I am a big fan of HandBrake and have ripped over 500 DVD’s with it onto external hard drives. Not surprisingly I haven’t used it for a while!! That said, I need to rip a few in the next week or so was interested to read about 0.9.4

“Creation comes out of imperfection.”

As you would expect from someone that owns a Toyota Prius Hybrid I tend to try and protect the environment when I can. I am not a saint, and I am not obsessed by recycling, but there are certain common sense actions that can be taken, and when possible I try and take them.

A while back I wrote about how to recycle your Mac involving www.buymytronics.com.

I was looking through some stuff the other day and ended up on their site. Wow it has changed a lot, and in a pretty good way!

Sometimes I can only dream about how good the iPhone is! You see living here in Almerimar I really don’t get to use it to its full advantaage:

• I don’t commute to work
• The marina is 5 minutes away and that is where I do 90% of my business and socialising in Spain
• I know pretty much every bar and restaurant owner by name
• I can’t remember the last time I went shopping for anything other than food, or online

Apple on Wednesday released a pair of updates: one for its Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station Firmware and a minor update for Final Cut Pro. Both updates are available from Apple’s Support Downloads site.

Dunkin’ Donuts, the popular fast food chain famous for its coffee and baked goods, has released Dunkin’ Run, a free app for the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s designed to make it easier for Dunkin’ Donuts customers to make group orders — a social application, according to the press release.

No new gadget is immune to growing pains — especially when it’s tied to a manufacturing and distribution campaign on the scale of the iPhone 3G S. Statistically, it’s just not possible to walk away from an opening weekend without a few hiccups when you’re pushing this many units of anything; the best manufacturers can realistically hope for is to keep problems minor, respond to issues quickly, and spin the crap out of anything that comes up.

While the first two beta releases of Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard update signaled a focus on underlying service technologies, a third pre-release made available to developers overnight expands upon those areas to include several forward-facing apps and additional frameworks.

The iPhone Dev Team has released their latest iPhone jailbreak tool – PwnageTool 3.0! This latest version of PwnageTool will allow anyone with an iPhone or iPhone 3G to jailbreak the just-released iPhone OS 3.0 update. It’s important to note that PwnageTool 3.0 will only work on previous-gen hardware running iPhone 3.0 OS – the iPhone 3G S will not work with PwnageTool 3.0.

Two iPhone features introduced in iPhone OS 3.0 are still awaiting activation by AT&T: Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and tethering. Rumors suggesting that AT&T will surcharge its users $55 to activate the tethering capability are wrong, according to AT&T.

A number of iPhone 3G S customers in the U.S. are reporting problems activating their new purchases for use. According to a message displayed during the activation process, it may take up to 48 hours for activations to go through.

Many AT&T iPhone customers have been disappointed by the carrier’s lack of support for both Internet tethering and MMS at launch for iPhone OS 3.0. A pair of new reports today highlight a couple of iPhone hacks for enabling tethering and/or MMS without requiring jailbreaking. Readers should note, however, that such hacks violate the terms of service for many carriers and should therefore proceed at their own risk.

Think I will have a look at this a bit later as current attepts to Tether iPhone haven’t been that great. If you have done this let me know how you got on, maybe leave details of the carrier you are with?