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iPhone – Who needs a netbook?

By | Published June 25, 2009

I admit I am an online junkie who spent most of my awake time being online whether is reading my feeds, searching for information, twittering or haninging out at facebook. I do it while at the comfort of my home, in the office, outside or even when I am driving. I used to carry around my netbook as I feel my Macbook Pro 15″ is kinda heavy and troublesome to be carry around when I am outside. I do carry around my Blackberry but I find it not a good experience when I wanna surf the web or engage in a conversation online.

Ever since I have an iPhone, that changes everything. No longer I need to carry around a netboook with me all the time. The web page rendering is superb for a phone (although I wish it has flash support…come on adobe and apple). I can reply email in an instance and get working done while I am sipping coffee at Starbucks. I can engage in skype conversations, go thru my facebook even doing chat in it, update my twitter plus many more 24×7 without worrying whether I am in a WIFI area or not. Superb thing is now I don’t even have to carry around my camera often as when I see something I like, I just snap it, post process it with either Camerabag or Camerakit and send it off to twitter, facebook or flickr in an instance. Is like a computer only that it is now pocketable. I believe sooner or later many will be dumping their netbook and will be carrying an iPhone or similiar phone like Android.

Best of all is the “Location Service”. Yes, many phones now has GPS built-in but none except maybe Android has use it in a new way. Now I can twit about things that is happening and show the location I am at, Snap a picture of my car and post it to evernote with a linking to the location of my car, check for the nearest movies nearby and see what is playing and many more. This is really powerfully stuff except I do hope Apple would come out with a longer battery life as a fully charge iPhone can’t even last me half day of heavy online usage and I didn’t even make any calls. And when I do need to use a laptop outside I can now do tethering with the 3.0 update when WIFI is not available.

By the way, I am writing this with WordPress app via my iPhone :)

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Twitter – A new way of life

By | Published June 24, 2009

I have been a twitter user for quite sometime now and I have to admit initially I really don’t see the whole point of it as most people are using it to write “what are they doing” in 140 characters. But lately I have been very active as I realized twitter is more than a tool for your own status updates. I see it as a source of information coming in at the speed of light. And I do notice I do get news faster than CNN will ever be able to provide. Gone are the days I keep refreshing websites for live feed such as WWDC as I can get all sorts of information from so many people streaming in live as it goes.

For those of you wondering what twitter is all about or how best to use it as a tool for information you can check out this site for more insight.

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Happy Fathers Day from my kid

By | Published June 19, 2009

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Got a surprise from my son Ethan and is priceless.

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Type Drawing

By | Published June 19, 2009

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I have been digging around with the iPhone app call Type Drawing and I think is pretty cool. Still trying to turn out something better from it and I wish later updates would be more flexible in terms of me controlling with the fonts of the drawing. Currently is kinda hard to get used to it as running your finger slowly will produce smaller fonts and faster will create bigger fonts. I still need time to perfect it.

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iPhone 3.0 updates

By | Published June 18, 2009

I waited till exactly 1am last nite to update my iPhone after waiting for a full long day. The anticipation was great and if you look over tweeter feeds there are thousands of them cursing every seconds why is the updates not up yet.

Anyway the update was kinda fast and smooth except iTunes fail to verify my phone and the phone was lock for an instance. All this was fix after I pulled the USB cable and plug it back in.

Back to the features I am looking for. Basically only two things about this update that is of interest to me. First is the Cut, Copy and Paste which I have yearning for so long but I think is worth the wait as I think Apple really nail it perfectly for a touchscreen interface.

Secondly is the tethering. I am happy now I don’t have to depend on my Blackberry to do it and I think Apple does makes it very simple to setup. With Blackberry I still have to figure out all the ISP setting such as APN and iPhone really takes all those troublesome away from us. I haven’t try it on a Windows notebook yet but I hope it is as easy as the setup being done on a Macbook Pro.

Overall I am happy that finally iPhone offer what I have been looking for since its inception.

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