Well, my first weekend was enough to convince me I liked this thing. But, as I said in a previous comment, I am in no way enamored with the device Apple sold me — I love what I turned it into.
What Apple sold me I had to use on AT&T (a carrier I would [...]
The following is a copy of what I sent to Apple at the behest of iTunes technical support when I asked why I am expected to pay for ringtones:
Charging extra to turn an ITMS purchase into a ringtone is one thing, preventing users from putting music they already own on their iPhone as a ringtone [...]
After a few false starts before finding the guide I linked to previously, I’m up and running on T-Mobile flawlessly. Everything Just Works, aside from the Visual Voicemail — you just get regular voicemail. Fine by me, since i use Grand Central, which has its own visual voicemail system.
Given how well this works, [...]
I’m making an attempt at using an iPhone. The combination of the reduced prices and the ability to unlock the phone (so I can continue to use T-Mobile and not the DeathStar) has made me more amenable to giving it a shot. The 4GB version is on clearance for $300, far more palatable [...]
The Steve Jobs Patented Reality Distortion Field must have received some sort of upgrade, because from where I’m sitting, the big sparkly demo of Leopard at the WWDC Keynote was a big steaming pile of mediocrity.
But first, let’s engage the Wayback Machine to last August, at WWDC 2006, where His Steveness unveiled 10 Fantastical Super-glorious [...]
I pretty heavily rely on Google for a lot of things. I half-heartedly use them for e-mail, in that I use my gmail account or some throwaway things (their spam blocking is quite good, actually). I use Google Browser Sync to keep my bookmarks synced across all my Firefox installs. I [...]
Yesterday, I upgraded to iTunes 7.2 across all my Macs to take advantage of the higher bitrate ITMS songs. Things seemed to go smoothly, until I tried to sync with my iPod and got hit by this bug.
I worked past that and moved on. But today, I learned another gotcha. I use [...]
VirtueDesktops is no longer being developed.
The developer’s moving on to other things since with Leopard, Spaces will solve most people’s issues.
I’m a little sad about this. I see this pattern of events:
Apple releases software.
Someone notices a glaring omission and starts to write a solution
Apple sees this (I assume) and decides to incorporate it into [...]
I sat in the keynote. Well, that’s a lie — I stood in the keynote because I was not fanatical enough to stand in line for more than a half hour. I watched the normal procession of events — Steve Jobs showing increasing sales, growing market share, previewing some new ads (including a [...]
