It seems iPhone activations are slowed by number portability, judging by anecdotal evidence. One AppleSwitcher regular faced a day or more of waiting due to the complex phone company mechanics of assigning his current phone number to his new iPhone account.

So far, the “experience” stopped being cool as soon as bfd left the reality distortion field at the Apple Store and had to start dealing with AT&T reality.

Probably the way it’s supposed to work, but after finally waiting until this morning to go back to AT&T to get “pre-approved” so the activation process through iTMS would continue, bfd returns home and tries to activate. 

Any iPhone users care to comment on their experiences with/without porting their numbers to their iPhones?

Of all product releases ever, have you witnessed one like this? One that goes up to 11, to borrow a phrase from Nigel? Ahhh, June 29th is here. iPhone debut discussion here.

• Interview w/ Steve Jobs on iPhone
• Boost in AT&T carrier network speeds?
• Half of all humans in line for iPhone
• Lines are shorter at AT&T stores
• Activate your phone via iTunes, at your leisure
• iPhone good, AT&T coverage bad

My host (Dreamhost) either doesn’t allow me to store drafts/sent mail on the mail server, or I simply can’t find the setting to allow this in their control panel. No worries, I can store drafts locally.

If you see this in Mail.app when composing email, and you use IMAP-style email, here’s the fix.

Preferences -> Accounts -> Mailbox Behaviors -> (uncheck) Store draft messages on the server.

As you can see in the image above this can work for sent mail too.

Obviously this will not store drafts or sent mail on the server. Think carefully about this — if you retrieve email from different Macs/PCs often this may not be the solution for you. This solution works fine for me because I always use the same Mac for email, so if I write a draft it will be stored locally on my hard drive and accessible.

If you’re using a Plesk server for email, see this fix.

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The coolness of this capability of the iPhone is only matched by, when considered, the sheer predictability of this news. Apple just revealed YouTube video will be available on AppleTV, and YouTube is busy re-encoding its catalog in Apple-friendly  H.264 format.

iPhone has a special YouTube player that you can launch right from the home screen. So now you can access and browse YouTube videos wherever you go. And when you find a video you want to send your friends, iPhone can even create an email with the link in it for you. [via apple.com]

“Now users can enjoy YouTube wherever they are — on their iPhone, on their Mac or on a widescreen TV in their living room with Apple TV,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a statement.

[via cbc.ca]