Niri | Blog

You need a peculiar set of half-formed, skinny fingers to text on an iPhone.
And you need a peculiar set of strangely-formed cranial connections to send and receive 303,398 texts on it in one month.

9,787 texts a day, 407 texts an hour, 6.7 texts a minute -

Basically 7 texts a minute every hour of every day for the full month!

That’s just ridiculous!

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The Fring App

Fring has released the iPhone version of their service today as a free download in the App Store.

Fring allows you to chat and interact with others on a variety of networks including Skype, MSN, GoogleTalk, AIM, Yahoo, Twitter, and ICQ. In addition, Fring offers Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) using the iPhone’s Wi-Fi connection. Features listed include:

• VoIP (Voice) Calls over WiFi
• Instant Messaging
• Integrated dynamic contact list ?with real-time contact availability
• SIP integration
• Multiple Connection types

Fring supports SkypeOut and SIP which allows you to make calls to landline and mobile phones. Some charges may apply depending on the type of call and plan. Fring is available as a free download in the App Store. (App Store)

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Norway consumer body challenges Apple over iTunes.

So a Norwegian consumer agency has decided to go after Apple planning to take it to court over not being able to use iTunes store downloads on music players other than iPods. I don’t think they’ll get very far with this but they’re hoping other countries will follow suit and do the same thing.

To whom it may concern,

I’ve been a loyal fan, customer and follower of Linksys products. Sadly this has now changed. You are losing me as a loyal customer. A customer who has spent good customer dollars on your products and recommended you to everybody. You did this, not me. I gave you guys many chances.

I bought the Linksys WRT-300N router as an upgrade to my aging WRT54G router. All was well once the growing pains and bugs were somewhat sorted out. Then an update to the draft-N spec was released. I slowly learned my new, shiny router would not be upgradeable to the latest draft release. The big brother WRT-350N released shortly after I purchased mine was. The same router (300N) is compatible in Europe (with 2.0), but not in the US.

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