I discovered something really handy today. A number of the icons that Apple uses in the iPhone UI are actually packaged as glyphs within the Apple Symbols font. Here’s how to get to them:

Open an application (works with most apps — I used TextEdit)
Go to Edit -> Special Characters
From the “View” dropdown [...]

Why Are iPhone Users Willing to Pay for Content? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Saul Hansell’s latest post on the Bits blog points to the iPhone as a model in which users are happily willing to pay for content, and asks why this is the case. Personally, I think it has to do with assumptions related [...]

You know what I really like? I mean really? I like iPhone-optimized websites. Often lately, I will find myself browsing a website on my laptop and wish that it could have the simplicity of its iPhone sibling, but with the features that I like best about browsing on the desktop: speed and resolution.
It’s a tricky [...]