It seems like every week you read about someone traveling to other countries and using their iPhones, only to return home to their dismay as they get a fat bill that month from all the data roaming they have accumulated. Here in the US of A iPhone owners enjoy unlimited data from AT&T bundled into their already high monthly plans, but beware. When you go abroad those plans go out the window and you can fall victim to international rates and overages. There are ways to avoid this however, you can simply not bring your iPhone with you (aww no Tetris?!) or you can just not use your iPhone for date and calls when you travel. To disable the cash eating date roaming function it just takes a few extra steps.

SmartScreen is an applictaion for the iPhone and iPod Touch that lets you place informational widgets on your iPhone’s lock screen, and the widgets have a similar look to the ones on Apple’s dashboard.

The SmartScreen iPhone App has been developed by a company called MediaPhone, who will also be releasing an SDK for it so users and developers will be able to program their own widgets, check out the video of it in action after the break.

A number of iPhone Atlas readers, and more numerous in the Apple discussion boards have reported a group of problems - some large, some small - after updating to iPhone OS 3.1. The next two working procedures for resolving some of the problems identified:

* Restart your iPhone by holding the sleep and home buttons until the Apple logo.
* Restore the iPhone: In iTunes, click the Reset button on the Summary tab. Restore the phone to erase contacts, calendars, photos and other data on the phone, but will restore automatically backed up the information as text messages, notes, call history, contact favorites, sound settings, configuration widget, etc. Of course, make sure that a backup of your phone before the restoration.

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Like a magnet attracted nails, Apple IPhone fascinated people after it was born. Especially this year, Apple released the lasted IPhone 3GS and this type finally adds common cell phone features like multimedia messaging, video recording, and voice dialing. It runs faster; its promised battery life is longer; and the multimedia quality continues to shine.

However, this article is not a review of IPhone 3GS, the major messenger is “recommend a good FLV to IPhone 3GS converter and show how to convert FLV to iphone 3GS step by step”. And I absolutely believe that it’s meaningful with present popularization of online-video website like YouTube, My space etc.