Posts tagged iPhone
The iPad…
Feb 3rd
There’s been a lot of opinions out there recently about the newly announced Apple iPad.
One recent post I saw summed up my thoughts exactly.
The iPad was created for the cool kids. It was created for the mother living next door. It was created for the student going to college. It was designed for the people in the world who couldn’t give a shit if they can program the next great million dollar app or not. It was created to give people a way to be entertained without having to book a chiropractor appointment from having to lug their laptop around on their travels.
It other words it was designed for real people living real lives.
Thanks for rubbing it in Apple!
Jun 17th
Apple has sent me a reminder that the iPhone 3G S is coming!
There’s info out there that depending on when you’re eligible based on your plan and when you purchased. Well, at the local AT&T Store where I live, I was #8 or 9 in line… I don’t have much need for a ton of minutes, so I have the 450 minute plan and 1500 text messages. I do, however, receive a plan discount because of where I work… so we’ll see if I’ll be able to upgrade once AT&T’s systems update.
I’m not planning on getting the iPhone 3G S anyways simply because I got the first iPhone the launch weekend, the iPhone 3G morning of the launch (and slept outside the night before). With the limited benefits I would receive from the 3G S, it’s really not worth the extra money and having to sign a new 2-year contract. Who knows, I might be able to go to another carrier when the next iPhone comes out, get more and pay less.
Update: I was given an iPhone 3GS for my birthday by one of my best friends. It was really surprising, but I still have been enjoying the new features. The speed difference really is noticeable when using apps including launching the camera. So while I didn’t necessarily purchase the 3GS, I still ended up with on
Why I'd Subscribe to Sirius Again
Jun 17th
Well, there’s some info out there that Sirius XM will be releasing an iPhone app this week so we’ll see what happens with that.
While I had been looking forward to an iPhone app that was coming out from the NiceMac team, the app was bounced by Apple. I still stuck around for a while as a subscriber. There had been some other changes and in general dissatisfaction on my end and ended up not renewing.
I was starting to think about renewing with the updated efforts over at NiceMac and the StarPlayr project. With their work and the iPhone app news, I was minutes away from clicking the submit button on my order when I saw a news item in my RSS feed about yet another rate hike from Sirius XM.
I’m stuck in a holding pattern with you Sirius… I’m glad I haven’t received any more calls begging me to come back (and they stopped after requesting to be placed on the do not call list only once… not many places honor that as quickly!) but you’re making it so hard for me to come back. I do have to say though, that if it wasn’t for StarPlayr, I probably wouldn’t even be thinking about it.
iPhone music… live.
Mar 7th
One of the first apps ever demoed for the iTunes App Store was music synth. The Mentalists have taken the apps to a new level by performing a live cover of Kids by MGMT. Pretty neat stuff.
Yo-Yo Ma has a first gen iPhone?
Jan 24th
TUAW posted a picture of Yo-Yo Ma snapping a picture of the inauguration on his first gen iPhone. Make sure to check out the scope of the picture at the bottom of the article. Very cool stuff.
Keep the Blackberry? What about the iPhone?
Jan 23rd
So, we’ve all heard or read by now about President Obama’s personal victory of keeping his Blackberry Crackberry. Another story that has been making the news is about how the staff is shocked and dismayed about the lack of Macs and laptops in the White House.
My question: where’s the iPhone, Mr. President?
iWork – Quick Recap
Jan 12th
So I did end up getting my iWork the other day and am really pleased with it so far. I use iWork almost exclusively (rather than MS Office). In my previous post, I said I mainly use Pages and Keynote. I rarely use Numbers or Excel for that matter. The only time I really use Excel is when I have to submit an RMA request for a vendor.
I use Pages so intensively that I’ve even turned to Pages for creative documents rather than using Adobe’s Indesign or Illustrator. I even created a newspaper ad that is appearing in the Daily Vidette today solely using Pages. I have yet to see it but I can only hope that it turns out well.
Apple has added a few new features that I’ve noticed in my limited use so far of the automatic guides showing how far away you are from other objects. If Pages ‘08 did that, I never saw it.
I also give a number of presentations throughout the year and definitely prefer Keynote over PowerPoint any day. In many ways, Keynote and Pages operate identically which makes using them very familiar and easy.
I even went ahead and downloaded the Keynote Remote (link opens iTunes App store). I’m fairly impressed with the simplicity of it. If you have the Keynote displayed in portrait mode, it also displays the notes that you have for that slide right underneath it in the same theme of the notes feature in the Mail app and on the iPhone. If you have the Keynote displayed in landscape mode on the phone, it shows your current and next slide but does omit the notes unless I just didn’t see how to get to them.
The only downside to the Keynote Remote app is that you have to be on the same network. On the surface, it seems like a pretty easy thing. At work, there is WiFi available pretty much anywhere on campus, however, it’s pretty locked down. With my computer and iPhone on the WiFi, I could not sync them together. Luckily, I was able to create a WiFi network from my laptop, connect the iPhone to it and sync the phone to it then.
In brief, iWork ‘09 is a nice upgrade to my already beloved Pages and Keynote apps. Numbers, we still need to get to know each other.
iPhone/iPod touch Top Paid App – Really? C'mon.
Jan 11th
I really don’t know what it says about people in the US iTunes Store. The top paid app is iFart Mobile (link opens up the app store). Really people? Really? This has to be a joke. I really don’t understand how enough people would pay for this app to keep it at #1.
iTunes Top Paid Apps 1/11/2009