So, it’s been nearly 2 months since I last blogged… I’ve had quite a few things going on in those two months, probably as much or more than when I first moved to TN. I started remodeling my kitchen – the counter-tops will be delivered on Friday if all goes as planned, then I’ll get the sink in and things will be all good. I also changed jobs – I went from a relatively huge public company with 55K-ish employees to a little bitty private software company. It’s been quite a change, but it’s great – it’s exactly the type of job I was looking for and I’m enjoying the people there (although I do still miss the people at the previous employer). Overall though, it was the right move and I have no regrets. Anyway – I plan to start blogging a few times a week at least from now on, but we’ll see what happens.
iPhone Thoughts – One Month Later
I’ve had my 4GB iPhone for about a month now so I thought I would share my impressions now that I’ve had plenty of time to check things out. Overall, I’m still very happy with my purchase, but there are a few annoying things:
No Tasklist. I don’t know why Apple decided to include all of the other PIM applications (contacts, calendar, notes), but decided to leave off a tasklist. I really miss that feature from my Windows Mobile phone. Hopefully Apple will add this soon
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Random Crashes. It isn’t clear why it happens, but every once in a while, the iPhone will freeze and I’ll have to reboot. Most of the time, I can just use the home button to kill the application and things are fine (although you usually lose whatever data you were updating, if any, when you do this). It doesn’t take long to reset (maybe 20 seconds), but it’s still a bit of a pain. My Windows Mobile phone and my PocketPC seem more stable (and I don’t have non-Apple applications on my phone).
No local downloading. You can browse anything you want via Safari, but you can’t save anything. I had one time when I really wanted to save a PDF document for viewing later or even e-mail it to myself…but the iPhone doesn’t support that.
No copy & paste. There have been a couple of times when I needed to take a snippit of a webpage (or even copy a URL) and paste it into a note or e-mail, but at present, there is no ability to copy and paste on the iPhone. Of coure, there are still the original issues of not having Flash support and no Assisted GPS.
But other than these few issues, the phone really works well. The photo viewer works great, the call quality has been excellent, the EDGE network in my area is certainly speedy enough for everything I’ve needed, and the battery life is better than I expected. It may not be the perfect phone, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.
Business 2.0 is Dead
I’ve been a loyal reader of Business 2.0 for quite a few years now. It is one of the only magazines to which I subscribe. I really look forward to getting it each month to see all of the new business ideas and to read the magazine’s take on various things. Well, I just received my October copy and this is the end of the road for Business 2.0. Apparently they never figured out how to get/keep advertisers interested in the magazine and it the magazine’s parent company decided it didn’t bring in enough cash to trouble with keeping the magazine alive. Some of the staff are going to write for Fortune, but I just don’t think it’ll be the same. All of the other magazines are stuffed with ads, so I may buy a 100 page magazine, but only 40 of the pages are actual content…and I’m not interested in flipping through ad after ad to find a handful of stories that interest me – so I doubt I’ll pick up a subscription to anything else to replace Business 2.0. Oh well, it was good while it lasted.