Trying out a blog post from the iPhone 3G.
Update: So I dropped by the Apple Store at Stanford this morning about 9:30 AM. The ratio of sales folks to customers was about 10:1 – and I was able to acquire my iPhone 3G in less than 10 minutes. So far, so good – although battery life is obviously a challenge – at least on the first day when I can’t put it down!
Walt Mossberg is out with his initial verdict on Apple’s new MobileMe service – and it’s not pretty.
My own personal experience (without an iPhone but using my iPod touch) has been similarly frustrating. I’ve not been trying to sync cross-platform – just among my primary MacBook Pro and the iPod touch – along with wanting to see everything in the new MobileMe web applications.
Things seem to be getting better day by day – but the whole experience has been very disappointing. Walt’s right: “If Apple does get MobileMe working smoothly, it could be a terrific service. But it’s way too ragged now.”
It’s great to see that Yahoo! has acquired Inquisitor, one of my all-time favorite Mac add-ons. Inquisitor, written by David Watanabe, has been adding to my Safari browser experience for the last couple of years – and it really makes searching a lot faster for me.
Over on Macintouch, Robert Mohns has written a very comprehensive review of Amazon’s Kindle.
Kindle excels in part because Amazon has designed the entire user experience (like Apple’s iPod and iPhone), in part because of Amazon’s partnership with content publishers, in part because of its connectivity… but mostly because when you read a Kindle, you forget you’re using an electronic device.
Yes, I still love mine!
Here’s a test of a tag cloud generated by TagCrowd. This tag cloud is based on a the transcript of today’s Apple earnings call (from Seeking Alpha). In this test version, the links aren’t connected to the actual text in the document – that requires more work.
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I’m a big fan of Clayton Christensen’s thesis about the disruptive entry of new competitors attacking the unserved or overserved markets of incumbent players “from below”. Reading this WSJ blog post about Apple’s scheduled iPhone briefing next week with a focus on the enterprise, I was struck by how the iPhone just might be a very useful entry strategy for pursuing enterprise opportunities.
The YouTube outage over the weekend – a result of propagating bad BGP routing information – really makes you wonder. What if the propagation had been for PayPal’s home page – or some other major financial services site? Wouldn’t that have provided the ultimate phishing opportunity?
I recently upgraded to Microsoft Office for Mac 2008. After turning off the WYSIWYG font menus (due to the exasperatingly long startup time for Word), changing the default file format back to .doc from .docx, etc., things began to work for me.
I’d always been frustrated with the Paste Special approach to pasting in unstyled text from the clipboard – but had just lived with it in prior versions of Word. Joe Kissell’s spent a couple of hours writing a script that solves this problem in Word 2008. Highly recommended!
I’m a total addict of LaunchBar on my Macs (see Matt Neuberg’s review) – and this morning Lifehacker had a good tip about how to quickly get to a map in Google Maps given an address. I used their technique to add a Search Template to LaunchBar’s configuration page (using the string “http://maps.google.com/maps?q=*”) and now I can quickly get to a map of an address via LaunchBar. Cool! I do wish LaunchBar would let me share its configuration across multiple Macs.
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