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Quickoffice MobileFiles Lets iPhone, iDisk Play (And Play Videos!) Together

Up until now, iPhone/iPod Touch users with MobileMe accounts have easy access to their contacts, calendar, gallery and mail -- everything but their iDisk.

Fret no longer.  Quickoffice MobileFiles is a free app that allows an iPhone or iPod Touch to easily access a user’s MobileMe iDisk files.  As an added bonus, it also allows you to stream video to your handset!  Here's how:

1. Put video’s on your iDisk and sync.
2. Download the app to your iPhone.
3. Log on to your account.
4. Play your stuff.

[Get the app from iTunes]

iPhone Production Going Down -- WAAAAY Down?

The House of Jobs is minting less iPhones these days.

According to a report by Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Craig Berger, Apple has cut fourth quarter iPhone production not by the expected sequential drop of 10%, but a possible 40% as compared to Q3.

Right off the bat, there are several valid explanations.  Production cuts don't necessarily mean a corresponding drop in demand.  Apple may have actually overproduced in Q3, and has enough stockpiles that they can throttle back on production a bit.  In fact, Apple shipped 6.9 million iPhones in its September quarter, but that included 2 million iPhones in channel inventory in 30,000 distribution points.

On the other hand, the lousy ecomony isn't helping.  Berger notes that the iPhone cuts are "a negative global demand" signal:

That the firm's iPhone production plans are being revised lower suggests that the global macroecomomic weakness is impacting even high-end consumers, those that are more likely to buy Apple's expensive gadgets, and that no market segment will be spared in this global downturn. This is a negative signal for global demand, in our view.

[Via Silicon Alley Insider]

Have MacBooks Pwned Pwnage Tool?

The risk with building a better mousetrap is that, sooner or later, someone's going to come along with a better mouse.

Early and unconfirmed reports indicate that the new aluminum MacBooks have trouble running the Pwnage tool, to the extent that they don't seem to be able to recognize an iPhone or iPod Touch when it is booted into (jailbreaking-necessary) DFU mode.  Mind you, the app itself runs fine -- and if you have pre-modified firmware on another Mac or Wintel machine, you can 'restore' your handset to its previous jailbroken state.  What no longer works on the metal MacBooks is creation of modified firmware, which is the central purpose of the Pwnage tool.

Opinions differ as to whether a hardware or software change is the culprit, with some fingers pointing at a new implentation of iTunes.  One thing's for sure, though -- the Dev Team now has their work cut out for them.

[Via Gizmodo]