iDay

Yes, it is iDay. I am very excited, and a little depressed. I am very excited because the coolest thing ever, or at least in a long time came out today. The Belkin Mini Jack Converter for that one thing from Apple. Is it the iFoam? Some packing material I heard. Anyway, I want an iPhone very badly. Fortunately, I am going to get one. I just have to wait like 8 months. And if I am at all lucky, there will be 3G by then. I am OK with all of its "flaws" except for the 3G. That should be better. I have to say I am a little surprised it is not there. There have been reports of people noticing that their Cingular EDGE networks have seemed a little faster and one guy even took a snap shot of his screen on his phone of the results of a speed test. He got 200k or something. And the normal for EDGE is like 150-180k. This could mean that AT&T is doing some work to make their EDGE network a little ore bearable. But still, 200, even 250k if they managed to get their EDGE speeds that high, would not be much of an improvement. If Apple were to put a 3G chip in the iPhone, and who's to say they didn't already and it is a software update away, you would have speeds of 400k-700k anywhere you had AT&T coverage. Not just in that lame little wi-fi hot spots. When I saw the keynote and saw Steve introduce mobile safari that was the "Real Safari" I was excited thinking that omg, the iPhone is going to be the Internet in your pocket. But no, not exactly, he comes along not to long later to tell us that it is only 2G. He had better be glad he is Apple, and that there are still some VERY cool features on the iPhone, because that would have been enough to loose my interest if they were say . . .Sony. I think Apple would make tons if they didn’t get into the phone market. They just had a wi-fi safari browser and a touch screen iPod, and sold it for $299.99, or even $249.99. I would go out and buy it that day. The whole phone thing, I just don’t know. If they had left that market alone, things could have gone well. Or if they had less mobile features and it was more focused on being an iPod and internet device. If it were unlocked, and you didn’t need a new contract, you just needed to take it to your Verizon store, your T-Mobile store, and they would activate it for you, that would in my opinion sell just as well without the carrier lock in. My reasoning I personally think that people are all hyped up about this iPhone is this. People at this point in time, are pissed off at their cell phones. This may be true more or less, but on average people are not 100% satisfied with their phones. But carriers are different. Carriers, people are not only pissed off at, most people hate their carriers, carriers, and their phones. People think of Apple as the company that does things right, the company that makes things beautiful, simple, and easy to use. Now when such a company announces that they will be producing a mobile phone, this is what makes people so excited. Apple technically is going to have their iPhones running on the AT&T network, but is going to keep the interference between AT&T, and their iPhone buyers, to a minimal. For example, the activation of the iPhone is done in iTunes. This basically says to AT&T, “We want our costumers to have the easy of use that they have grown accustom to when activating their iPhones, so you are obviously not in the equation, kay?” AT&T agreeing to this is not a bad idea. Although AT&T might not have much control, they are going to make huge profits. For those of you who did not know this, Apple originally went to Verizon, a much stronger and more reliable network (sorry AT&T fan boys if there is such a thing) and Verizon did not agree to the terms Apple was proposing. Now I don’t blame Verizon entirely, they had no idea what this phone was going to be capable of; they didn’t really get to know anything about it. All that Verizon was told is that Apple would have full control over advertising, and control rate plans, but it would be fair. Naturally, Verizon did not want anything to do with that. AT&T (then Cingular) knew about Apple, and what they were capable of doing. AT&T was able to see that giving up control of one of their phones could bring in large amounts of profits. AT&T eventually agreed, and we are going to see how things play out over the next few months. But for now, we are going to have to just wait. More about me though, I am going to Great America on Sunday, and tomorrow I will be doing iPhone stuff and homework all day. Hopefully I will get to touch one and do a short write off of the multi touch system tomorrow as well. Let’s move slightly away from the iPhone, and on to networking. Out of the box, Macs are fully open to talking to other Macs, I print to other Mac’s printers in my house, and I save files on another Mac’s drive. But I have never actually tried to network my Gateway laptop to any of the Macs. I only wanted to today because I do not have a printer in my room, and needed to print something. I only print once in a blue moon, so this never really came up before. But today I wanted to. I am able to print to the iMac in the basement from anywhere in the house on the MacBook, but I would like the same capability on the Gateway. Well, five minutes on a mixture of google and Mac Help, and I found out that if I installed Bonjour on my PC, it would recognize the shared printers and set them up in the windows printer utility for me. That worked instantly. But then I wanted more. I decided that I wanted file sharing as well. (btw, I used it to transfer this post which I was typing in word from the Mac to the pc) So I went onto google, I went onto Apple’s help page, but eventually got my help from some forums that I was to excited to take note of the name of. (Sorry unknown forum) Long story short, I am able to not only see, but read, write, delete files on my pc from my Mac now, and on my Mac from my pc. Of course, Apple makes it much more beautiful. Good thing I have an XP pc too, because I would not have done this on a Vista pc.
-Ryan

6/17/07

Ok, so I put google adsense adds on my site, feel free to click them, or not. I get paid when people click them, but there is something about taxes that doesnt make any sense to me, so I am not sure if I am ever going to get anything out of it. But they are not too obtrusive, and are supposed to be relevant to what I write about. I made an iPhone out of paper today, and made a video of it, which is the post right below this one. If anyone has any knowledge of how to handle the google adsense tax thing, please let me know.

tty all later.

-Ryan

My Paper iPhone

5/15/07

I was having a pretty good day until I got home. I found out that the two gadgets I hold dearest and closest to my heart, have both been replaced, and in the same day. My beloved MacBook, oh my MacBook, no exaggeration, I would run through a fire to get it if the house were burning down, has been updated and is twice as powerful for the same price I paid for it. That felt like a punch in the gut. Then, the Motorola Razr 2 was released, and I have the first razr, as do many other people, but I am still sad about the whole thing. I can live with not having the newest razr, but i feel really really ripped off that I paid for what 4 months later would buy me a top of the line macbook, for a lower level model. Ahhh, i am serious, i am pretty depressed about this. I think I need some good news today. Meh, ttyl people,

-Ryan

4/11/07

Today it SNOWED! Just the night before they said it was going to snow, I was out without a jacket on with bo. And then it freaking snowed! Gah, so yea, BOL is not going to be saying the day anymore. That makes me sad, I enjoyed that. Apparently T & V have seen M's baby, he is apparently A) Sleeping, or B) Very Angry and enraged. Which would mean it is definitely her son, lol. I am learning that I crave a smart phone more and more every day. I am almost definitely going to put in some extra dough when my contract expires to hopefully get the helio ocean, or the Amp'd Moto Q with all of those useless boring battery eating video , I like unlimited and 3G networks, with qwerty keyboards, they rule. But I must have a web browser, or it is not worth it. I like the t-mobile dash. Not as much as I like the sidekick (sexiness wise) but i do not know (didn't bother to check) if the sidekick is a fully functional smart phone as the dash is. If I end up getting a job at 16 (which i most likely will) I would probably switch to t-mobile just because they are strait forward, cheap, and you can hook any unlocked phone to their network. I have sent out 24 friend requests in the last hour on myspace. Mostly girls and some guys that have similar interests as I. I have had an okay school week. There has been plenty of fun ghosip, and shit. Well, I must update my ipodpodcasts that I subscribed to without thinking yesterday. Bty, I had a theory that with apple tv supporting up to 720p picture, the itunes store would have HD content rolling out in the next few months. Well, The Washington Post's video podcast is now in HD, and I assume there are more to come. EMI is drm free on itunes, as you may know, and MGM pictures has signed a deal with itunes to sell content. That is my current life situation, I mush shower and sleep now, I plan to attend school tomorrow.