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One last post before I go and do some actual work: AT&T has finally announced the plans for the iPhone 3G , most particularly for the family plans: AT&T has announced its AT&T Nation and AT&T FamilyTalk plans for iPhone 3G. Its AT&T Nation plans, meant for individual users, range in price from $69.99 to $129.99 a month, and include unlimited data, Visual Voicemail, and unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling.…AT&T’s FamilyTalk iPhone plans cover two lines and include unlimited data, Visual Voicemail, unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling, and unlimited nights & weekends… (Via iLounge .) Technorati Tags: Apple , iPhone , repost

Almost a year and a half ago , I listed out a bunch of Mac applications that would be useful for some newly converted friends of mine. This is sorely in need of an update, but until then I’ll just occasionally post what others have to say. Macworld just covered SmartSleep , which can be great for people with laptops: Patrick Stein’s Smart Sleep, a System Preferences panel, lets you choose between four different sleep modes: Sleep and hibernate: Default mode. Sleep only: No RAM written to disk. Hibernate only: Power fully off. Smart sleep: A special mode whereby your machine will generally just sleep, but will sleep and hibernate when the battery is below a certain power level you specify via a slider. If the battery is below five percent charge, then it will only hibernate. After Apple made hibernation the default mode when closing a laptop, people are supposed to wait (up to a minute!) for it to finally go to sleep. This tool can be great for doing what rea...

From Ars Technica ’s wonderful Infinite Loop , we have “ Macworld 2008 keynote now available as podcast ”: In addition to the stream , Apple has now also posted the video of Steve Job’s keynote as a podcast , ready to be synced to your iPod, iPhone or AppleTV. (Link opens in iTunes.) I’m reposting it here, because I couldn’t find a link to it on the iTunes store yet. Technorati Tags: repost , Apple , Macworld , keynote