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Nerdy nerds only: Version 1.0 of Chandler officially released: James Fallows of the Atlantic writes about the public release of Chandler. The Chandler Project is the long running open-source personal information management and messaging project from the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF). The project was routinely criticized as a boondoggle, but may have begun to redeem itself with this release. Mitch Kapor (a founder of Lotus) originally founded and funded OSAF, but stepped down from the board in January 2008 and has said he will stop his funding for the project at the end of 2008.

Greasepocket: Bridging the Browser to the Client: Brady Forest at O’Reilly Radar writes about Greasepocket which is a variant of Greasemonkey for the iPhone. This is very interesting as it could bring a new level of features and customizations to iPhone power users. Greasemonkey essentially allows users to make changes to web pages at render time by inserting site-specific JavaScript. The source to the Greasepocket project is not yet available and it is unclear if Apple would ever allow such a program to be officially distributed via the iTunes store or if it would only work on jailbroken phones. Greasemonkey like functionality is available for most modern desktop browsers and would similarly benefit users of smartphone browsers.

How to save on your data plan using MobileMe: Jeremy Gilbert ran a series of experiments with a packet sniffer on his iPhone to determine which configuration settings would result in the smallest amount of data transferred for messaging and synchronization. His interest stems from an upcoming trip to Africa where he is very concerned about data roaming charges. Vendors of smartphone operating systems have a long way to go both in reducing data usage and providing better tools and information to help users monitor and reduce their data usage when roaming.