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Being without an iPhone, I’ve quietly wondered why the iTunes icon was placed on the right side on the home screen instead of the left like everything else. 37signals explains the genius of how the iTunes icon is placed on the iPhone… right above to the “docked” iPod icon. It makes a lot more sense now.

Equally interesting is how Apple seems to group icons by color according to their application’s function on the iPhone.

Today I noticed my Verizon cell phone now has a EV-DO signal in Carbondale, Illinois. I haven’t seen anything online about this yet, including on Verizon’s coverage locator, so it must have happened not too long ago.

It’s about time. I’m sure Carbondale’s 21,000 college students will welcome the ability to watch broadband-speed video clips on their phones, and finally people can actually use the V-CAST service Verizon pitches at their Carbondale store.

Ars Technica explains how the RIAA won the Thomas case. Judging from the article, the evidence was very clear-cut against Thomas and it’s not surprising that she lost given the circumstances.

It’ll be interesting to see how future RIAA trials play out that rely on more contentious interpretation of Copyright law.

If this MacRumors post is to be believed, full Calendar editing will soon be possible on the iPod touch, with Steve himself labeling the lack of editing as “a bug that will be fixed in a future software update.”

I’ve always wanted this feature and sent feedback to Apple about it. The touch would fit my needs well: a device to manage events, play music, and do light browsing over campus Wi-Fi. I think contacts make more sense on an actual phone.

What would happen if feedback at a corporate business meeting was like internet comments? A CollegeHumor video.

I took some time this weekend and made some changes to the site’s theme. I’ve been drafting some posts of a technical nature and realized that the code just doesn’t look right crammed into a 435px wide space… so I made the post view bigger. “Aside” posts (like this one) are now in the same area as all of the other posts. Improvements are all over the place, and will make a few more small changes in the next few days.

Stay tuned for that “technical” post… but for now, I have to write two papers! Yay for school.

Verizon Wireless Chief marketing officer Mike Lanman on the yet-to-be-released LG Voyager: “We think it’ll be the best phone … this year. It will kill the iPhone.” Uh-huh. Personally, as a Verizon Wireless subscriber, I’d sooner drop my service and buy an iPhone before I keep Verizon and use the Voyager instead. (I’m waiting for iPhone revision 2.) [via PCPro]

Deal-a-day site Woot has launched another sub-site: Woot Sellout, which offers deals through Yahoo! Shopping. They’ve been offering stuff for $0.01 for the last few days, which is great if you can stay up until midnight Central time to catch it. (I got three USB mice for $5.03 with shipping.)

Apparently you can’t add calendar events on the iPod touch. This makes little sense, and makes even less sense when the ability to add contacts is left intact! (Not that I would like to see that removed also.)

The response from Apple seems to be “it’s not a PDA.” Apple, I thought the iPod was a media player, not an internet device. Come on.

I headed over to Facebook to check my News Feed; however, due to site maintenance I’m unable to login. I wonder what kind of maintenance would require my account to be “frozen” like this for such a long time? Some messages in my Inbox appeared empty last night, perhaps something went wrong in that department. Anyone else have this problem?

Update: Fallout from a nasty security problem appears to be the cause, and I’m not alone.