Mail
Push: broken. iPhone only updates on arrival of new mail. Everything else requires a pull, which it doesn't do automatically. So if you read an email in webmail, iPhone will keep it unread in per-pe-tuity.
Webmail I: Doesn't automatically update on arrival of new mail. Just sits there.
Webmail II: Saves a draft while you're typing, nice. Doesn't delete it when you send, stupid.
Webmail III: Browser title doesn't tell you if there's new messages.
Webmail IV: Is fixed to Cupertino time. All my emails are coming in with timestamps like 4am. Useless.
Webmail V: Doesn't colour quoted text. Very 1991.
Webmail VI: Only searches from/to/subject. Very 1981. At least it's quick
Web Calendar
Timezone support: Pretends to have it; doesn't.
Summer time: Can't cope with British Summer Time. Event made for 3pm during GMT will either appear as 2pm or 4pm after switch to BST.
Therefore: Near-useless. It's a CALENDAR, APPLE. A CALENDAR. Times are fundamental.
Syncing: lovely. Very lovely.
Gallery
Flickr: Does it better, faster and with less aggravating URLs
iDisk
Hahaha: hahah hahahah hah hah, heh.
Cost
High.
Frustration
Higher
me.com: a bug's life
My favourite iPhone app yet
Is Instapaper. It works like this:
1. Sign up at Instapaper.com and install their bookmarklet in your browser.
2. Install Instapaper on the phone via the store
3. When you see something good on the web but don't have time to read it, click the bookmarklet.
4. Open Instapaper on the phone: it downloads and converts the page and saves it locally so you can read it whenever you like, even offline.
It's genius, really.
saying nothing at all
So much for my pledge not to start another link blog, but this is a top little essay on how to write:
Psychology no doubt makes us better men and women, more sympathetic and tolerant, but it doesn't make writing any easier. Had Shakespeare been confronted with psychology, "To be or not to be" might have come out, "To continue as a social unit or not to do so. That is the personality problem. Whether 'tis a better sign of integration at the conscious level to display a psychic tolerance toward the maladjustments and repressions induced by one's lack of orientation in one's environment or -- " But Hamlet would never have finished the soliloquy.(via the goddamn great Big Contrarian)
a versatile storage solution for modern living
So build she did, around the clock for 38 years until her death on Sept. 5, 1922. The house now has 160 rooms, 47 fireplaces, 10,000 window panes, 17 chimneys, 950 doors, and 40 staircases. It is famous for its nonsensical architecture, with hidden rooms, staircases leading to nowhere, cupboard doors open to solid brick walls and secret passages.
--Winchester Mystery House
From the super cool places you should visit blog.
BBC iPlayer and the Mac
So, yes, it does kill your router, most usually after 5 and a bit minutes. BT know about it. (The Home Hub is the same horrible router branded by lots of people, including Be. It's an Alcatel Speedtouch, I think. Awful. Avoid.
it is happening again
Tiny post: the new 3G iPhones don't include a stand, which you're really going to want. (They did the same box-stripping with the 2G iPods as well)
continential philosophy
it’s often suggested that Quine must have been wrong because conceptual analysis is what analytic philosophers do, and there must be something that they’re doing when they do it. That put a brave face on it, but there were guilty consciences wherever you looked.Jerry Fodor
