I sincerely hope you weren’t thinking that you’d see a new iPhone unboxed.

The phone is on my mind as well, but Apple likes to draw out the anticipation and I have no more early access to the phone than you do. So until July 11, we must suffer in common silence, broken by the occasional anguished cry and thrashing on the ground.

Before you hurt yourself, here’s a near-perfect diversion, a Web calendar called 30 Boxes that’s been out for a while but getting good press.

It’s not fully descriptive to call 30 Boxes simply a calendar since it is more than that. You can add events to a calendar that can be shared or not, send reminders to your cell phone, and organize yourself with a to-do list. But like they say in those late night Veg-O-Matic ads, that’s not all.

If you are tired of having your social network pages scattered here and there, 30 Boxes may be what you need. In one spot, it allows you to keep updated on messages or other changes to your Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Twitter, etc. accounts.

You’ll need to link back to your pages if you want to send Facebook pokes, for example, but it’s pretty handy nonetheless to see things pulled together.

Invite your buddies to make 30 Boxes a less lonely place. You can add your buddy’s Web stuff to your space. Privacy controls allow you to keep your information secret, at least as secret as one can be on the Web.

Take a tour and let me know what you think.

Next week: 280Slides.com, a Keynote-like presentation application on the Web. Thanks to MacBreak Weekly for this tip.

Tags: 30 Boxes, social networking, Web calendar

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