I am late to this but I have to say, Shazam is amazing! And free! I’m also really digging PageOnce; love the snapshot views of online accounts. Oh, and Allrecipes.com, if you like easy access to all sorts of meal ideas. And for vicarious enjoyment (for me), Snow Reports so I can see what the snow pack is like in places where there is a snow pack.
I really do heart my iPhone!
Chuck and I have discovered a new thing to do with (small amounts) of our money. Buy third party apps for the iPhone! Having exhausted all of the free offerings we have moved on to low-cost silly stuff. Two current faves:
What is the time it took to sell my first generation on Craigslist (for $300). Which pays for the second coming. Nice!
The second coming (aka the iPhone 3G) arrived today (via direct order from at&t - three days from order to pick up!) and it is as we speak in my hands. I am touching it as we speak. And it is THAT COOL. Say what people will, the iPhone still rocks the free world. And the 3G rocks it better.
Coincidentally, the poodles are back so it’s really all about second comings today.
Hallejujah!
I can post directly from it iphonevmow! Too bad pterovtigebtectvdoesn’tvworl. 
The iPhone 3G has been out since Friday, and we still haven’t been able to even touch one, much less buy one. The at&t stores have been sold out within 15 minutes of opening since the Friday launch, and the wait at the Apple Store is a couple of hours.
I decided to spend the remainder of my tax stimulus check upgrading, but the challenge will clearly be to actually find a store that has them in stock and where I won’t go grey(er) waiting. *sigh* I actually may do alright in this upgrade. If I can sell my iPhone 2G for $200 on craigslist, I’ll pretty much break even.
In the meantime, I’ll have to settle for playing around with the iPhone 2.0 software and third party apps. My fave downloads so far (all free):
The apps all work well, but I have noticed that they drain my iPhone’s battery. Since I have this enforced wait to satisfy my iPhone fix, I am now leaning toward a 16GB in white (you can only get white in the 16GB size). It’s dumb, but the white one will show a lot fewer fingerprints, etc, than the black.
Argh! All of this talk has made me think maybe I will go stand in that three hour long line at the Apple Store after all…
Boy, if you have something you want to sell at a fair price, I can’t recommend [craigslist](http://craigslist.org/) highly enough! My friend Cheryl has been a fan of craigslist forever - she used it a lot in northern California to find people to do work around her house, and even found someone to set up her wireless network! Chuck had been hoarding stuff in the garage, old (dare I say ancient?) electronics mostly, and I finally said something had to be done. It’s not like I put my foot down a lot, but very once in a while things drive me crazy. And all of that stuff talking up space on our shelves was just too much. So Chuck went online, wrote up some ads, posted them to craigslist for free, and in less than one week absolutely everything was sold! Even the stuff that didn’t work and in one case as missing parts!
Fast forward to today, and [my excess iPhone](http://oshea.net/blog/2007/12/a-tale-of-two-iphones.php). I took a picture of the iPhone, and its box, posted the ad with the picture this evening, priced the phone at $300 (I looked at other ads for iPhones and was floored to see people actually asking MORE for used iPhones than the price Apple was selling NEW ones for!!). Less than ten minutes after I made the ad live, the phone was sold!
So now I’m back to one iPhone. And this one has shown no signs of running away or breaking into cars!
UPDATE, 11:25pm: So for reasons known best to craigslist, they pulled my ad after about half an hour. Grrr. And the guy who called and said he was coming never came…or called. *sigh* So Chuck reposted the ad tonight about 11:05 and by 11:15 we had over ten email offers AND a bidding war broke out. Wow! Chuck is off now doing the trade - at the neighborhood 24 hour Walgreen’s as at this time of night he was leery about having strange people coming over to the house. So I still dig craigslist, but apparently they don’t dig me.
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