Sure, it’s pretty easy to pick up and use an iPhone–its simplicity is part of its appeal. But now that you know the basics, it’s time to learn the secrets of iPhone power users. The iSmashPhone blog lists 12 iPhone tricks you might not have known.

Easus’ new DOS Partition Recovery software makes it easier than ever before to repair and recover hard disk partitions when the computer falls to boot. The Partition Recovery Bootable CD ver3.5 is designed to resolve partitions with an error, recover the deleted, lost and corrupt FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, EXT2, EXT3 and SWAP partitions on IDE, ATA, SATA, SCSI and removable hard drives under DOS.

In addition, the software provides useful functions, such as backup partition tables, restoration of partition tables, fixboots, and checks of partition properties and partition errors. Users can configure every parameter of the DOS system’s partition tables. Finally, the software also rebuilds master boot records (MBRs) and edits and copies sectors. An undo function helps guard against unwanted errors.

To power businesses and consumers with mobile Web computing capabilities, IBM announced that it has expanded its relationship with AT&T, Sprint, and other wireless carriers to provide broader email access to their customers who use IBM Lotus Notes and Domino software on their handheld devices. AT&T and Sprint have certified for use by their customers, IBM’s Lotus Notes Traveler software which enables wireless replication of Lotus Notes email, calendaring, and personal information management (PIM) data on select smartphones.

IBM’s Lotus Notes Traveler software can be loaded with all of the set up information pre-configured. This means it is now “wireless replication-ready” as soon as the customer starts using his new device. Standard data usage charges apply. The devices from AT&T that have this capability are the AT&T 8525, AT&T Tilt, Moto Q Global, Palm Treo 750, PantechDuo (Mustang C810), Samsung Blackjack, and Samsung Blackjack II (i617). The devices from Sprint to include it are the Touch by HTC, Mogul by HTC, Samsung ACE, Palm Treo 700wx and Palm Treo 800w.

IBM announced new software and services for mobile devices that more closely mimic desktop features formerly found only on the PC. Designed for both business users and consumers, the new offerings can help individuals make better business decisions faster, while connecting friends, work colleagues and teams beyond what has been available in the PC era. IBM is combining its software, services and research expertise to develop new products and services. The new software includes products with business intelligence, collaboration, social networking and business performance capabilities. In addition, IBM is providing developers with new tools to make existing software applications run on mobile devices. IBM’s software is built on open standards so it can be used with most mobile platforms including Blackberry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, and Symbian.

IBM is announcing new business consulting services to help companies manage a mobile work environment. Called Mobility@Work, the consulting and implementation services can help employers increase productivity by as much as 30 percent and cut real estate costs, the second largest corporate expense after salaries and benefits. Mobility@Work helps increase the flexibility, efficiency, resiliency and employee satisfaction of companies by providing a mobile work environment that allows employees to collaborate across business and geographic boundaries while providing secure access to applications and connections to colleagues.

Memorex announced that its Ultra TravelDrive is now available in a 500GB version. The 500GB version costs US$299.99.

The Ultra TravelDrive is a USB 2.0-based external hard disk drive that sports a blue LED to let you know when it’s plugged in and operating. It’s compatible with both Macs and PCs.

Apple apparently can disable App Store software remotely on your iPhone 3G. The iPhone calls home and poof the application is nuked. Needless to say, this has caused a bit of a blog ruckus.

MacRumors notes that Apple has come under fire for removing App Store software without notification and the ability to simply deauthorize apps already installed on an iPhone is worrisome. iPhone Atlas points out that Jonathan Zdziarski found Apple’s blacklist in a forensic analysis of the iPhone 3G. Is this something to be outraged about? Yes, it’s creepy that iPhone can phone home and deactivate your apps.

Sony has doubled the capacity of its Memory Stick Micro with the launch of its first GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) card. The new M2 card will give customers a choice of over 5,000 fine quality 5 megapixel photos, over 2000 MP3 songs, or over 88 hours of high quality MPEG 4 video.

Heather Wardell recently discovered the joys of using a RSS reader program to consolidate all her favorite blogs, and wondered if she could somehow get the same features on her Palm. Stand Alone, Inc’s Quick News promised, but did it deliver? In terms of base functionality, yes. Its advanced features, though, need more work.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

Amidst confirmed reports that malicious hackers are starting to use fake Flash Player downloads as social engineering lures for malware, Adobe has issued a call-to-arms for users to validate installers before downloading software updates.

The company’s notice comes on the heels of malware attacks on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter that attempt to trick Windows users into installing a Flash Player update that turns out to be a malicious executable.

Nick Saber isn’t happy now. Monday afternoon, after lunch, Nick came back from lunch to find out that he couldn’t get into his Gmail account. Further, he couldn’t get into anything that Google made where his account credentials once worked. When attempting to log in, Nick got a single line message: Sorry, your account has been disabled.

Suddenly, Nick can’t access his Gmail account, can’t open Google Talk, can’t open Picasa where his family pictures are, can’t use his Google Docs, and oh by the way, he paid for additional storage. So, what happens now? What does Nick do? He’s sent a bunch of emails. But now what?