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Trailers.optimalconnection.net provides an easy interface to browse movies from Apple's movie trailer site formatted for the iPhone.

Movies are split into Just Added, Exclusive, Most Popular, Genre and Movie Studio categories in an iPhone-friendly interface.

I know enough Spanish to get by: What time is it, I need help, wheres the Apple Store? You know, the basics.

I've picked up parts of the language in Spanish class in High School and around Texas, but my friend, Laura, taught the Spanish I use most often: How to curse at people in traffic, how to pick up men, and a song about a cow.

From time to time, Ill send a text message in Spanish. In the past, I've avoided it because I had to turn off T9 on my old phone to even think about writing in Spanish. But that was a cruddy $50 phone How would the iPhone stack up?Allow me to fire up Notes. Ill type my little Spanish cow song. Its the best! :)

Just trudging though came up with this:

With the iPhone I usually just power through (audio) and let the iPhone make the text make sense. Sometimes it confuses my friends, but they do the same thing back at me!

By comparison, the actual words to the song are:

Yo tengo una vaca lechera,
no es una vaca cualquiera,
me da leche merengada,
ay! que vaca tan salada,
toln , toln, toln , toln.

(Video of Katie's rendition)

Since English is the default language, I thought maybe changing it to Spanish would help when I typed my song. After running through all the settings, I couldn't find a way to change it! Dios Mio!

Since the iPhone uses its built in dictionary to power the auto-correction on the touch keyboard, if the word you are typing isn't recognized, it will happily correct it to one that it thinks is right. Even if it isn't what you wanted. (Someone write an app to read my mind, please. :)

I guess Ill just have to stick to English for now, s?

Per Mashable, how to make your $600 iPhone even more useful? Say goodbye to "My Name Is" stickers forever...

Visit iPhone Name Tag and make your own.

1. Enter Name
2. Press Submit
3. Turn iPhone Sideways
4. Hang from Neck

eWeek Microsoft-Watch blogger relates his two week experience with the iPhone.

Before reading any further, Microsofties and their partners should take out paper and a pen. Apple has done so much right with the iPhonebased on my experience, anyway that they should take notes.

Joe Wilcox replaced his Nokia N95 with the iPhone in a last minute decision which he doesn't regret. He breaks down what he sees the major benefit of the iPhone: Synchronization, Mobile Web, Mobile E-Mail, Battery Life, and that it's simply a joy to use.

Wilcox writes "I never really liked my cell phone before now. But I lovemy iPhone. It's a real joy to use; using the features makes me laugh. All technology products should be this useful and fun."

A Blog entry claims that if you complain about EDGE service, AT&T will let you cancel the "required" $20 data plan on the iPhone.

Under this cheaper plan you still get 450 anytime minutes, 5000 night/weekend minutes, free mobile-to-mobile, rollover minutes, you can still use the internet features over WiFi and you dont have to pay an extra $20 a month for the privilege of enduring worse than dial-up speeds over AT&Ts Edge service.

Your mileage may vary, but there had been rumors prior to the iPhone launch that the data plan could be canceled after the fact.

Something the iPhone is missing is internet music streaming. A web application called SeeqPod addresses lets you listen to music files publicly available on the internet. Point your iPhone to SeeqPod.com/iPhone and start clickin'.

You can either browse by artist or "search and discover" on the home page. Browsing has a really pretty, iPhone-esque inferface.

When you find a song you like, click on it, and it'll load as an mp3 and play in-browser:

The discover function is really neat. You type in an artist and it'll bring up ones that are similar to who you typed in. A search for Franz Ferdinand brought up Joss Stone, The Killers, and Coldplay, for example.

A few problems: browsing can be a little wonky. Since the music is just indexed from the web, some of the songs aren't named, just file names like "Audio Track 06" by Elton John is actually a live version of Rocketman. Going between tracks and artists can be a little slow, but it's understandable as it's loading webpages as you do it. Another problem is the inability to download the song to the phone, but if it were possible, I'm sure you'd run into a billion copyright issues.

I tried this over the Wifi at my house and over EDGE. Wifi was fine and fast, just as expected, but over EDGE, that was a different story. The MP3 files take a good long time to download, so I wouldn't really recommend using this site via EDGE unless you're horribly, terribly, impossibly bored. It's a little bit faster than dial-up. Frustrating, but doable, but "rather not"-able.

SeeqPod is definitely going in my "Apps" bookmark folder in mobile Safari. Seems like it'd be a neat way for your friends to recommend new musicgo to the URL, click "share" and email away.

Today was going to be about how to make a super-cute homemade iPhone case. I got cute fabric, some cute buttons for a closure all so freakin' adorable, but...

I make a pattern, I sew it together and:

Fits worse than that rootin' tootin' Speck case, which I finally returned yesterday -- so scratch that plan.

Returning the Speck cases was a simple operation. I took the reboxed cases and my receipt to a clerk holding a little hand scanner. He wasn't surprised at all that I was returning them. A cute thing happened on the way to the Apple Store, though. Dove was handing out free samples of chocolate. Dove chocolates have little sayings written on the inside of the aluminum wrapper. I opened it and popped it in my mouth as I walked to the Apple Store. The wrapper said:

So, the first practical (sorta) application from the iPhone hacking efforts appears on HacktheiPhone -- but its not for the faint of heart.

The 23 step tutorial requires an involved process which is not without risk:

Following these instructions may brick (kill) your iPhone making it completely unusable. If your iPhone becomes unresponsive to restoration via iTunes, then you may have to seek repair or replacement through Apple Inc., or AT&T. However, everyone we know of has been able to restore their iPhone fully by using iTunes. Pay careful attention to the instructions here. We are NOT responsible for your results. You are assuming all risks. These instructions were completed successfully by many people before being posted here, but we cannot account for everyone's individual computer system configurations or ability to follow directions.

As it turns out, a few MacRumors forum members have successfully installed ringtones with this procedure.

Michael Johnson released Corridor, dubbed "the first 3D game for the iPhone".

Beyond that, Johnson's game also supports the iPhone's accelerometer as the controller for the game.

The instructions are a bit hard to follow without seeing the game, but makes sense when you start playing.

1. If you see protrusions on the left and right, hold the iPhone in portrait mode.
2. If you see protrusions on the top and bottom, hold the iPhone in landscape mode.
3. Do NOT change the orientation of the iPhone while you are in a section with protrusions. This will cause you to crash.

MacOSXHints publishes a tip about using iPhone's Google Maps to find Wifi spots in your area.

So, let's say that I'm in a neighborhood that I'm not familiar with. I ask somebody nearby what the local zip code is (let's say, 92116), and then I go to the Maps widget on my iPhone. I type in wifi 92116 and then hit Search. Up will pop up a whole array of (usually) free wireless networks -- coffee shops, libraries, book stores.

We previously posted a link to Jiwire which provides a similar service, and allows filtering by "Free" Wifi hotpots. Google's method appears to show both free and paid hotspots.