Jun 09 2009
Safari 4 good:
bad:
The latter is really annoying me. Since I am working in Microsoft Live Search, my opinion is not completely unbiased, but I would really like to be able to change my default search engine from google.com to bing.com. Every other search engine allows this, so why not Safari? To compound matters, Safari does not have a very widely used plugin system, and I have not found an authoritative plugin which allows me to change my search engine.
Sep 11 2008
Let’s get one thing straight. If I open the lid of my MacBook Pro and type my password into the prompt then I DO NOT WANT MY MAC TO IMMEDIATELY GO BACK TO SLEEP. Dammit.
Jul 15 2008
I just played Cube Runner on the train. Cube Runner is an excellent, fun, free game for the iPhone.
I was doubtful before I started, but seems it is possible to play accelerometer games on the iPhone on a train.
In fact, I just got my hiscore.
This seems counterintuitive, like breaking a bone to reset it, but it forces you out of the comfortably wrong equilibrium where you try to control everything smoothly and puts you in the rough zone where you have to respond quickly.
In fact, unstable equilibria often have significantly better responsiveness than stable ones: modern fighter jets are made much more maneuverable by being aerodynamically in an unstable equilibrium.
Jul 11 2008
I had a hard time yesterday evening resisting the back door download of the new software, and told myself I would wait for the official release in the morning. In the morning… no official release. I checked a few times and nothing… nothing… nothing…
It has been released! The iPhone 2.0 software update has been released! I am downloading it now.
But something went wrong with the installation…
… and now my iPhone is bricked. Oh No!
Looking at Console log there are a number of interesting error messages, like:
7/11/08 8:43:21 AM ….com.apple.iTunes MobileDevice: AMDeviceConnect: This is not the droid you’re looking for. Move along, move along.
Update: I now seem to have installed the 1.1.4 firmware successfully, but the “contacting the iTunes store” step fails and the phone is left in emergency call only mode. It looks like the iTunes servers are down and so can’t activate the phone.
Updated update: finally, in the afternoon, I managed to successfully (and easily) install the new firmware on my phone. Awesome.
Jul 10 2008
The office today is filled with squeals of delight from early adopters of the 2.0 firmware and new iPhone apps. Super Monkey Ball is unsurprisingly incredible.
Jul 08 2008
I am a big Mac fan, and use an iPhone, a Mac at work, and a Mac at home. I rely heavily on a few things to synchronize important information: .mac (shortly to become mobileme), 1Password, and Evernote. 1Password and Everynote have iPhone versions – important to me – and use the internet as a storage medium for data, while .mac is currently mostly about being an internet storage device but is also clearly just about to get an iPhone interface.
