Validate Your Life

This is in place of the Tuesday News Blip for this week.
I got a huge kick out of this video.

Very impressed with the diverse collaboration of so many well known people for this humorous anecdote of Billy boy’s last day. Also, it’s always amusing and cool to see so many well-known people just casually operating in their down time modes out of the limelight (albeit a humorous glimpse). Magnifico.

Here’s another interesting sequence of videos showing alternative angles from the technological leaders of Microsoft and Apple, twists you would wouldn’t expect like:

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Woz. He’s so brilliant. But he just appears so gypped in the business world. Trampled on by cutthroat business sharks. But ironically he’s the smartest person with apple. The mind behind the first apple computer.

Jobs definitely always pushed the sales. Woz is just a curious. He just looks so uncomfortable these days! Like uncomfortable with his body. One interesting pattern you’ll notice here is that Woz is continually talking about the past. “That’s the way it worked back in the day.” “Back in the old days…”. That’s great, but I think Steve Jobs’s prescience and vision and Bill Gates’s ability to always stay on top of new market trends makes for better business leadership.
Here he is reaffirming that the tech business (unfortunately) became about programming and actual “tech” work and instead, more about business, wearing the right suit, and sales.

Just a recent update on eReader. So far this app has crashed multiple times and failed to download the book on my electronic bookshelf. With signing up for an annoying web-based account, the vexing crashes, and the books that never download, don’t get the eReader app; it’s just way too bug-infested, cumbersome, and a time-drain. Jott, and Todo, on the other hand, are excellent productivity apps.+

Well, iPhone continues it’s assault in knocking off numerous other electronic devices. Along with GPS devices, household-wide remotes, now it’s the killer device for the Amazon Kindle Kindle.

It’s also going to slaughter the less popular Sony Reader

eReader.com released an elegant and intuitive eReader app on the app store. The app itself and the ereader.com account that let’s you download full books are both free. Sure you pay for modern books, but I just downloaded Jules Verne’s “Around the World in 80 Days” for free (most all classics are free) and can view it with the beautiful flip technology on the iPhone. If you can find a book on project Gutengerg, it will most likely be on eReader.com from which you can view it on your iPhone with eReader’s cool “page-flipping” software.

Here’s some photos I took utilizing iPhone 2.0′s image-capture technology.

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It’s just so cool that with the most recent software upgrade, Apple has adopted the very same — IDENTICAL — naming practice I personally use for a lot of my files. Naming files month-day-year is dumb because when scrolling through hundreds of date-named files (like photos) you want to see the year, then month, then day. Apple adopted that and so is now going with the “flow” I’ve been using just in my own personal organization with backups for apps like Address Book and iCal. Additionally, funny and icronic is it’s adoption of the “bu” shorthand. Before (And still currently) I had “bu” (for back-up) everyonewhere. Three different “bu” folders. “bu” this, “bu” that. And then amazingly both iCal and Address book files are named ICalBackUp or .icbu and AddressBookBackUp, or .abbu! It’s awesome to know when the OS you use extends the organizational practices you’ve adopted!!

Just to refute non-Iphone believers (haha!) like Richard Sprague who wrote:

“Without even mentioning that the same functionality has been available on PocketPC, Palm, Nokia, and Blackberry for years, I just have to wonder who will want one of these things (other than the religious faithful). People need this to be a phone, first and foremost. But with 5 hours of battery life? No keypad? “

There simply hasn’t been a good phone on the market. If you flash back to THIS GREAT ARTICLE (when I fink the link, I’ll post it), you’ll recollect just how many hoops Jobs and Apple had to jump through to get the iPhone approved with a carrier. How many, no doubt, calls, meetings, and white-knuckled negotiations he had to do to get his invention into the marketplace. In many ways, iPhone is the 2nd coming o “Mac” altogether, too! Here’s the insightful blurb form the article:

Apple engineers bought nearly a dozen server-sized radio-frequency simulators for millions of dollars apiece. Even Apple’s experience designing screens for iPods didn’t help the company design the iPhone screen, as Jobs discovered while toting a prototype in his pocket: To minimize scratching, the touchscreen needed to be made of glass, not hard plastic like on the iPod. One insider estimates that Apple spent roughly $150 million building the iPhone.

