Birthing & iphones

 
On this day when the prophesied 3rd generation iPhone will be announced, I wanted to post my thoughts on my sturdy, reliable 1st gen iPhone I use and have used every day since it’s release in the summer of 2007.

Yesterday, in a haze of activity in a home where we have a newborn (part of my story here), I decided i needed to finally mow my lawn for the first time in this season.  Using my handy cathcart jeans, which I seek out as a favorite pant style solely for the purpose of using the tightly integrated side pockets to hold my iPhone, I set out on a borrowed mower since ours is stubbornly not starting at the moment.  At some point yesterday, as we all ran inside to dodge the falling rain, I noted that my iPhone was no longer at my side.  It was late and I was tired, a constant state for me these days, so I gave up the hunt and went to bed.  Today, actually just now, I decided it was time on this sunny morn to have a look around and backtrack where I have been.  Sure enough, there it was, in the middle of my lawn having been driven over more than once I am sure, by my lawn mower.  Amazingly it was never touched by a blade, though likely run over by a tire once or twice.  It lay there all afternoon yesterday, including while it rained.  I now have it charging up as I write this.

This thing had been amazing… I have dropped it at least 300 times if not more.  And it wasn’t until I was in El Salvador last autumn when I dropped it while running down some steps and it flew out of my hands as though I had thrown it that a crack in the screen accured. Since then I have done that same move or similar to it and it is cracked worse. 

I have “loved” this phone deeply; love implying that things we love we use ferevently, like an old dogeared book.

So what about the birthing?

Well, I want to not recommend using your iPhone to listen to music while your wife, or you are performing a REALLY important task, like giving birth. 

Last wednesday the 3rd of June, as my wife was pushing our newborn 3rd child into this world and we were listening to a sublime playlist comprised of native and eastern spiritual tones someone decided to call me… oops.  It was the chiropractor who promised to come into the hospital to adjust my wife while in labor, but the timing was too late and awkward while my wife pushed for this little guys life.  Needless to say I got our music back rather quickly, but still… take my advice… if you are preparing for a birth do one of tow things, use the iPod for that perfect playlist or turn the phone part of your iPhone off, put it in airplane mode!

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Build your own iPhone app

Wanna learn how to build an iPhone app?  Tons of new resources are popping up everywhere.  Apple and Standford have just announced their iPhone Application Programming course and it is available for free in Stanford’s University courses in iTunes U in the iTunes Store.

There is also the Viximo iPhone application called VixML to help you with drag and drop + a little basic web coding language.  Their auto generated email to me included this little overview:

“VixML allows designers to create rich iPhone content. And who created VixML? Viximo did! We’re an internet startup in Boston, Massachusetts that distributes user-created virtual goods to websites and mobile devices like the iPhone.”

Registered users of VixML are given an SDK (software developer’s kit) and all the tools needed to create your own app and submit it to Apple.  Pretty cool.

And of course there is the Apple SDK itself, downloadable for free to anyone at apples developer site (once you register yourself there).

I’ve got a string of things I’d like to see on the iPhone, You?

Macheist includes iPhone apps!

I just remembered to go to MacHeist for 10 really great applications for the iPhone and Mac for $39.  It ends in 5 days so go check it out before it ends… in previous years I often just missed it and was pretty bummed, so at least go check it out. 

The iPhone app allows a great access to your iPhone while it is on the same network.  It is called Phone view:

So go get it adn enjoy!

MACHEIST 2009

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My Messy Office Video February 10, 2009

My Messy office, shot using Qik on a jailbrocken iPhone. Very cool app! 02/10/2009 04:32   4 views

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Family iPhone plans to think about

FYI…

Also, just so you know, 3G will NOT be available until later this year… so it is Edge for now… breathe…

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Unicel is Now at&t, and iPhone is now in Vermont

For all of you in line reading this on Thursday the 15th of January, YAHOO!!!!  You made.  welcome to the real iPhone experience, no longer is it a dream… you are on the threshold!  For those of you still sitting on the fence, here is what the other’s are seeing, sans (without) iPhone as these shots were taken yesterday.

For those of you who have not been in yet, Unicel is no more.  On Monday all Unicel Corporate stores opened as at&t stores.

Here is what it looks like now…

Inside…


everyone is waiting…

Iphone Kiosk sans iPhone

Any of you with photos of the iPhone waiting line or of your new iPhone, or anything, please post them here and I will post them on this blog today and over the next few days.

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First reported owner of Vt purchased iPhone 3g

Congratulations to Lew on being the first to report back here with a shiny new iPhone 3G!!

Will you wait to buy an iPhone now?

This just in…

New Multi-Core iPhone with Firmware 3.0?

ZDNet reports that the iPhone 3.0 firmware will support quad-core processors in an upcoming iPhone hardware revision. While Apple has not yet detailed iPhone 3.0 firmware, MacRumors has independently heard from a reliable source of this same multi-core support in the 3.0 firmware which should accompany the next iPhone.

Meanwhile, Imagination Technologies is announcing a multi-core GPU that could be suitable for iPhone use. Apple, an investor in Imagination Technologies, presently uses a less powerful version of their PowerVR GPU in the iPhone and iPod touch.

The likely candidate for the new iPhone’s CPU, however, is a derivative of the ARM Cortex A9 multi-core processor. The ARM Cortex has excellent power efficiency, well ahead of Intel’s Atom offerings. Apple appears to be an ARM architectural licensee and their acquisition of P.A. Semi has brought low-power chip design expertise into the company.

Thursday January 08, 2009 05:15 PM EST; Category: iPhone
Written by Arnold Kim

I tend to believe that Apple will do a real announcement with something to bite into before spring.  They have a lot of juicy stuff on the burner, both Mac Mini and iPhone based, no doubt.  So…will you wait?

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No iPhones for small AT&T outlets in Vermont…

As recently noted by a commenter here, it was confirmed in a meeting in Montpelier of licensed resellers for AT&T (Radioshack style outlets who sell other products and also sell cell phones) they will carry all phones but iPhones.  The Stowe retailer, Vermont Electronics owners confirmed this after today’s meeting with AT&T. 

Needless to say for a small store like theirs this is a real letdown as they have existing clients who they would happily stock these phones for, and of course this is all everyone who is aware of the transition is thinking of.

Boo.

So we can all commute to the closest Full AT&T store for our new iPhones.

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Vermont… be satisfied with what is already in the present iPhone

That’s right… no new iPhone models, not even a new Mac Mini.  Today’s announcements given by Steve Jobs fill-in Phil Shiller, amounted to a new iWork, iLife and a new 17″ Mac Book Pro.  Oh, and lower prices for songs purchased on iTunes, that is if they are DRM songs of lesser quality than the DRM free versions: $.69

The iLife, iWork, Leopard box set $169
 
Specs on the Enviro 17″ MBP

Well, ok there is an update to the iPhone… or an app.  You can now access iTunes Store directly from the iPhone on the cell phone network!  Big deal.

All in all this MacWorld was a downer as far as the Keynote is concerned.  The big releases will be given likely in February or later by Apple from the Apple campus in Cupertino, CA.

Until then… when AT&T is in Vermont, gut off your lazy duff and go get an iPhone… IMHO you will not regret it.

The closing act, Tony Bennett