Fracture: Break your iPhone! You tap the iPhone to “crack” the screen and then you tap again to cause the apps to explode, triggering the rest of the apps to explode in rapid succession. Unfortunately Fracture will not see the light of day as Apple has denied putting it in the App Store "because it uses standard iPhone screen images in a non-standard way, potentially resulting in user confusion".

I hope Visuamobile changes Fracture to allow the user to use any image in their photostream. If they do this, and Apple grants them the privilege to sell the app in the App store, I will buy the app and use snapshots of the iPhone and still have fun.

Had a problem with iTunes today when I ran out of disk space while downloading some new podcasts. To quickly get some space, I deleted a hand full of podcasts to make room for new ones. After I recovered some space elsewhere on the drive, I returned to iTunes to restore a handful of podcasts I didn't really want to delete.

Problem is, once I deleted a podcast, there appeared to be no way to restore it. Using the "refresh" podcast option did not return these items to the list, nor are there any options in the menus to restore the deleted podcasts.

After poking around the web, I discovered that on a Mac, clicking on the triangle next to the podcast name while holding the "option" key, will return all the deleted episodes to the podcast's list. Not having a Mac, I tried the Ctl, Alt, and shift keys while clicking the triangle.

Eureka! "Shift" clicking the triangle restored the missing podcasts to the list allowing me to download them again. I also discovered "Control" clicking the triangle will open or collapse all podcasts at once.

I can understand why a deleted podcast is removed from the play list as normally once I delete a podcast, I am done with it. However, I would have thought it would have been documented somewhere how to restore these files.

After much hassle, I finally have an iPhone 3G. It's my first "smart phone" and I love it.

My biggest complaint with the iPhone is it's battery life. After setting up the iPhone to sync both my gmail and exchange mail, I was lucky if the battery would last until I got home from work.

Turning off the Wi-Fi helped a lot. Over the weekend I turned off the auto syncing of mail and all of a sudden, the battery seemed to last forever.

Thus far, I have found two "killer apps" that are really making me love the iPhone.

The first is Shazam. Ever heard a song in the background and wonder, what song that is? Well, you don't have to wonder any more. Shazam has the ability to pick out songs in loud places and determine what is playing. It then provides links to iTunes and YouTube for the song.

The second apps is Pandora Radio. You tell Pandora a song you like, then it starts streaming songs similar to it over the iPhone. A few votes up or down on what it selects, then you have a stream full of songs you like. Now I have the ability to stream internet music in my car. Sweet! Best part, it doesn't seem to kill the battery (that fast).