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Normally, it takes 3 steps to type punctuation with the virtual keyboard of the iPhone. First the “.?123″ key, then the punctuation or number key(s), then the space bar will return you to the QWERTY keyboard. Pogue has a great shortcut that reduces the previous to one key stoke or press:

1. Touch the “.?123” key, but don’t lift your finger as the punctuation layout appears.

2. Slide your finger a half inch onto the period or comma key, and release.

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Actually you can slide your finger to any key, not just the near ones.

In response to the question: If the iPhone’s Web browser is so good, why can’t it play video on Web sites I visit?, Mossberg replied:

At launch, the iPhone version of the Safari browser is missing some plug-ins needed for playing common types of Web videos. The most important of these is the plug-in for Adobe’s Flash technology. Apple says it plans to add that plug-in through an early software update, which I am guessing will occur within the next couple of months. However, a separate program included on the iPhone can play a limited selection of videos from YouTube, and the phone can play videos you purchase from Apple’s iTunes store, and certain videos you create yourself. More …

MacScoop reports that the next version of iLife has gone golden master.

The consumer software suite could ship before the release of Leopard which is now slated for October … The development of the new iLife suite was actually finished a few weeks ago and nothing prevents Apple from releasing it during the summer or on early September, sources told MacScoop.

iLife (’07′?) is also reported to run on both X.4 and X.5. More …