I thought it might be a cool idea to get through a list of applicatons i’m using on the iPhone and what each application does. Sometimes it’s hard to get an idea of what iPhone apps you should try out, so here goes my list.
Original post date: 2008-07-05
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Something just occurred to me this evening and it has to do with software companies and the monopoly ‘lock in’ tactics that some use. Microsoft was pulled up over forcing Internet Explorer on people in XP many moons ago now and I’m sure we’re all completely happy with how it eventually turned out, most of us use Firefox and Windows now recognises something called a ‘default browser’.
Fast forward a few years and we’ve seen Apple since day one, ram iTunes down the throat of every ipod owner in the world. This was understandable, after all it’s a portable music player and it only ran on OSX to start with, so it’s ok to force a music player that’s already installed on the operating system along with the device to provide sync support, in fact it totally makes sense. That is until they released on windows and iTunes wasn’t that great, also for years we’ve all been using Winamp or Windows Media Player and have no desire to switch to iTunes.
Through some work of magic i dragged myself out of bed at 6am this morning so i could get into the city by 8am to goto the PayPal Developer Day, a half day event put on by PayPal to engage the web developer community. While the day was great and I learnt alot about PayPal’s products, a few issues come to mind.
Last night mid-way through my train ride home i had a sudden realisation, i had no idea where my phone was and I left the office with it, OUCH. The though patterns started to retrace, etc. I got off the train a stop early and shot to my parents house to use their phone to try call it, unfortunately the battery on my phone was dead.
Sitting at my parents house I started to realise where it got to and convinced my mum to drive me 40 odd minutes back to work and wait for me while I looked everywhere for it. You can be assured I didn’t find it and in a way I’m kind of retrospectively happy about it.
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The plugin adds an itunes button to the visual editor which when clicked brings forward a dialog containing a search for the iTunes store link maker.
After searching, clicking on any link will ask for a title for the link and insert it into the content editor. The link also enables the ability to directly link to albums, something the standard link generator does not normally do.
Enough gaff, if you want it, it’s here. It’ll be on wordpress.org soon enough.
So finally it’s here, Turn-by-turn directions, Bluetooth A2DP, MMS and Push notifications amongst other things. Apple are really pulling out the big guns here and it’s nice to see we’re finally starting to get a phone thats feature set is on-par with the rest of the devices out there.
Coupe all this with the fact i’m really starting to not hate the iPhone as much as i used too, because i barely use iTunes anymore and i might just start to be happy with my purchase. You can check out some pictures of what’s coming over at Engadget and also see Apple’s iPhone 3.0 Preview Presentation.
Something just occurred to me this evening and it has to do with software companies and the monopoly ‘lock in’ tactics that some use. Microsoft was pulled up over forcing Internet Explorer on people in XP many moons ago now and I’m sure we’re all completely happy with how it eventually turned out, most of us use Firefox and Windows now recognises something called a ‘default browser’.
Fast forward a few years and we’ve seen Apple since day one, ram iTunes down the throat of every ipod owner in the world. This was understandable, after all
So, earlier today while bashing our heads against a wall we were trying to locate some information on the SVEC FD7419 KVM Console Switch. This piece of hardware has been installed in the office for quite some time now and since then we’ve been through about 3 or 4 sys admins and nobody really knows how to configure it.
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