As suggested yesterday, this morning (4 AM) I brought our iPhone up plugged into a generic Toshiba P35 running XP-Home. It saw the iPhone, installed driver(s), and after Windoz had done its thing, I could “see” the iPhone in MyComputer and access it. Photos were visible using several photo viewing programs such as Infraview. I unplugged the iPhone, and plugged it into our iMac running Parallels; it did not “see” the iPhone. QED. Something is amiss between Parallels and iPhone 2.0. Be interesting to see if others “discover” this. Meanwhile, I purchased ($19.95) software from www.tangee.com that goes around the problem and supports manipulation of photos from our iPhone while running Parallels. A screen capture of tangee in use is at the bottom. Works for me. On to other challenges.

Yesterday afternoon I was out @ Purdue Research Park attending a board meeting, and checked out our iPhone 2.0 running only on the Edge network. A little “E” comes up by the signal bar icon to let you know which network you are on - ours will always be “E” . ALL of the apps worked as advertised, with one exception. When I brought up Car Care it crashed the iPhone - this is the second time this has happened. After a reboot, Car Care has not had any problems. I would have to say Pandora, running with just two bars, is awesome. Mobile Flickr took awhile to upload a 85K picture, but it worked.

This morning when I synch’d, four more apps were installed that I selected yesterday - Facebook, If Found, Twitterific, and WeightTrack. My impression so far is the iPhone 2.0 update has a uber cool factor, indeed lots of useful “free” apps are available, but it has warts - Parallels has big warts, and crashing never happened before. One thing I’m certain of, Macheads will be all over both the new iPhone, and the original with the 2.0 update extolling its many virtues. My initial reaction to many of the apps is “I can use that.” On to other challenges. Hank