Fan-frickin-tabulous!
This means a number of things, not the least of which is that I can try the new Mail App on Friday without fear of liking it.
Oh, and mail could just be usable now on the iPhone. This is just huge for me.
I’ve been trying out a new rule lately. It goes like this…
Pick one thing from your list to get done each day and do it *before* you check your email.
Sure, it’s not going to save the world, or your GTD process, but it sure has been working for me. I try to pick something that I’m likely to procrastinate the minute my email inbox has something more “important” in it.
Learn stuff for free, thanks to MIT.
“MIT is committed to advancing education and discovery through knowledge open to everyone.
OCW shares free lecture notes, exams, and other resources from more than 1700 courses spanning MIT’s entire curriculum.”
How cool is that!?
This Leica M3 Prototype (number 16) is being sold on eBay. Current bid, $71,000. That’s a little steep, but the M3 is still one of the most beautifully engineered objects of any kind.
Chris Stephenson, GM of Global Marketing for Zune, when comparing Apple’s iPod to Microsoft’s Zune, says,
“We’re not the hardware company they are,” he said, laughing. “But then again, they’re not the software company that we are.”
I wonder why he was laughing when he said that.
Gruber:
The idea that Apple has screwed over or even somehow been rude to the grassroots iPhone developer community is absurd. Apple never asked for nor encouraged iPhone software development, and the fact that it happened anyway put Apple under zero obligation to support it.
There’s only one way to pressure Apple into opening up iPhone development, and it isn’t by developing underground iPhone apps. It’s by not buying iPhones.
They make best computer hardware/OS combination in the world. Always have. A Macbook Pro running OS X is wonderful.
Every iPod I’ve owned has worked flawlessly from day one. Easy, and no problems, ever. I’ve had 6 of them and all but the one I lost is still in use.
The iTunes Music Store makes finding and legally downloading music easier than stealing it, DRM or no.
I was trying to plan my schedule for Adobe Max next week using their nifty Flex app. The app is okay, but actually scheduling sessions was nearly impossible. I first spent 20 minutes organizing things, then closed the window. Every modern calendar app, especially fancy new RIAs like this one, save your changes automatically. Nope. Start over.
Trying to add a session caused a conflict with an existing one. Here’s the dialog telling me what to do about it…
“New Layer from iSight”. Yep, drop a new layer into an image right from your iSight. Every fancy new image editing app includes this as if someone actually asked for it. Wasn’t me.
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