Robin’s Attempt to Make Apple.com a Bit Sexier
Apple does these “guided tours” of new products where an employee comes to you from the white Apple void to tell you how awesome their latest tampon-shaped iPod is. The last girl they had was ok, but my wife Robin is way cuter.
Here’s her attempt:
Twitter Chatter: Push Notification vs Background Processes
I recently had a good discussion over Twitter with a PC fan about the reasons for Apple’s iPhone Push Notification in their upcoming 3.0 release.
Here’s the conversation via search.twitter.com:
The Simpsons on Apple
The WordPress iPhone App Works
I’m writing this post from my new iPhone 3G, and the transition from my old iPhone (now the ball and chain’s new iPhone).
I’m using the new WordPress app and it seems cool. Let’s see how the photo features work…
Hmm. Well I guess you will have to tell me if it really all works.
Tech Yourself Review on Toastedrav.com forthcoming.
What Mike Wants To See in the New iPhone 2.0 Hardware
- 3G. Enough said. I normally wouldn’t put this as high as this, but…
- I want the ability to use the iPhone as a Bluetooth modem for my MacBook Pro. I could do this with my old phone on T-Mobile! In fact, I could do a lot of cool Bluetooth tricks on my old T-Mobile phones that I can’t do with my iPhone. Like having my screen show the caller id when my phone is on silent. That was awesome! Where’s that Apple?
- Video capture support. I’ve totally fallen in love with my Flip Camera. So much so that I don’t want my iPhone to replace it like a lot of others do. I mainly would love video support for the iPhone so I can do cool stuff like Qik on there and broadcast live over the web at any given time.
- Better battery life. This one is pretty much required for all of the above features. Maybe “battery life” isn’t the way to say this, since I’m fine with charging my phone every other day or so, but it would need more juice to do all the stuff above. How about “better battery performance?”
- Better camera. In all honesty, the current 2.0 Megapixel camera in the iPhone is as good as the only other digital camera I have, but I’m always down for an upgrade.
- I guess real GPS…sure, why not.
- Louder speakers. They made the speakers a little louder with a software update, and thats great…its close now…but not enough.
- More space. A more roomy HD is pretty much standard on everything new version of a product that Apple or any company every makes, but if I didn’t list it, this would just be a Top 9 list and what the hell is that?
- A back that doesn’t dent. Yes. I dropped my iPhone a while back. It has a dent in the top right corner and a hairline crack at the bottom. The crack is fine. The dent bugs the shit out of me.
- A non-recessed headphone jack. Occasionally I would love to use my big headphones on my iPhone. Yes, I’ve seen the “adapters,” and no, I will never pay $20 for one.
Should I Buy AppleCare or Upgrade My Hard Drive For My MacBook Pro?
Here’s a Mac question I’ll throw out in to the internet ether: My MacBook Pro is coming up on its 1 year birthday, should I buy the AppleCare for it, or upgrade the hard drive to a speedier, bigger model (upon doing so will kill my warranty)?
Pros / Cons:
- I would hate to have something bad happen to my brushed metal companion and have no warranty, but I’ve never purchased Apple Care with my iMac or iBook and everything seems fine there, but its still scary.
- It would be awesome to get the speed and space increase that a new HD would get me.
- A new hard drive is way cheaper than Apple Care. Apple Care is $349 while a new 7200 RPM, 200 GB Seagate HD is only $149 @ NewEgg.
- Its not completely scary, but its also not trivial to replace the hard drive in a MacBook Pro according to the walk-through I’ve read.
Seriously I’m stumped on this one. Anyone have some thoughts on this?