Douglas over on appleiphoneschool just got a nice email from AT&T:

We are excited to announce that we will be launching another iPhone Refurb sale!

iPhones are now sold out and are on back-order online. However, your customers will be able to purchase a refurbished iPhone online at AT&T for only $250!

This promotion is valid from Wednesday, May 14th through Friday, May 16th (while supplies last).

Is this AT&T trying to shift their last few EDGE iPhones before the updated 3G version hits? It’ll be interesting to see what kind of take up they get with us being so close to the expected release of the superior iPhone.

Things have been a little quiet on the 3rd party apps scene for a while. Possibly everyone is waiting for the Apps Store so they can charge for their stuff? Either way, today we’ve been given something a little special.

IntelliScreen allows you to select things such as recent emails/SMS, calendar appointments, weather and news right from your ‘Slide to Unlock’ screen ! You tell it what to display, and it’s right there.

Features include:

• View Calendar, Email, Text Messages, News, Sports, and Weather from your iPhone “Slide To Unlock” screen
• Smooth scrolling across each item to quickly glimpse at your data
• Auto-Checks Email when you view the unlock screen - no need to “Refresh” from Mail.app or wait 15 minutes
• Go directly to the application of your choice with a “Swipe”
• Customizing your IntelliScreen is easy! Choose which content you want to view and where

The app is currently only in BETA, so obviously use at your own risk. The source you’ll be wanting to add to Installer is: http://intelliborn.com/repo

Given the BETA status of IntelliScreen, I’m very interested to hear how people get on with it. Please let us know via the comments section !

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I‘m having a bit of a YouTube revival at the moment. It seems everything I’m either researching ready for buying, or just finding information for the site, YouTube is proving of use. Yes it’s also a haven for some complete rubbish, but if you look hard enough there’s some little gems too.

The problem I have however, is remembering where the videos I like actually are. Yes I can bookmark them, but sometimes you want a local version. This is where YouTube Video Downloader comes in. Created by a member of teh iPhoneSDK forums, this little app downloads any youtube video you have the URL for. Give it the URL and it goes off to do its thing. Once downloaded you can then either play it using software that supports FLV files, or convert it for MP4 using something like iSquint. There’s no loss in quality and it’s nice and quick too.

Yes there are other applications that also do the same thing, but I like this one for two reasons. Firstly, it’s free which is always a plus ! Secondly, it’s got such a small footprint, is nice and light, and doesn’t try to do too many things at once. It does exactly what it says on the tin !

YouTube Video Downloader can be downloaded from Josh G’s website. Josh will also be reading this post, so any questions/comments, be sure to use the comments section at the bottom of this post !

Once again, the folks over at infinite loop have come up with some cracking new ads as part of their ‘get a mac’ campaign.

In Pep Rally, PC tries to pep himself up despite the fact that the Mac is the “number one notebook on college campuses.” Just when PC finishes his rant, the cheerleader squad starts cheering for Mac. In Group, PC is in a support group with fellow PCs. “You’ve just taken the biggest step, and that’s accepting that our operating system just isn’t working like it should,” are some words uttered by the PCs. The comedy comes at the end of this one as a PC stands up and says “I am pleased to say that I’ve been error free for over a week” in a constant loop.

You can check out the new ads over on the newly redesigned apple sub-site - viewing ads as far back as 2006! Apple weblink We wait with baited breath to see the UK versions….

During my nightly Twitter wanderings I found an interesting tweet from Guan Yang:

“The iPhone’s SIM hotswap feature is awesome. Why can’t all phones do this?”

When I asked him about this, he said he’d been doing it successfully for some time, with no ill-effects. I had no idea this was possible, and whilst I’ve no use for it personally, I can imagine it could help some people. Obviously ymmv, so please don’t email us saying your iPhone burst into a ball of flames when you tried

No doubt whilst I’ve been hard at work (honest!) you’ve all read about how AT&T’s web site has been listing an ‘iPhone Black’ since at least Sunday. The rumour-mill went into overdrive, and everyone got very excited. But alas, it’s all very innocent, at least according to AT&T via Gizmodo:

An AT&T spokesperson just told us that the iPhone Black dropdown reference on the AT&T Wireless website is just a temporary placeholder. The spokesperson says that it was used over the weekend for a “scheduled catalog update,” distinguishing the various iPhone models (4GB, 8GB and 16GB).

So the 3G iPhone won’t be called the iPhone Black. Good.

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Not long after putting the link on the site, we’ve made a steady clime from 18th, to 9th on appletopsites.com. A big thankyou to everyone who’s clicked on the link. Oh, and keep clicking !