i’ve been rocking the macally msleeve for about 2 weeks now, and am still diggin’ it. i wanted a svelte case that would protect my phone from getting scratched up by keys or loose change in my pocket, and wouldn’t make the phone much bigger. the msleeve fits the phone like a shoe, securing it pretty tightly, and leaving the headphone jack and volume buttons available. most of the other options left the screen unprotected, so that you could use it while it was in the case, but that wouldn’t solve my scratchy key/change problem, and i can’t stand those silicon cases because they get pocket lint and just about everything else stuck to them, yuck.

also yesterday, apollo released their v1.0 of their instant messaging software, that now supports aim, icq and msn. the notification system is also the way i’d expect it to be natively and so far it seems really stable, and they completely re-did their interface to make it look mac-like without being too geek-like. i wonder if apple will even bother releasing an ichat now that the third party guys have come so far?