Voice Memos
Man, it must have been a bummer to be one of the 73,000 programmers who had written audio-recording programs for the App Store—and then watched as Apple built one right into the iPhone 3.0 software.
But anyway, here it is, ideal for recording lectures, musical performances, notes to self, and cute child utterances.
And the best part? When you sync your iPhone, all of your voice recordings get copied back to the Mac or PC automatically. You'll find them in iTunes, in a folder called Voice Memos.
Start by doing a "testing, testing" check, and make sure the VU meter's needle is moving. (If it's not, maybe the iPhone thinks you're recording from the wrong source—a Bluetooth headset, for example.)
Tap the red Record button to start recording. You can pause at any time by pressing
the same button (which now bears a pause symbol 
). Stop recording by tapping the Stop button (
) on the right.
To review your recordings, tap what used to be the Stop button, which now looks like a
list (
). This ...
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