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Utter mayhem has been released with people’s bricked iPhones and server delays with mobileme. Despite those temporary delays, I’m still convinced apple has it in the bag and the fact that it’s juggling so much, merely shows it’s versatility.

With mobileme launching two days ago, the transition between old school .mac and mobileme, the iPhone 2.0 upgrade, the release of the app store, AND the new iPhone 3G released all within the same 48-72 time span?! Jeez, each of those huge projects (mobile me, .mac-mobileme, 2.0, and iPhone 3G, and app store) — 5 massive undertakings, I’m astonished things are running as “good” as they are! Seriously. Just one of those projects could (maybe should?) have been the focus of apple’s “integration” teams for atleast a month or quarter of year, but piling them all into the same 2-day span?!! I mean that’s a great marketing explosion, but it can also result in an infrastructure explosion with such change simultaneously. Anyway, Apple still has it in the bag.

Just think, the heap o’ troubles users experienced today was temporary, a fleeting removeable blip in the apple experience…just think, microsoft and non-apple os users experience todays mayhem ALL the time! haha!
Basically, I think apple will resolve the technical difficulties, and also they were kind of expected given how much they’re endeavoring. I still give htem props, though, as always.

Well, the 2.0 iPhone OS upgrade should be out (for free, yes!) soon. The newly added Address Book search features, advanced calculator, and other trivial to incredibly useful tweaks and adjustments will further solidify and expand the intuitive features and potent features of the iPhone.

Someone got a hold of an xml link from apple’s servers, apple tried to catch it, but the link spread virally, and now you can upgrade to 2.0 before the official release (Holding down option while clicking upgrade software prompts a window sheet to locate the upgrade locally). However, this is unadvised.

When the crystal ball was examined after the WWDC many guessed June 27, ’08. I’m itching as much to get that 2.0 software upgrade to test out the free apps as many are eager to get a 3G!

Pogue’s recent article of the app store made me realize just how BIG the iPhone is from an electronic industry point of view. The iPhone won’t just knock of GPS companies, it will consume companies that sell house-wide remote controllers (Apple’s Remote app makes all such devices obsolete practically). It’s easy to foresee that the iPhone will cannibalize many other related electronic devices because of consolidation sake: Why spend money and have the extra clutter of an additional electronic device (like a GPS or a house-wide remote) when you can just utilize your PHONE to to acquire those features! Apple has intuitive, potent simplicity combined with consolidation of numerous electronic industries all plugged into its single iPhone device. Utter brilliance. What also has become apparent is how the iPhone truly will become the “third” tier of apple (along with Mac and iTunes).

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Conclusively, Apple’s App Store is sheer brilliance.
Taking online merchandizing of great iPhone apps out of web browsers and into apple’s home field of iTunes from a marketing and a development perspective advances apple incredibly. This will further the music revolution making iTunes “The” online community for buying (and now selling) apps, music, and anything that will enhance the already astonishing features of the iphone. Here’s my detail of the outlook on navigation, gaming, reference, and cool knick-knack’s for iPhone sdk.

The remote free app

JUST format look nice

I’m a die-hard apple fan. have been and always will be, I’ve even put “tinker with iphone SDK” on my todo list, but Okay, this is kind of a nuance comment of sorts, but I couldn’t help but noticing how many “empty sound spaces” there were in, albeit well-rehearsed and totally gnarly wwdc 2008 keynote, where the audience was supposed to clap and “whoo-whoo”. At one point I think Phil even reminded the audience that it was okay to clap. Another strange moment was when Jobs showed the browser speed comparions between 3G edge and wifi — an illustrious demo showing the advanced speediness of the 3G, but didn’t anyone else think it looked very strange to see 5000 developers in an audience staring at one man on a stage staring at a web page, watching it load for 59 Seconds (The edge speed). Theatrically that was so bizarre. Did anyone think the amount of clapping had lessened?

One thing that crossed my mind was that with bill gates basically resigned from the apple-microsfot chess game (apple clearly having won), maybe developers are demanding more from apple? Or maybe my recent acting worked made watching a webpage load just a “different” kind of performane? Who knows.

Either way, I’m stoked about apple’s progress and the sweetness of teh iphone. I MUST continue to watch wwdc keynotes and any other keynotes related to apple. Essential coverage of my favorite OS.

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I seriously must watch these on a regular basis. Invaluable tidbits regarding my favorite OS.