone applications that I’ve used.

On a daily basis I carry two phones. My main phone is an iPhone 3G which drives almost all of my mobile web browsing. For email I’m currently using the BlackBerry Bold.

Why two? Each excels at their particular tasks. I’ve found that the iPhone is still more of a pro-sumer grade email device whereas the BlackBerry Bold is industrial grade professional email delivery. Unfortunately the applications for the BlackBerry largely suck. For this reason I use the iPhone 3G heavily for mobile web.

This year there were dozens of iPhone applications  I downloaded. Only 6 made my “must check daily list. Which six? [...]

Here’s wishing everyone a Merry Christmas 2008.

I do so love how quickly kids rip through each and every present – barely stopping to admire the gift. Here’s the evidence of my own two doing just this earlier today.

Kids these days just don’t understand how good they have it. Here’s mine at the bus stop on the day before the long Christmas vacation begins. Naturally we had arrived at the bus about 10 minutes early which wouldn’t be so bad except the bus was 5 minutes late and the wind chill that day was below zero.

I just spotted an interesting article from Mike Elgan that lists 10 things that aren’t likely to survive this recession. Each and every one struck me as spot on. See what you think:

1. Free technical support
2. Wi-Fi that you pay for
3. Landline phones
4. Movie rental stores
5. Web 2.0 companies without business plans
6. Most companies in Silicon Valley
7. Palm Inc
8. Yahoo!
9. Half of all retail stores
10. Satellite radio

Read: 10 Things that Won’t Survive the Recession