Tomorrow I leave for a month in Paris. I expect my Internet access to be limited, and won’t be able to post — though I doubt it’d be noticeable if I didn’t post this. I’ll return July 28, upon which you can expect an increased post frequency as I sort out some priorities.
Au revoir, mes amis!
iPhone OS 3.0 has been released and I’ve had the opportunity to play with it. All in all, it is a very welcome improvement, with numerous enhancements and improvements. Quite a few guides have been published enumerating these additions, so I’ll keep this brief. Among the many new features, I found the following seven to be particularly helpful.
- Spotlight. While being able to access everything in a couple of keystrokes is extremely useful, the real benefit is in the iPod app. I often have a particular song on my mind, and I can now call it up within seconds. For apps, it’s still easier to swish between screens: typing on the iPhone still isn’t efficient.
- Notes Syncing. The previous lack of Notes syncing forced me towards Evernote. With syncing now supported, it’s more of a toss-up: Notes is easier and more efficient, but Evernote is more powerful.
- Widescreen Keyboard. The widescreen keyboard which previously was only available in Safari has been extended to Mail and Notes, making typing a quick email a breeze.
- Undo. Shake to undo. Simple and intuitive.
- Stocks. There is now a landscape view featuring a large graph, which can be clicked to view historical prices. Stocks also have more information available, including market statistics and news. It’s still far too cumbersome to quickly look up a stock.
- AutoFill. Safari now automatically saves form and login information, nullifying the need to mess around with 1Password.
- Google Calendar. Though iPhone OS 3.0 includes support for CalDAV, it unfortunately doesn’t support delegated calendars, making it relatively useless for my dozen calendars. Thankfully, Google has updated their Exchange-based sync tool to support up to 25 calendars.
For the low price of free, it’s a no-brainer for existing iPhone owners to upgrade. For iPod Touch users, the added features merit the $9.95 upgrade price.
I quite enjoyed this creative music video, which is something since I generally don’t like rap nor music videos. (One caveat: I don’t think the female dancer at the end matched the tone of the video.)
(Via Dan Meyer)
T.S. Eliot writing on his reasons for rejecting George Orwell’s Animal Farm:
I think you split your vote, without getting any compensating strong adhesion from either party — i.e. those who criticize Russian tendencies from the point of view of a purer communism, and those who, from a very different point of view, are alarmed about the future of small nations. And after all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm — in fact, there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue), was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.
(Via John Gruber)
Vermont has become the fourth state in the Union to legalize same-sex marriage, and the first to do so in a democratic manner (through the legislature). It suffices to say that I’m proud to be a Vermonter.
That is all.
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