Continuing the now annual tradition we started last year, a group of us enjoyed the early morning air and rain sprinkles to stake out our spot in the iPhone line insanity of last week (granted last year was a bit more intense with much more time in line). Our spots started at 46th in line and that worked out to score us the initial batch of phones we needed to continue our development and testing of iPhone related technologies, especially over 3G.

Web development can be… well… a pain sometimes. Especially if you are creating dynamic web pages with Javascript and CSS. Thankfully there are some tools out there to make your life easier. I’ll delve into a tool specific to Firefox called Firebug in this article.

Firebug is a Firefox plugin that can be installed by searching the Tools->Add-ons interface. After installing the plugin and restarting your browser as instructed, you’ll notice a little green icon (or bug) in the bottom right of your Firefox browser. Simply click on it to bring up Firebug and enable it.

I just had the opportunity to put video conferencing to a real trial by fire in an unexpected setting - a hospital waiting room. The other challenge was making the link using only a cellular broadband card — no ethernet, no wifi.

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The team here has been working diligently on a wide variety of iPhone apps for quite a while.  Having our official development keys, we’re cranking things out using the new OS.  We’ve even been holding internal training events on building iPhone apps. We are building applications to extend some of our clients’ systems as well as stand alone apps that will be available through the Apple store.

As they each get closer to being ready for distribution we’ll be posting more details here.  First up — controlling uber high end surveillance equipment using the iPhone!

Ok, I’ll preface this article mentioning that having and managing more then one computer at a time is a not typical problem for most people.

I’m proud to say that through the hard work of a bunch of folks on our team, Lextech has a new online image. The web site does a much better job communicating our focus on building technology based revenue streams for clients and this blog will let us get lots of content out to the world much quicker.

With 6+ writers for the blog you’ll see all kinds of useful revenue generating ideas and technology tidbits appearing.