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Incongruous breakfast
The guy at the cash register looked at me funny ... low fat granola, low
fat yogurt, low fat ... chocolate milk ... and a über-processed "Grande
Danish" in a plastic bag
fat yogurt, low fat ... chocolate milk ... and a über-processed "Grande
Danish" in a plastic bag
Below the rim
We eventually got to about 1200 feet below the rim, or about 5800 feet
above sea level.
above sea level.
Slight overcharge
Register allowed clerk to accidentally scan a UPC code into the
quantity field. Glad we caught it before they swiped my credit card!
quantity field. Glad we caught it before they swiped my credit card!
Wouldn't you like to go to space on this trip?
What in the heck did they have in their coffee when they were writing
this copy?
this copy?
iPhone loses an email
So I've opened a new email on my iPhone, but it hasn't downloaded the
content yet, when my hand slips and I accidentally hit the trash can
icon. Zoop, my email gets sucked into the trash can.
content yet, when my hand slips and I accidentally hit the trash can
icon. Zoop, my email gets sucked into the trash can.
Hrm, no undo here. What is the Apple approach to something like this?
Ah, yes, go to the Trash, open the email there, and move it back to the
inbox. So I go to the Trash and open my message there ... although it
still won't download the content. And then I hit the icon to refile it,
choose the Inbox, and get a message saying it can't be filed in the
Inbox.
So I try it a couple more times, eventually force-quitting the Mail
application, and then try it one more time. This time the email
disappears from my Trash ... then I get the message saying it can't be
refiled ... and the the message disappears completely. Not in the
Inbox, not in the Trash, nowhere.
Gack. Thank goodness I'm on POP instead of IMAP. At least I can go
read it on the web.
Aeron chairs hurt
Ever since the dotcom days, I've sat in several dozen Aeron chairs. And you know what? They've universally hurt, usually just under my thighs as the front edge digs into my legs all day. I've tried the Small, Medium, and Large versions (feel under the seatback at the top, there are 1, 2, or 3 dots to indicate chair size). To heck with lumbar support, fancy mesh, and pneumatics. I want a wooden dining room chair.
Reactivating the Sidekick
A couple of months ago I got my Sidekick 3 all ready for eBay, erasing all of my data, cleaning every little crease and corner, and packing all the original pieces back into the original box. My high bidder ended up punking out on me, so I left it sitting on my desk while I decided what to do next.
Well, I was recently packing my laptop bag for a business trip to Michigan when I suddenly got the urge to grab my Sidekick. I pulled it back out of the box, grabbed the charger, and tossed them in my bag. A couple of nights later I charged it up in the hotel room and booted it up to poke around, and I got excited about it all over again.
So a couple of hours before flying out, I used Google Maps on the iPhone to find a local T-Mobile store, and ended up reactivating the Sidekick. I didn't want to sign up for another 1-year contract, but come to find out T-Mobile just introduced a sweet month-to-month package that is pretty much the same as the contract package. So for $30 a month, no contract, I was able to reactivate the Sidekick on an unlimited data-only plan ($0.20/min voice). That way, I could test out the Sidekick without having to terminate my iPhone contract or move my phone number.
The big shocker was when I put in the new SIM and booted up the Sidekick. It asked me for my username and password, and I entered my old one that I used to use. It was still active, and over the next few minutes, all my data trickled back onto the Sidekick from the Danger servers: calendars, address book, bookmarks, notes, the whole thing. And there I was, back in business as if I had never left. I was back in love.
Well, I was recently packing my laptop bag for a business trip to Michigan when I suddenly got the urge to grab my Sidekick. I pulled it back out of the box, grabbed the charger, and tossed them in my bag. A couple of nights later I charged it up in the hotel room and booted it up to poke around, and I got excited about it all over again.
So a couple of hours before flying out, I used Google Maps on the iPhone to find a local T-Mobile store, and ended up reactivating the Sidekick. I didn't want to sign up for another 1-year contract, but come to find out T-Mobile just introduced a sweet month-to-month package that is pretty much the same as the contract package. So for $30 a month, no contract, I was able to reactivate the Sidekick on an unlimited data-only plan ($0.20/min voice). That way, I could test out the Sidekick without having to terminate my iPhone contract or move my phone number.
The big shocker was when I put in the new SIM and booted up the Sidekick. It asked me for my username and password, and I entered my old one that I used to use. It was still active, and over the next few minutes, all my data trickled back onto the Sidekick from the Danger servers: calendars, address book, bookmarks, notes, the whole thing. And there I was, back in business as if I had never left. I was back in love.
Commuter jet last week
About 6' inside. Once a flight attendant told me to "watch my chin" as I boarded one of these.
Fistfight: iPhone, Apple Mail, and Yahoo! Mail
So I'm using Yahoo! Small Business mail for work, and have been downloading my messages via POP. Everything has been going fine for a while now, with the exception of periodic "please reenter your password" messages from Mail.app. However, recently it had become unbearable - I'm getting the password message every 5-15 minutes, all day and all night. And then I realized the problem: both the iPhone and Mail.app were trying to get at my mailbox at the same time, and Mail.app was losing out.
