Borderline you can’t touch this hot.

A Google search turns up no recall on the part.

I’m going to locate one of those rare thingys they call “thermometers” and measure its temperature. Stay tuned.

The only iPhone television ad? Anyway, it debuted at the Oscars last night.

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Especially since this study says few will pay even $500.

Consumers aren’t willing to pay what Apple may ask for the iPhone but if the price drops they’ll switch their mobile service to AT&T Inc. in order to get it, according to results of a survey released Thursday.

Online market research firm Compete surveyed 379 people in the U.S., most of whom had heard of the iPhone and have shopped for an iPod, to find out how interested they are in the device to produce the uncommissioned report. The iPhone is a combined music player and cell phone that Apple plans to start selling in the U.S. in June.
More Like $300

Among the 26 percent of respondents who said they’re likely to buy an iPhone, only 1 percent said they’d pay $500 for it. When Apple introduced the iPhone in January, it said it would cost $500 on the low end.

Or will they?

Apple has an uncanny ability to get consumers to pay big bucks for early but excellent technology, like the original iPod. And then there’s this interesting nugget from the aforementioned study:

The iPhone will be available only to subscribers of Cingular Wireless, now part of AT&T. In a blow to the operator’s competitors, 60 percent of those in the survey who said they were likely to buy the phone said they’d switch their mobile operator in order to get it.

People can and do jump through hoops to get the best technology, and the iPhone will be no different. I think $500 and $600 iPhones will sell.

Easy and fun: Download Telegraphics’ small, efficient favicon Photoshop plugin. (Direct Mac CS3 download.) A $5 donation is suggested.

Then unpack it and drop it in Applications -> Adobe Photoshop CS3 -> Plug-Ins -> File Formats.

To use, create any square image, then Save or Save As… ICO (Windows Icon) format as favicon.ico. Place that at your site’s root.

The plugin does everything for you: colors, resizing etc. But your results will vary on how good your source image scales down to 16px by 16px. I recommend starting with a 64px or 128px sqare image.

 From our friends at Creative Techs comes a snappy way to straighten images in Photoshop that’s been around since version 5.5 (!). Enjoy!