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iphone first thoughts.

Yeah, so I’m behind the curve.  All you other uber-geeks out there have had the iphone since it first came out, waiting in line for the chance to get the “latest and greatest” apple product released to the world.

So, these are my first thoughts… after one day of usage.
1. The battery life isn’t the greatest.  Admittedly, I was using it pretty heavy throughout the day, but if you were truly using this as a “tool” and not just a phone, you would have to charge it at some point during the day.
2. I just tried to add a contact from an incoming call.. not intuitive, you touch the number and it dials.  Fantastic, but what if I want other options, like save to contacts?  Oh, yeah, there’s this little arrow over on the right next to the number, you touch it and then you get the options… did I mention it was little?  I gots paws, not dainty little fingers, I’m not some emo punk that doesn’t eat.. oh, wait, I’m going into a rant..  NEXT
3. So, it’s an apple, it just works right?  Where’s the manuals?  I mean, just working doesn’t exclude the necessity for documentation right?  I think this is a problem with apple (ok, not just apple, most software/hardware).  You have a product and you assume everyone is going to automatically know how to use it?  I don’t think so.  There seems to be lacking the documentation on how to modify the product to suit your needs.  Instead, the depend on the public (read hackers) to create the documentation for them.  It’s my phone, I should be able to modify it how I want.

I’m sure there’s more, but that’s all I’m writing right now.

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gone to the darkside

So, I bought an I-Phone.  I feel so dirty.

But an I-Phone is cool right?

Well, yeah, but do you realize how much I fun I poke at Mac users?  Okay, so I poke a little less fun at them now that OSX is *nix based.  But still, do they have to make it so blasted hard to do anything?  The clock disappears from the bar at the top of the screen, you call tech support and they tell you “Reinstall the OS”.  WTF kind of a solution is that?  That would be like me reformatting the server because a script functioned incorrectly do the end user not being able to read.

Guess that’s just my microsucks upbringing coming to the front again.

I’ll report in later as to what I think.

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so easily amused…

You would think it would be obvious, but in case you haven’t figured it out, I’m a geek.
taken from http://xkcd.com/530/

The cool things you can do with a computer really fascinates me and I am easily amused by them…  Because of the comic above I just spent quite some time playing in the command line in OSX.

And I have to say that the person that writes this is an absolute genius.  I must say that so I can say that sometimes I just don’t get the references… but I DID get the reference from this one

http://xkcd.com/532/

What?  Don’t get it?  I hate it when I have to explain a joke…  Which reminds me, I need to dig through the Calvin and Hobbes Archives to find a particular comic.  Wish me luck!