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Check out CNET's iPhone App Directory

The iPhone is hardware for Webware. But there are way too many new iPhone "apps" (sites, really) for Webware.com. It'd be overwhelming, especially for those of us who aren't gonna stand in line to get a rev 1 version of this thing (although, frankly, I'm tempted).

So we've launched a new blog, the iPhone Approll. Check it out. Subscribe to the RSS feed. We'll cross-post the most interesting and innovative iPhone sites to Webware, but the Approll is where you'll find the full feed.

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Wow, you'd think Paris Hilton were here

That's a photo of the TV trucks lined up along Fifth Avenue to catch the iPhone waiting line scene. Don't they have anything better to do? On that note, don't we have anything better to do? Guess not.

Verizon COO: 'iWhatever'

What do you do when your main competitor is about to unleash the most hyped gadget ever to the cell phone-toting masses? Give said gadget a mocking nickname in a memo to employees.

The Thursday letter to Verizon Wireless employees from Chief Operating Officer Jack Plating is delicately titled "iWhatever." In it, Plating acknowledges the incessant iPhone hype and assures employees that AT&T can't match Verizon's service, choice of phones and extras, like music.

"A day hasn't gone by over the past two weeks when someone hasn't asked me what our … Read more

Psst, lines are way shorter at AT&T stores

Why be the 250th person standing in line at the Apple store on Fifth Avenue to get an iPhone when you could be the third person in line at the AT&T store on West 95th Street and Broadway in Manhattan? That's exactly what Scott Zegar, 29, asked himself.

"I went to the Apple store at 5:00 a.m. this morning," he said. "And there were like 500 people already in line (A more accurate count from our intrepid reporter, Caroline McCarthy, is more like 250 people.) So I came back uptown, slept for … Read more

The love of a good woman.

Last night Mrs. Macalope made the horned one a happy polymorph. Over glasses of red wine, with the lights low, she whispered those words that every man (man/beast, whatever) longs to hear.

"You can buy an iPhone."

You should be so lucky, boys.

The iWait is over, the iPhone is here...or is it?

After months of breathless anticipation, it's finally here. Today marks the launch of Apple's vaunted new iPhone, the trifecta of mobile technology: a cell phone, iPod, and Internet communications device all in one. By now, some of you can probably recite the iPhone specs by heart, including the fact that you'll need an iTunes account to activate and sync your iPhone. However, if you're looking to get your hands on one of these beauties, you'll have to sign up for a two-year contract, shell out $499 for the 4GB version ($599 for the 8GB version), … Read more

Snapshots from the NYC iPhone line: Sellouts and power hounds

With under six hours to go, some people in line for the iPhone in New York are seeing if they could make a few bucks off the product hype by selling their places in line. As far as I can tell, there have not yet been any takers.

Considering the exorbitant amounts they're asking, you wonder if they're actually serious about it.

iLiner #12 (software consultant Scott Conley), however, has been in it for the long haul. In order to power his MacBook Pro, he brought a portable generator. He's able to tap into the Apple store'… Read more

'Star Wars' PocketModels offer nerdy tabletop fun you can try out for free

It's a slow summer for Star Wars game fans. Star Wars: Force Unleashed is a very long way off, LucasArts hasn't even officially announced its inevitable lightsaber-oriented Wii game, and let's face it, there hasn't been a good X-Wing/TIE Fighter title since the late 90's (hint, hint, LucasArts). Not all is lost, though: a new Star Wars game just came out that lets you play with all the Star Destroyers, Nebulon B Frigates, and even the copious, not-nearly-as-memorable prequel ships as you want. Best of all, you don't need a game console or … Read more

Game company's big mistake? Solve this puzzle, get a free iPhone

The hot topic at the front of NYC's biggest iPhone-waiting location right now: whether or not the early "iLiners" will even have to pay for their phones. As I reported earlier, the game company Imagination Games has a bit of a publicity stunt going in the 5th Avenue Apple Store "iLine." Someone claiming to be a company rep handed out "Tetris Cubes" (think Rubiks cube, but Tetris) to the first dozen or so people in line, along with a press release that said anyone who could solve it would get his or … Read more