Unfortunately, Yahoo! Small Business mail doesn't (yet?) have an IMAP option, so I have to access it via POP. So for now, my solution is to disable mail on the iPhone. However, when I then try to access Yahoo! Mail via the web interface on the iPhone, it defaults to the mobile view (boo!) and therefore only lets me see my personal mail, and not swap over to the business mail.
Hmm.
Unfortunately, Yahoo! Small Business mail doesn't (yet?) have an IMAP option, so I have to access it via POP. So for now, my solution is to disable mail on the iPhone. However, when I then try to access Yahoo! Mail via the web interface on the iPhone, it defaults to the mobile view (boo!) and therefore only lets me see my personal mail, and not swap over to the business mail.
Hmm.
The iPhone tilt sensor
The iPhone tilt sensor is a magical thing. Except for when you are laying on your side in bed, trying to read nyt.com, and the screen keeps rotating on you because it assumes you want the screen parallel to the floor. I've become pretty adept at holding it at a 44.9-degree angle.
More whiny iPhone to Sidekick comparison
A few things I am really missing from my Sidekick (see a theme here?)
• The Sidekick apps all retain state when you leave them and come back to them later. But on the iPhone, if you're halfway through entering a URL, for instance, and have to go respond to an SMS, when you come back the URL is gone and you have to start over.
• Sidekick auto-complete reads my mind. iPhone autocomplete makes fun of me.
• Unless I'm paying a lot of attention, my fingers sometimes drift to the wrong place on the screen on the iPhone, and since there's no tactile feedback, I end up accidentally doing all sorts of things to my iPhone. The physical buttons of the Sidekick - and any other phone, for that matter - make it easier to either not do it in the first place, or at least have a sense that you may have accidentally hit something.
• With the Sidekick, there's an idle screen that always shows if you have new emails, IMs, SMSs, or other notifications. The iPhone requires, at a minimum, a click-slide-click to get an overview of your notifications.
And no, I'm not a Danger shill.
Time to put the iPhones on craigslist?
So we're beginning to seriously consider putting both of the iPhones on craigslist, eating the early cancellation fee, and moving on to the next thing. Really. And here's why:
- Um, guys, cut and paste?
- Seriously godawful coverage at home and across the Chicagoland area (but great coverage in Arkansas!)
- Poor performance with our Motorola headsets, including low volume, crackling, long delays when answering the phone via Bluetooth, and a convoluted process to turn Bluetooth off and on
- Tired of all that pinching about when surfing the web
- This $&@! keyboard, which my wife finds completely unusable, and I find to be an absolute distraction, especially after frequently hitting 20-30 wpm with the Sidekick keyboard, nearly without looking at it, and with no mistakes to boot
- Six or seven clicks to get to the camera; by that time, not only have the kids stopped being cute, but now they're making fun of your inept fumbling with the glass-faced phone
- Up the tree, down the tree, up the tree, down the tree when trying to read mail in more than one inbox
- Lack of an IM client, which I never really thought I used that much, but now know I do (did)
- No accented keys on the keyboard ... so it's really hard to write emails to friends in Spain ... did you know "ano" with a tilde over the n means "year", but "ano" without the tilde means anus? Gives "feliz cumpleanos" an entirely new meaning, eh?
Aargh, I miss my T-Mobile Sidekick 3. As it turns out, it was the only one of my older phones that didn't sell on eBay. Beginning to think about getting it out and dusting it off...
- Um, guys, cut and paste?
- Seriously godawful coverage at home and across the Chicagoland area (but great coverage in Arkansas!)
- Poor performance with our Motorola headsets, including low volume, crackling, long delays when answering the phone via Bluetooth, and a convoluted process to turn Bluetooth off and on
- Tired of all that pinching about when surfing the web
- This $&@! keyboard, which my wife finds completely unusable, and I find to be an absolute distraction, especially after frequently hitting 20-30 wpm with the Sidekick keyboard, nearly without looking at it, and with no mistakes to boot
- Six or seven clicks to get to the camera; by that time, not only have the kids stopped being cute, but now they're making fun of your inept fumbling with the glass-faced phone
- Up the tree, down the tree, up the tree, down the tree when trying to read mail in more than one inbox
- Lack of an IM client, which I never really thought I used that much, but now know I do (did)
- No accented keys on the keyboard ... so it's really hard to write emails to friends in Spain ... did you know "ano" with a tilde over the n means "year", but "ano" without the tilde means anus? Gives "feliz cumpleanos" an entirely new meaning, eh?
Aargh, I miss my T-Mobile Sidekick 3. As it turns out, it was the only one of my older phones that didn't sell on eBay. Beginning to think about getting it out and dusting it off...