iPhone – First impressions? Disappointing…
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Here’s the short list:
1. Bluetooth is ONLY good for connecting a headset. That’s it.
2. There is no file browser on the device at all. Data must be organized (if at all) in the appropriate application.
3. The camera is a simple application that has ONE button: the shutter. Pictures come out okay on the device, but nothing too fancy on a monitor, especially if it was an attempt at a macro shot.
4. SIM card is near impossible to open, if at all. I didn’t look into it extensively.
5. Web browser is slow, even over WLAN. Even the simple OneList web app that was created takes around 20 seconds to load over WLAN. You can not highlight, cut, copy, or paste and text from a website, and you can not save any images you find from a website either. The only nice thing about it is the tabbed browsing, which crashed on me when I went to Engadget and YouTube on two tabs. This is the only application that allows you to use the keyboard in landscape mode.
6. The keyboard’s lame. It gets slightly better after the iPhone “learns” you, as the employees said, but even then, it’s not a device you can use with one hand comfortably, much less without looking.
7. You can only send one picture at a time in an email.
8. No custom ringtones (yet, as we were being told) and the alert tones can not be changed whatsoever.
9. The default ringtones are incredibly lame.
10. The only form of customization outside of a lame default ringtone is the wallpaper, which you’ll only see when you need to unlock the device or when you get a phone call.
11. “Picture pinching” or using two fingers to zoom on any content is certainly fun to play with, but not practical whatsoever. This operation depends solely on using the device with two hands.
12. No document editor or native viewer. You can not store documents on the device to be viewed, they can only be viewed as attachments when they’re sent to your in an email.
13. Visual voicemail is laggy and reacts about the same way as pushing the fast forward and rewind buttons on traditional voicemail systems. The only advantage is for those that get that many voicemail messages a day that they need to sort them according to priority.
14. NO games. None.
15. No voice dialing.
16. No speed dialing (which can be made up by the “quick list”, but getting to that quick list isn’t as fast as holding a single key on a real keypad).
17. No video.
18. No MMS.
19. It’s still <4GB for $500 and <8GB for $600
20. It only takes around 2 hours to explore every menu without any options for expandability except to scrounge around for new web apps that will load slowly and nowhere near as smoothly as the native apps.
This device looks like it was aimed at the general consumer who has the money to spend on such a flashy device, but it leaves so many basic features behind that it’s almost impossible to consider it a success as a mainstream device. It encourages the advanced user to move away from MMS and into email to send images, but leaves out any advanced features advanced users would be accustomed to, and still retains a huge price tag on top of it.
It’s certainly pretty and Americans will buy it because of that simple UI, but anyone who’s familiar with other operating systems would be appalled. This phone needs to be unlocked and cracked WIDE open to make much better use of the multi-touch system. That, or it needs an immediate update in iTunes to rework every feature.
Papercraft – Gizmodo
Papercraft – Gizmodo
Now you can bamboozle everybody in the iPhone line with this new and improved iPhone papercraft model. Just print it on some thick paper, cut it out and discreetly tape it together, and everybody will think you’ve already gotten your iPhone like Mossy and Pogue.
Chore Buster – Organize your family’s chores
Chore Buster – Organize your family’s chores
Organize your household chores
ChoreBuster is an easy and free way to automatically create fair chore lists, or chore schedules.
Enter in people and chores
Specify how hard / undesirable each chore is
ChoreBuster generates a fair schedule of chores
Schedule emailed to you weekly – no need to log in
Often-Asked iPhone Questions
Often-Asked iPhone Questions – New York Times
Really interesting article that sheds some light on what the iPhone can and can not do.
Appeals Court Says Feds Need Warrants to Search E-Mail
A federal appeals court on Monday issued a landmark decision (.pdf) that holds that e-mail has similar constitutional privacy protections as telephone communications, meaning that federal investigators who search and seize emails without obtaining probable cause warrants will now have to do so.
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Pigs for Cubs…
In a zoo in California , a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.
The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother’s cubs, perhaps she would improve.
After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veter inarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only orphans” that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaner pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger
Would they become cubs or pork chops?
Take a look…….. you won’t believe your eyes!
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I Got Quoted on BBC, and Nobody Told Me?!
In their article Flickr to require Yahoo usernames, I, Joe Philipson, was quoted along side Jimmy Wales, creator of Wikipedia, about Yahoo changing the login process on Flickr.
So comment and tell me what you think! Now I’m off to Google my name some more and see what else happened without my knowledge.
Grace for Godly Living
As some of you know I’ve left Hawaii for the summer and have become an intern at Lancaster Baptist Church. I have been giving a list of projects and one of the items is Personal Development. I’m glad that they care about my personal development and that many organizations don’t ever seem to care. I have been given four books to read. One of which was written by my Pastor, and boss, Paul Chappell. The book is called Grace for Godly Living. I am to read and write a report by the end of the month. I’ve only really cracked open the book and have thought about many of the points in the book. The following is an outline of thoughts and a rough idea of what my end report will look like. Feel free to read and comment. Also, the outline doesn’t come out so well on the blog and I don’t feel like making it pretty so just use some imagination. 
- [ ] Part One – discipline by Grace
– [ ] Kill Joys
– [ ] I think that many people feel that fundamental bible
believing churches are ‘kill joy’s because they attend
churches that had strong biblical principles but failed
to develop a personal relationship with the people. Also,
possibly, a Chrisitan who has often been judgmental
towards the actions of an unsaved person but never has
taken the time to talk or get to know the unsaved person.
– [ ] Holy living and grace go hand in hand.
– [ ] Grace without Holy living is just an excuse to do what
you want. It is not what God intended for the life of a
Christian.
– [ ] Lack of Balance
– [ ] The two extremes are intensely dangerous. One side is
that there are no standards of living and you are living
in what they call ‘grace’. The other side, everyone ought
to be perfect and that if you are not living that way you
are not welcomed. Neither of these two points have
positive outcomes. A church that balances love and
accepts all types of people and all stages of chrstian
development and combines that with a drive to help
improve and challenge those same people to take another
step towards Godly living. This church will present a
challenge or standard and back it up with a biblical
principal. The bible is our final authority and this
gives credibility for the standard. You can argue a rule
with no backing, however, it is difficult to argue a
standard based on God’s Word regardless of your stage in
your sanctification.
– [ ] Changes in Society
– [ ] The churches stance may not change, but as the world
becomes a darker place it becomes more noticeable and
because of this draws more attention. To get away from
this attention the church might dim its light and
accommodate to the darkening world or just put out the
light because it is noticeable and allow the church to be
consumed by the darkness it was repressing.
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Google Releases 3D Warehouse and Sketch Up
3D Warehouse is where users can submit 3D models of anything. Why would Google ever want to get into this? Remember, Google is getting into everything. They will one day rule the world. So you need a 3D model. Download it. They also provide a free 3D modeling program called “Sketch Up”. I’m definitely excited about this because I was recently going to get back into 3D modeling in Lightwave but I think I am going to just do this. Also, I just learned that Adobe has released a plug-in for Photoshop CS3
I Miss You, My Hawaii
So I left Hawaii today, now yesterday, to start at my summer job in Lancaster, CA for Lancaster Baptist Church. It was sad leaving Hawaii because I love it so much but it’s exciting to come here to Lancaster and to be a part of some action! I can’t wait ’till tomorrow when I move in and get set up. It’s going to be great! No telling what might happen. My new employers may ask me to stop blogging during the term of my employment. I’m fine with it and if that happens then I’ll apologize now to my readers. We’ll see what happens. So I leave you with this hula: