Work at the Beach
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Santa Monica beach so empty. The walk here was a really nice break from work.
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I eyed the iphone up
6 CommentsWill the Iphone be a huge seller. Yes. Is it worth getting now. Nope.
Why will it sell?
It looks nice and it’s Apple. Apple has a devoted following. Some follow so blindly it makes successful suicide bomber recruiters give props. Apple makes great products but the iphone is riding the Apple branding like Turtle rides Vinnie Chase’s fame. People are now convinced that anything Apple releases will be good. I remember reading a TechCrunch article on this. I would give you the link but I don’t enjoy searching the TechCrunch site. Anyway, the article showed a poll where an overwhelming amount of people felt the iphone was the best cell phone. This was crazy then because most peopled polled most likely never held or even seen the product. This is very similar to the Lebron James NBA draft. People were convinced that this kid was going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread without knowing much about him. They just knew that he was on ESPN every hour.
Simply put. It’s too hyped not to sell but that doesn’t mean its going to change the world. Well, not right away.
Why is it not worth buying yet?
Was Lebron James amazing his rookie year? Yes, but he wasn’t the best player in the league. Will the iphone be a good product when it comes out? Yes, but it won’t be the best cell phone available. It is the first version of a product chain that Apple has never released. There will be problems in the first version, probably big problems. I want one but I would rather wait for the second version after real user bugs have been found. Let the sixteen year old kid with sticky fingers text every five minutes for about six months.
Is it over priced?
Depends on how you look at it. Apple somehow convinced a large amount of people to spend three hundred dollars to get a video ipod that they don’t watch that much video on. Think of all your non geeky friends that have a video ipod. I am willing to bet that more then half of them don’t really watch videos on it and probably don’t use up all the disk space. So why do they have it?
It looks nice and other people want/have it. Yea, thats it. Apple made sure that the iphone looked amazing. It’s just like the hot chick your friends all want to hook up with. At first its all about the looks and the reputation you get when you have her. It’s only after a few months you realize her touch screen interface has major drawbacks and you might have been better off waiting a year for her sister to be legal.
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CrunchGears has some reviews up. My favorite has been Mossberg’s and Pogue’s videos.
Pros I didn’t expect
- You get used typing on it and it becomes easy
- The wifi feature seems amazingly cool
- Internet browsing might actually work on a phone now
Cons
- The battery is sealed inside so if it gets messed up you have to send it back to apple.
- The regular data connection uses AT&T edge which supposedly sucks.
- No Flash or Javascript
The internet feature looks remarkable. I shall write a comment to this blog about it later.
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Angels Game 2
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Where’s Moe?
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Angels Game 1
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Where’s Moe?
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Ugly Mugs
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These ugly mugs are hanging out in Orange at the Ugly Mug Cafe.
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A Detour
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I had to stop in Westwood yesterday, so I had a scenic– or not– drive down Wilshire to work.
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a mobile life
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This is my second test of mobile blogging. The first involved sending email from my blackberry to the blog’s gmail account. Unfortunately, wordpress can’t pull down gmail using ssl pop. This time, i’m writing from the mobile browser… And the blog let’s me do this using a special plugin made to display nicely for such mobile browsers. I shall be playing around with other solutions, but this seems to work for now.
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a mobile life
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Launching XULRunner 1.8.1.3 on a Mac
2 CommentsOk. I started playing with XULRunner again, but this time on my Mac. I downloaded a Mac build; I went through the getting started page and reviewed the tutorial; I had my XUL application ready, and then started it up:
/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/xulrunner-bin application.ini
IT FAILED, ARG!!! The xulrunner-bin process launched and promptly exited, and I couldn’t find any debug information about why. I checked and double checked, but I didn’t find any problems with my super simple XUL application. I even purposely broke my sample XUL application to try to get an error message– but nothing.
SOLUTION: Out of a hunch, I followed the deployment instructions and packaged up a “MyApp.app” Mac application. I launched it from Finder– `open MyApp.app` also would’ve worked from the Terminal– and it worked like a charm. It’s kinda hackish to develop in MyApp.app/ subdirectories, but it works…
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Termite, Gambit-C Wish
No CommentsI wish to find a better way for Termite to be installed without recompiling Gambit-C; all because– you know– I use the Gambit-C MacPort.
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