Ok, It’s currently 2:30 am in the morning, on Christmas Eve as I write this post.

Why am I up at such a stupid time in the morning? Not really sure. might be the Christmas buzz, but more likely that I can’t sleep due to fatigue .. Sound’s stupid, but it’s not.

Anyway, as I have the time, I thought I would digress from the security side of Mac os X for a while and talk about the iPhone.

Mobility.
For any professional, mobile communications are an absolute must. Not only for the those of us who are often on the road, but also for those of us who are “too busy” to be in any place at any point in time. Enter the PDA, Blackberry, iPhone or what ever other mobile device you use. In my case, the iPhone.

Being an Apple fan, the iPhone was added to my arsenal of very cool “tools” that I wouldn’t be without – for two main reasons. Flexibility and portability. On the portability side, it’s not only a mobile device, it’s my calendar, web browser, phone book, mobile (cell) phone, iPod and more – all rolled into one small, pocket sized device.

It’s actually more than that. For example:

VoIP .
I use an Engin service for some of (most of) my land line phone calls. As I run X-Lite from my Mac desktop through any broadband connection that I happen to be connected to at the time, this is not only convenient, it’s also very cost effective.

But, on those days when I am not near my laptop, what do I do? Pick up my iPhone and call as needed. Calling over my iPhone using my carrier (in this case Vodafone) is straight forward, but what about when people are calling me on my Engin number? 

Rather than have to redirect the call to either another number or voice mail, I can now take the call on my iPhone using Fring.

Fring is really cool. It’s a little app that sits between my iPhone and the rest of the world and allows me to “hook into” a number of different applications directly from (almost) any mobile device. This picture says it all.

The best part about using a service like this – I can connect to all of my other services (VoIP, Google Talk, Skype, MSN, etc) through one application on my iPhone. Always connected even when I am on the move.

Now, all I really need to do is learn how to turn my iPhone off! …. 

Warm regards,
Scott Malpass
Aquafruit Media