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iFeel a little better about my Phone

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Okay, day three playing with my new iPhone 2.0 software and I can say that this is ALMOST better then my iPhone 1.1.4 that was jailbroken. The only missing piece is my Last-FM Audio Scrobbler Plug-in for iPod. They did release a Last-FM app, but were unable to include the Scrobbling of iPod songs yet. Getting that out of the way, here are the new apps that I have grown to love (in order):

  1. Todo - took me a while to find it, but it syncs with Remember The Milk. Finally, I can have my list wherever I go, even if there is no internet connection. For instance, my Trader Joe’s as is in a dead zone for AT&T. I forgot the milk more then a few times.
  2. Mobile Flickr - There are a few Flickr Apps available and some for free, but this one is a bit more polished and lets you upload.
  3. MotoRacer - This is a fun game. I was dyeing to try a game that used the entire phone as to steer. That is just cool.
  4. Pandora Radio - Solid app. Works over EDGE very well.
  5. midome - This will guess a song that you hum. Yes Really! This is not very useful for me as is does not work for a lot of the obscure music that I like, but it is cool nothing the less. It guessed “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” from “Smashing Pumpkins” on the first try.
  6. FileMagnet - Will transfer and show a variety of file types. So far I have tried png images and pdf files. Simple and elegant interface.
I my neck hurts from looking down at this phone all weekend but I have not been able to stop myself. I am not sure if I feel compelled to get the 3G iPhone with all of these new features to play with. Maybe I will wait for the next big breakthrough. More battery life? Edible case? Who knows.

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iFumble

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Well… I am one of the thousands holding a useless iPhone today. At 6:20 am PST, I started the the slow upgrade. I went through a download, backup, 3 restarts, and a restore. Then after all of that, in the process of activating, I get a long “Accessing iTunes Store” wait.

Accessing iTunes Store

This goes on for 20 or so minutes, in which time, I decided to check to see if MobileMe was up… OOps, looks like that is down too:

MobileMe is down

Then, iTunes finally gives me an error message:

iTunes Error -2

I am not exactly going to sell my stock now but this will not be good marketing. Apple is trying to break into the enterprise market and I think this will make I.T. departments think twice. From reports that I have seen this is effecting both 3G users and EDGE users that are upgrading around the world. My Advice… WAIT.

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