Found this post in an old blog while conducting an internet enema, and it filled me with nostalgia for the days before smartphones. Thought I’d re-post it.
Last week, I found myself shivering with cold sweats. It had been ages since I had spent a ridiculous amount of money on a marginally useful gadget. So, despite [...]
If you have any dreams at all of being able to do instant messaging on your iPhone, you want BeejiveIM.
I know, I know, it’s expensive ($15.99) compared to such suck-fests as the AIM app (free), Palringo (free), and Mobile Chat ($2.99). But it’s sooooo worth it. Trust me – I tried all the instant messaging [...]
If you’re using MobileMe push mail, and you make changes to your mail accounts (any of them, even if you add one), it sometimes goofs up the push. Dunno why; it shouldn’t. But it seems to, and I spent ages trying to diagnose why my MobileMe mail wasn’t pushing properly after I added a Gmail [...]
I was never a huge fan of the Firefox browser for Mac. I wanted to be – it’s open-source, has add-ons, great tabbed browsing, etc. – but it simply wasn’t suited for the Mac. It didn’t look like the other Mac apps, it was a bit heavier than Safari, etc.
Then they released Firefox 3.0, and [...]
If you haven’t tried out Del.icio.us, you don’t know what you’re missing, whether your’re on an iPhone or a desktop. Del.icio.us is an online bookmark manager (free) that allows you to post bookmarks to it and tag them. These bookmarks are then available anywhere.
The advantage of this may not be immediately obvious. It’s not a [...]
The iPhone offers a custom signature that you can attach to just your iPhone emails. My advice? USE IT. Put something like “sent via iPhone” or “sent via mobile” in your signature.
It’s not about bragging. The email replies you send from your iPhone are bound to be terse and economical. If your contacts don’t know [...]
In order to make up for the less-than-stellar performance of a touch-screen keyboard, Apple’s done some really really excellent work with auto-correct and predictive type. Whenever you type, the iPhone is constantly second-guessing you, offering you words it thinks you’re trying to type, regardless of how many times you hit x instead of c.
Apparently, turn-by-turn GPS is on the way, courtesy of TomTom. At least, this is the buzz in the blogosphere. TomTom announced that it’s navigation software was successfully operational on an iPhone, despite rumora that the iPhone GPS antenna was not powerful enough to support it.
So hopefully we will soon have yet another way to drain [...]
I realized that this thing dildnt send MMS (picture) messages, but what I didn’t realize (and should have) is that it can’t receive them either.
It simply never occurrd to me that a phone this advanced and grounded in consumer-level telefuckery would lack even the basic ability to get a picture message.
Epic lame.
What’s more is, when [...]
I get waaaaaaay too much junk mail on my iPhone using my MobileMe account. MobileMe’s server-side junk mail filter appears to be some kind of joke on behalf of the MobileMe development team. Seems all a junk mail message has to do is basically wink at the filter, and the filter will happily bend over [...]
Jeremy Pippin is a writer and web consultant living in the New York metropolitan area.