Category: tech

06/08/09 09:41 - ID#48872

iPhone 3G S

I can't wait to get it, my current phone's battery is starting to die the past month or so, only holds about a day's charge. Didn't want to pay for a new battery in the mean time so I'm glad they're releasing this in June.

I've been using the beta version of the iPhone 3.0 OS for a few months and it rocks, and as always Apple's API's are a joy to use. Since I use it for development I can write off most of the cost of the hardware ;) Now I just have to actually ~~release~~ finish one of the my half finished iPhone apps...

I've heard from a couple people that it's kind of a boring incremental update, but since I have the original version of the iPhone, it's actually a fairly large step up for me. Mostly, due to the 3G network and 4x as much storage. 32gb, yum. Also, the new camera is a huge upgrade, w/ auto-focus and macro. Sick of blurry looking crap photos.

jenks writes at 11:39:57 06/08/09 - Comment #49005: Yeah really. That's about the most retarded reason I've ever heard.

And I'm no computer guy, but- even if they DID have to go manually change a feature on every account, would that really take 2 months? Can't they write some little program that would do it in like 5 min?

And, if they have manually put all iphones on "no MMS" accounts- I wish they would bounce them back to the senders or something.

I mean I can handle not sending MMS myself, for now. But I hate that people send them to me, and they get no error or anything, but I have no clue they've send it, and then they're annoyed that I don't respond. At least bounce back "unable to send, this user cannot receive MMS" or something.

Grr.

And while I'm griping about ATT- do you guys drop calls like ALL THE TIME? For a company whose ad campaign makes such a big deal about 'fewest dropped calls'- I had NEVER dropped a call before switching to ATT. Now it happens OFTEN. Now, I don't know if that's ATT or the iPhone, but I have my hunches.

jim writes at 10:17:39 06/08/09 - Comment #49004: Sorry, $70 for data & tethering - as opposed to just data, which is currently $30 not $60.

jim writes at 10:17:03 06/08/09 - Comment #49003: Supposedly AT&T has manually flagged all iPhone accounts as not capable of receiving MMS messages, and has to manually unflag them all again, hence the delay until late summer.

Seriously. :::link:::

Also in that report, tethering will bring the data cost of the plan to $70 from $60. Yeah right.

AT&T: fuck you and die.

jenks writes at 10:13:54 06/08/09 - Comment #49002: oh yeah and what about push notifications? they mentioned it, but I don't see it listed anywhere on the iphone site.

I was also hoping for a revamped notification manager. Like I only get a popup when I have texts, but not emails? etc.

jenks writes at 10:11:31 06/08/09 - Comment #49001: and still no flash support in mobile safari, too, right?

Not to mention that f**king ATT isn't going to support MMS and tethering right away (see my journal). Blah.

I still want one.

But the 32gb will cost me not 299, but $699, until february when my contract is up. Oy. $400 change?! I can live without video until then. Esp since a lot of what I want (cut and paste, text forwarding, +/-MMS) will be available for free in the software update next week.)

paul writes at 10:02:23 06/08/09 - Comment #49000: Ya that is lame, but this is nice :::link::: I imagine my journal will be much more interesting with an app like that.

jim writes at 09:57:10 06/08/09 - Comment #48999: And still no file upload in mobile Safari.

paul writes at 09:55:09 06/08/09 - Comment #48998: The camera is a huge upgrade in that it does video and auto focus but I am really surprised they kept with 3 megapixels when all the high end phones are going 5+.

I definitely will consider getting one seeing as the price is reasonable. What I don't understand is the 7.2mbps HSPDA. Do we have that here? The whole time it is just the phone hardware holding back the speed?

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Category: tech

03/17/09 02:11 - ID#48087

iPhone 3.0 SDK

The biggest news for me (aside from Copy&Paste) is that the SDK allows virtually unlimited access to hardware. Which means I can get one of these:

And build robots with iphones for brains. hooray!

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Category: tech

01/18/08 09:58 - ID#42943

Setting up new computer...

Somehow in the whole exciting adventure of getting a new computer I somehow lost sight of the fact I'd have to spend all weekend setting it up and tweaking it.

So many things to install...

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Category: tech

09/18/07 09:14 - ID#41184

Finally, Router/NAS/Printer Solution

I ordered an Apple Airport. I am sorely in need of a more reliable network connection, so hopefully this will ease my sorrows. Plus it's Wireless N. A step up.

But, the best part, and why it was worth a little extra money to go this route, is that i can hook up a USB hub to it and attach the printer and my backup hard drives and (most importantly) my photo storage hard drives. I'll reduce clutter on my desk and everything will always be available to (e:James) too.

I've only got a few GB's left on my notebook hard drive, so I desperately needed to get a better photo storage plan. Right now they are all on my notebook and one backup drive and one CD per month. Now the recent ones only will be on my notebook, and there will be two external hard drives plus the CD backups. Sweet. And I have my favorite / best photos stored online too, for offsite backup.

I think running out of space is slowing down my laptop. Need to keep some space free for sleep and scratch.