White Whale friend, client, and Berkeley Law CMS-wrangler Dino dropped his iPhone while on a safari. Watch:
The phone survived intact!
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Jason is fond of pointing out a nationwide billboard campaign that had an image similar to this:
Likewise, Gruber points to this promo image for Microsoft’s new Zune HD:
Notice anything?
Guys, I have a secret for you: you control both the software and the hardware. It kills me that someone would take the time to take lovingly-staged product photos or actually lay out ads with this on the screen. If the designers who put together the billboard had written, “Now Available: BlackBerry Stor…” they’d be fired on the spot. Is there any excuse for this?
So I started this tradition in my adult life where I celebrate my birthday every year by purchasing a quasi-expensive item that resides on my mental wishlist. Sure, maybe its a silly tradition to some, but for me it is more like an annual graduation present, a sort of a “good job son; you’ve worked really hard this past year, and thus made it one year closer to your ultimate goals” in the form of an item that my scrupulousness would never permit me to purchase otherwise. Being the level 27 nerd that I am, these “presents” to myself have pretty much always been in the form of tech gadgets, this year being no exception, as I am now the proud owner of an iPhone.
Being that I adopted back in February—just after the fancy 16gb gen1’s release—I’ve been witness to a great deal of technological evolution, albeit in a fairly short time. After the first week, i had that “this could be better” impatience that we-the-ingenuitive get shortly after a brainstorm, and I jailbroke (a tiny hack that allows one access to the inner recesses of the iPhone) my phone, installing a ton of 3rd party apps just prior to a trip to Barcelona. These apps put a lot of the functionality I’d expected of my new pocket mac into motion, such as:
- being able to actually put documents of any nature onto the device without the typical iTunes rigmarole (seriously, that thing is going to BE osx at some point if it continues it’s trend of forcing users to become increasingly more reliant on integrating with it to use their files/gadgets).
- FTP access.
- reading, storing, and bookmarking PDFs.
- writing real text files.
- playing games (not crappy cell phone games, but emulation of the nes/snes/genesis/gameboy/etc childhood favorites that are still somehow desirable after all of this time. )
- and the usual osx ammenities like a dictionary, a translator, a conversion tool etc.
During our trip abroad, these new found features were invaluable, particularly in terms of communication and commerce when my American Standard/half-fluent/US Dollar programmed mind reared it’s ethnocentric head. Even after our return, I found these new abilities so infinitely useful that I couldn’t imagine the void that should be in their place. Read more »