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Yup, if you have been to either of the iphone, ipad dev camps before you know the iphone/ipad sweetness that is involved.  So this weekend we have another one called iOS4 dev camp.  Now since we do not have iOS4 on the ipad yet, I'm not sure what that is going to mean, but I do not think it will be a iOS4 ONLY camp.  So grab your xcode and head on down.

And for your reading pleasure, some of the press release...

Ok, well the iphone conference didnt quite go that way, but basically Steve explained that dropped calls and poor reception is a common issue with all cell phones.  He also called this antennagate mostly referring to how over blown this is.

I dont think so.

Speaking from a personal point of view I think antennagate is more about the inial reaction of Apple to the issue and less about the issue itself.  Most of the people I know that have the 4 have not been having any more trouble with dropped calls then us 3 users and a few have said it works better.  Only one person I know could get the single drop to work well enough to actually drop a call. 

This just came across the wires.. I use it so I wanted to share out as fast as I could.

I was going to write a review on Chinon's TV Ipod docking station, with digital TV capabilities, but another writer beat me to it.  (life as a blogger :)  http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/5/iphoneipod-dock-includes-tv . But as I was testing it, I was also looking another product that also does digital TV and also displays images from your computer on the screen. One of the things I thought the Chinon would do is give me a photo slide show of my images.  Nope.  But it does play video which is the whole point.  But the screen is kinda small.  (it IS portable though, so fair enough)  Still, it got me thinking, how can I get my iphone slide show to play on a nice screen?  Well, enter KWorld's TVBox. Its Pretty nice.  I could not get it to work the first time because of a monitor fail, but I connected to another one and boom, working out of the box... well mostly out of the box.  Although the reception was better then the Chinon, it was still hit and miss. I then connected a proper antenna and then we were rock'in.  The win here is you can take full advantage of your widescreen, high-definition monitor, yea I know you have one. It looks REALLY nice. Now add the fact this comes with a remote.  Win.  So, use your second monitor at work (and yes I know you have that too) and you can play your slide show through the TVBox.  Sweet.  Now, as far as working as a digital TV Tuner, its good for the price. <$100 if you look hard enough. I had some issues with the remote (really confusing) and did not get the QAM working (of which I blame myself because I did this quickly) but in general, it did all that was promised.

So between the Chinon ipod docking station, and the KWorld TVBox, you are pretty well set. :)