Posts tagged iphone
February 26, 2008 at 9:13 pm · Filed under Design & Web Geekery
With the latest iphone update (1.1.4) offering nothing more than bug fixes, I thought I’d get around to posting my list of iphone most wanted. Many of these have been stated before, but a few I haven’t heard anyone mention.
Been said before, gonna say it again
- Copy & Paste
- Airtunes support - I wanna play my iphone tunes directly to my Airport Express
- Video capture support via the camera
- iChat - Though I don’t know how much I’d use it as I’m not as much of an AIM junkie as I used to be, but it’d be nice to have. Bonjour ichat with other local network iphones would be kinda cool too.
- Horizontal keyboard anywhere - would be great to have this for Notes, SMS, email, etc. And while your at it squish this keyboard vertically a bit more to give one more line of text visible.
- Search functionality - for email and a global spotlight which searches sms, email, notes, etc.
- vcard sending - I should be able to send my contact info as a vcard via email or even maybe bluetooth.
- wifi sync - at least for contacts and calendar
- Taking a photo for assigning to a contact should also place that picture in your photo roll.
- Email map routes to others. This should include the text list and a link to a google map.
- Save photo you get via email into your photos
Few new ideas that I haven’t heard elsewhere
- Network Printing - I’d love to print the occasional email or map directions via my networked printer.
- Clicking on the upper-left edge/wifi icon should bring you to the wifi settings screen - there are several times I’d like to easily turn off wifi so that it doesn’t ask me to join a network.
- Safari should have a larger (adjustable) cache - I hate when I load a new tab and then find out that all my other tabs are now blank. Also it should remember the previous pages info better. Come on I have over a gig free still use it!
- When zoomed all the way out on a web page a horizontal swipe should move to the next/prev tab - Since photos does this I keep expecting safari to do this.
- One The Go favorites photoset - make this work just like a music on the go playlist (which by the way I love the iphone’s on the go playlist functionality!)
- iCal event subscriptions should update directly from your iphone via the web - as it is I have to sync to my computer to get new subscribed events, which is dumb.
Things I don’t really need
- MMS - Don’t care. Sending my photos via email is more useful.
Third party apps I can’t wait for (come on release the SDK!)
- Twitter client
- Real Notes/Word-like app - ideally it would allow use of MarkDown formatting and have post to blog functionality
- To do app
- better calculator with “paper tape”
- better weather app - I want an hourly (or at least morn/afternoon/evening) forecast and the ability to see what the weather was like yesterday (great for comparison)
- RSS reader which downloads feeds so I can read offline
- a game. Hell almost any game will do. Though I am particularly interested in an iphone version of DopeWars. I can remember the stupid amount I played that on my Palm back in the day.
November 13, 2007 at 11:58 pm · Filed under uncategorized
I’m heading to PA/OH to see the fabulous Morley and my Grandparents.
Step one: public transit — my least favorite part. The MUNI bus was late by 15min (hence the sour look on my face in the photo). I’m now
on BART on my way to OAK which is going ok so far.
I’m packed light. Only a simple backpack and no laptop. Burning Man has taught me how to pack with the minimum of gear, but it took a bit of digital prep work to not bring the laptop.
I had slideshows I wanted to bring, music, and videos. I kicked together a couple slideshows to show the grandfolks and put them both on my iphone and on a flash drive. Music housed several places: shuffle for simple tunes and long battery life, iPhone for all my current favs, and my old iPod 3G 40gig for hauling the rest and storage. I rearranged a bunch of my music on it, adding a bunch of new stuff I’ve gotten recently but have yet to fully listen to. Unfortunately, the battery in my 3G dies faster than an anorexic on a desert isle, but it’s good for when I can plug in. I powered it up last night, and I’m curious how long it’ll last.
I also converted my DVD of The Decent to iPhone format and loaded it on, so I have something to watch on the plane. Wish I had time to convert another movie — oh well.
K time to get off BART!
October 23, 2007 at 10:44 pm · Filed under Design & Web Geekery + Blogging about blogging
Looks like Google has finally added IMAP support to gmail. Found out today via Gruber’s twitter and then noticed that Slashdot just noted it today.
This sorta makes my whole gmail/IMAP/iPhone instructions obsolete except for the whole using gmail as an archive thing. If you use gmail’s IMAP directly (rather then a routed approach like mine) you still have the problem of it downloading all your messages.
As such, I’m not currently planning on switching over to this from my own system. Another issue is that I wouldn’t be able just read/respond/delete as I have been doing, since I’d be deleting off of what is now my main archive. Actually reading this it looks like delete just acts like archive unless a mail is spam or in trash. Also you’d still need to send out through your other account if you wanted to use a different header email, since Exchange doesn’t like emails sent through gmai with a different header.
However, this does open up the possibility of using a different gmail account as the iphone IMAP pool for people who were hunting for an IMAP account but still like my system.
October 16, 2007 at 1:39 pm · Filed under Design & Web Geekery + Online Health Care
In light of the recent Greanpeace health report on the iPhone (view the PDF of Full Report), I’ve taken the proactive stance and created a health warning for use as my iPhone wallpaper.
I am releasing this wallpaper to the world in order to do my part in saving us all from the iPhone health menace! By downloading and installing this image as the wallpaper of your iPhone, you’ll be proactively protecting the health of babies and lab rats everywhere!
October 5, 2007 at 1:27 pm · Filed under Life, Meaning, & Selfhood
MUNI was late by 15min as per norm. I got to the airport on time still but ended up being the second to last in line. The last guy in line was also playing with his iphone — i wonder what the correlation is between iphone users and tardiness.
I’m packed light which helped as I didn’t need to check any bags. No need for my laptop now that I have my iPhone. Converted a movie to iPhone format for the plane flight — wish i had time to put another movie on it though. Also organized a couple slideshows which are on both the iPhone and on a separate thumb drive for use on any computer. For music I have my iPhone with my recent favs, plus my 3G iPod with the bulk of my collection (though the battery is on it weaker than anorexic stranded on a desert isle), plus my shuffle for times when I want to save battery life on the former devices.
Mmmm gadgets. They make air travel bareable.
August 21, 2007 at 6:27 pm · Filed under Design & Web Geekery
I’ve recently revised my Gmail, IMAP, and iPhones Tutorial. It was brought to my attention that there was an issue with MS Exchange which made emails sent using my set up read as if they were from: “Colin [my gmail addy]; on behalf of; Colin [my catcubed addy]”. So after screaming how much I hated Exchange, I figured out another solution (which is basically a slight revision of my first setup).
Change to outgoing server setup
Now instead of using gmail as the outgoing SMTP server, I am using my public facing email address SMTP server for outgoing. Also I have “Always BCC Myself” turned on so that sent email appears in gmail (mail sent back this way appears just like normal sent mail in gmail and is connected to conversation threads like normal — gmail’s magic that way). I also added a brief benefits section, added notes on optional configurations, and cleaned the tutorial up a little to make it easier to follow.
All these changes were made on the main Gmail, IMAP, and iPhones Tutorial post. As this is the main page being linked to and commented on by everyone, any future revisions will continue to be made on that page.
Tip Jar
If you are one of the wonderful people who added to the tip jar (located over in the right sidebar under my photo), I will email you noting this fix and will also notify of any future revisions to the tutorial page — think of it like getting free upgrades.
.Mac Issues
It should be noted that the .Mac issue has still not been resolved, and I haven’t had time to look into it, so it is not recommended to use .Mac for your IMAP at this time.
Stage Left…
OK that’s it for me! I’m signing out for a couple weeks for the big dumb dusty blinky campout!
