While I was looking at MobileMe today to check some files, I first was greeted with a message telling me the service was down.  I then refreshed and noticed the addition of a button on the side that says "Find My iPhone".  I then clicked the button on the sidebar and it gave me a few options, find my iphone, wipe my iphone, or send a sound or message to the iphone.  I have the 3.0 GM installed through a developer account and so I promptly clicked find my iPhone as I was interested in how well this would work.  After about 20 seconds I was greeted with a message that told me I needed to enable the setting on the iPhone.  After some searching I found the option under mail setting and the MobileMe account.  This is in an obscure place and hopefully will change in the future.  See the photo below:

  After turning on the option I then tried the find my iPhone button again and after 30 seconds it pinpointed the iPhone to my house as shown below.  I live in a fairly obscure area so the photo is not the greatest, but does provide location.

  Now that we have the general location of the iPhone we can send a message or sound to the iPhone.  As the message says "you can play a sound even in silent mode".  I flipped the vibrate switch to on, putting it in silent mode and then sent the sound to the iPhone.  After just 3 seconds I received the message I typed for the iPhone to display.  The iPhone also played the "Sonar" ringtone which was not what I had selected as my ringtone.  

Here is what the iPhone displayed just 3 seconds later:

  After I turned off the message on the iPhone and was pleased at the results, my inbox had received a message showing the event that had taken place.

  It looks like Apple has sorted out all the MobileMe issues of the past and this iPhone location service works as promised.  The real test will be when thousands upon thousands use the service at once on a regular basis.  Only then will we know if the servers have the capacity to handle the traffic and pass-off to AT&T. So far I am thoroughly impressed with the ease of use and response time.

The remote wipe feature we can test another time.  I just wiped the iPhone to install the 3.0GM build and just don’t have the time to restore everything again.  Feel free to try it out and let me know though. 

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  Most of you who are even interested know that the Nintendo DSi was released this past Sunday.  iFixit has once again decided to show the insides of the new DS to the world.  Some interesting notes about the chipset are:

      Samsung 1st generation MoviNAND KMAPF0000M: 256 MB NAND Flash and MMC controller. The integrated MMC controller allows the CPU to offload the complex work of directly talking to the flash memory.

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      82DBS08164D-70L: Fujitsu Ltd 128-bit FCRAM (fast-cycle RAM) chip.

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      Nintendo’s custom ARM CPU. Our CPU was manufactured in September of 2008.

To see the full tear down and instructions on doing it yourself go [Here]

We did a 3-part series of Unboxing, Application and final Review.  See all 3 videos below.

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We take a look at the Protective Sleeve for MacBook from Proporta.  The case is of the best quality and refined design.  Proporta once again delivers with a high quality protective solution at a reasonable price.  See the video for all the details and be sure to see the photos of the case below.

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  If you have been looking for an alternative to leather that gives that executive look and feel of the real thing, this is your case.  Proporta has handcrafted this case with Alcantara Synthetic Leather which is used in many very expensive exotic automobiles.  The design and quality of this case is top shelf.  See the video for all the details and see the photo below.

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