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A service contract can save you serious cash on a new cell phone. CNET shows you the handsets that carriers are offering for free.

Over the past few months, there has been frequent buzz around the native maps application on the iPhone. First it was with Google introducing advanced navigation features on the Android which is yet to be made available on the iPhone. Then later, we also heard that Apple had acquired a…

Early last month, we had written about the new 2.0 version of the popular Twitter client for iPhone, Tweetie. Back then in our review, we had written about the loads of new features that Tweetie 2.0 had in comparison with the original version that made the cost price of $2.99…

When sending an SMS message to a contact that has a 7-digit phone number stored, you may receive the following SMS message from a wireless carrier generated number:
"Error Invalid Number. Please re-send using a valid 10-digit mobile number or valid short code."
The intended recipient of the SMS text message will not receive the message that was attempted.

Copyright © 2009 Thomas. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-software/quick-vid-look-at-musicinfo-displays-song-info-right-over-the-iphone-status-bar/ .

Here’s another little jailbreak toy I’ve been playing with over the past few days: it shows your music’s artist/album/title info right along the status bar every time a tune plays. I haven’t seen any adverse effects on battery life, but I haven’t been playing with it for that long. I do wish it was a bit more customizable and supported landscape, but this is one of those cool features I definitely wish Apple would adopt in a future firmware update.

MusicInfo is free on Cydia or Rock.

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So last week the New York Times Magazine published a piece called “Against Camel Case” which argues that intercapped product names like iPhone and TiVo are “medieval,” because they harken back to a time in which people mostly read aloud, slowly sounding out each word as they tried to understand them. Proper word spacing, says the Times, “eventually made possible phenomena like irony, pornography and freedom of conscience.”

That’s sort of a crazy coincidence — while we’re not so sure word spacing and porn have anything to do with each other, we did just re-do our style guide when we launched our jazzy new redesign, and we actually thought long and hard about how to handle intercapped, all-capped, and otherwise non-standard product names. This is something we deal with a hundred times a day, and we simply weren’t going to let Motorola tell us to write MILESTONE over and over again, completely contradicting our own sense of style and taste — as the Times says, “Writers of the world, fight back!” Well, we can’t say no to that, so we thought we’d share our four newly-minted rules for writing out non-standard product names:

1. Product and company names that are regular English words shall be treated like proper English nouns, complete with proper capitalization. Example: DROID becomes Droid and nook becomes Nook.
2. Product and company names that are not regular English words shall be capitalized first as proper nouns, and then as the company treats them. Example: RAZR stays RAZR, but chumby would become Chumby.
3. Intercapped product and company names should generally be treated as the company treats them, unless it’s egregious and / or looks weird. Example: iPhone stays iPhone, BlackBerry stays BlackBerry and TiVo stays TiVo, but ASUSTek becomes Asustek. This rule is subject to many exceptions based on usage and history, and also functions as the “this is stupid” loophole.
4. Acronyms should obviously be in all-caps.

We think these rules are flexible to handle most situations, although there are some edge cases and blatant Rule 3 violations out there. Still, it’s a start — unlike the Times, we’re pretty sure “iPhone” and “MasterCard” are here to stay, but we feel like our rules are a small step towards making our site clearer and more readable. Either that, or we’re just crazy in the head.

Editorial: The Engadget style guide reaches a MILESTONE originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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