Apple Class-Action Suit Filed By California Man Over iPhone Bricking - Wolfe’s Den Blog - InformationWeek
California resident Timothy Smith on Friday filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple, alleging that the iPhone maker violated the state’s antitrust law. The suit was filed on behalf of Smith by Damian Fernandez, the attorney who’s been seeking plaintiffs for a class-action case against Apple over iPhone bricking.

Purpose of appendix believed found - CNN.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut.

That’s the theory from surgeons and immunologists at Duke University Medical School, published online in a scientific journal this week.

For generations the appendix has been dismissed as superfluous. Doctors figured it had no function. Surgeons removed them routinely. People live fine without them.

Compiler - Wired Blogs
At long last, the one-click iPhone Unlock application is available. You can grab the file at ModMyiPhone, the site that’s also taken on the lion’s share of work involved in creating an easy-to-follow tutorial for Mac OS X users.

Tether your iPhone to get online with EDGE - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Who cares whether Apple or AT&T might shut down your account or slam you with an exorbitant data bill - cre.ations.net figured out how to tether your iPhone to get web access with… well, EDGE. It may not be Wi-Fi or even EVDO, but EDGE should be able to save the day in a pinch, but none of us make any guarantees as to how long AT&T will permit this or what this hack could do to your bill. Proceed at your own risk.

How to: Tether your iPhone to your Mac for internet access - Mac Forums
Okay, so looking around I saw that there have been alot of threads about tethering your iphone to your mac… Most without an answer. I am sure that there are alot of people wanting to do this out there, so I created this tutorial for those who don’t have computer science degrees

Microsoft Works To Be Made Free - An Article by Zoomba
If you have to do a lot of writing for your job (and who doesn’t these days?) chances are you spend a good portion of your life staring at Microsoft Office. MS Office is pretty much the gold-standard these days for word processors, though it carries with it a pretty hefty price tag. The cheapest version, Office Home & Student 2007, goes for $150 USD at most retailers, which is no small chunk of change to most households on a budget. As a result, an increasing number of users are looking to free Office alternatives. The current pack leader is OpenOffice, an open source office tools suite that aims to mimic the Microsoft offering and be as cross-compatible as possible. Other options are web-based services such as Google Docs.

Free is a big incentive, and can overcome lacking features and imperfect compatibility with the industry standard. Free is slowly starting to erode Microsoft’s control of the market space. So, to keep competitive and in people’s minds, Microsoft announced that the next version of their little-brother office productivity suite, Microsoft Works, will be free to download and use. The catch? There will be embedded advertisements.

The History of Spam - An Article by Zoomba
The year is 1978, the ARPAnet connects research institutions and government think tanks across the country. These are the early days of the Internet, when things were pure and clean, and unsullied by the garbage we dig through today in our daily use. It was in the spring of that year though that the slow downward spiral began. The first spam email.

Looking back, we can blame the start of spam on one man at once company, Gary Thuerk at the Digital Equipment Corporation in Maynard, Massachusetts. You see, DEC had a new product coming out later that year, and Gary wanted to spread the word to the folks on the West Coast, since DEC was well-known on the East Coast already. But, instead of calling or emailing users individually to talk to them, the idea struck him that he could just send one message to everyone in one pass. Of course, this was a period where you could conceivably have every address on the network listed in a text document, and the file wouldn’t be that big.

The reaction to this first ever mass email advertisement? Overwhelming hostility.

Money Well Spent - The 18 Year Old Mouse - An Article by Zoomba
When dealing with any piece of electronics, or any mechanical doodad that malfunctions, someone will usually pipe up and say “They don’t make ‘em like they used to!” While that’s usually a load of bull as people often remember things better than they were, sometimes you run across a device that proves that statement true. In this case it’s a 1989 Macintosh mouse connected to a still-functioning Maintosh IIci which put in 18 mighty years of service before going off to that big electronics bin in the sky.

18 years, 3 offices, and countless clicks. I don’t know of many devices that could withstand that kind of use.

Do you have any computer hardware still in use that’s coming up on the two decade mark?

How not to survey your customers | Reg Developer
Blog [David Norfolk says: I don’t like most surveys I see – they’re normally from the armed and dangerous wing of the PR industry – but they can be useful, when done properly. So I was interested when Richard Collins (he wrote a piece for Reg Dev on test-driven development here earlier this year) pointed me at this piece from one of his staff – and I thought it was worth sharing with our readers – , Editor]

3Com mounts school Wi-Fi fightback | The Register
3Com has decided to fight the hysteria over WiFi in schools. The company has hooked up with a reseller that specialises in the education market called 802.UK to promote “second-generation wireless” - by which it means enterprise-class managed WLANs - for schools.