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Dan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:00:52 +0000

5 Things That Should be in iPhone 2.2 but Are Not

Dan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:59:34 +0000

iPhone OS 2.2 is on the way! Yay! Well… sorta. The mighty Apple has already released a list of new things we can expect to see in 2.2 but unfortunately, many of the features people are clamoring for are still not there. Here are a few we are all still waiting for…sigh.

1. Copy & Paste
Perhaps the most highly anticipated feature. The ability to copy and paste seems like a no brainer for the iPhone, with its multi-touch capable interface it should be as simple as touch and drag to select text, double tap to copy, press and hold to paste. People wanted it in 2.0, they bitched about it not being in 2.1 and yes, we are still bitching about it not being there in 2.2. When will Apple get the message?

2. Landscape SMS and Email Keyboard
Some third party apps give users the ability to use landscape keyboard in emails but support for native landscape emails and sms messages is still a pipe dream. Apple already has the landscape keyboard implemented in safari, why not extend that to ALL keyboard-based input screens?

3. Turn by Turn Directions
iPhone 2.2 promises Google street view and walking directions. So the phone can tell you where you are and turn by turn directions to get you where you want to be, but it can’t do that for you while your in a moving car?

4. Native Key-Vibe
This is just a simple feedback feature, you press a key, you get a little phone-vibration as feedback. Jailbroken phones already sport this ability but it seems like something that should have been a native option from the start.

5. Improved Service Updates
The refresh rate on iPhone service is still awful. I can walk out of my building where I have 0 bars into the heart of the city where there is full 3G coverage, and I still see “No Service” for a good 5 minutes?! It’s a sad day when you have to throw the phone in/out of airplane mode just so it detects its own network.

iPhone OS 2.2 will have some cool features and stability upgrades, but it will also be missing alot of things that I was hoping to see in this release.

As technology get’s smaller, I lose more

Dan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:53:58 +0000

Today’s hi-tech devices are getting smaller and smaller. Remember when your dad whipped out the “video recorder” when you were little? It had a big fluffy windscreen on the microphone and it was powered by a hulking VHS tape and pappa had to wield it on his shoulder like an RPG to capture those kodak moments? Those days are long gone. Today’s technology fits in the palm of your hand, or should i say, it fits under the door of your room, or under the tip of your nail.

Technology is on a shrink-ray craze. Ipods went from being a veritable brick to being thin as paper and light as driftwood. And now, their notebooks have gone that route as well. But is all this downscaling a good thing? I always thought it was, I’m a tech guy! I love smaller, faster, cooler gadgets!

But now I find myself searching for my mini-sd card for my digital camera. I wanted to take some pics to make my next post more interesting, but alas, the half-inch square piece of memory that serves as the foundation for my digital photography is nowhere to be found. I can’t remember where I put it- but even if I could I don’t know that it would matter, its so small im not sure I’ll ever find it again.

2gigs of solid-state memory lost, forever? I’ll inevitability end up buying another card, they are cheap relatively speaking. But it just made me think about where all this smaller-is-better thinking is going. Hell I can only imagine what would happen if i lost my MICRO-sd card that powers my cellphone… all would be lost, that thing is less than .25″ square.