![]() ![]() You can develop a site for the always-connected Desktop, and have it work nearly 100% with the iPhone! How cool would that be?Įdit – considering neutered web-browsing experiences – my shitty Blackberry browser truncated the post when I went into Blogger to move it from Draft to Post. If they don’t this device could _really_ be revolutionary. This is all presuming that Cingular doesn’t neuter it by forcing everything through some aggressive kind of aching proxy, which most carriers do to save bandwidth. But what if I want some kind of interactivey kinda application? XmlHttpRequest, baby! That’s “Ajax” to you less-webdev-oriented people. And who cares if you can't run your little Atom API blog posting software on it – you can just log right into Blogger. This means it _doesn't_matter_ that you can't run MS Office on it – you should be able to run Google Docs just fine. It has a fully, 100% desktop-compatible, web browser – Safari. In re: it's closed – yes, but, in at least one sense it's actually infinitely open, and more open than any phone before it. S’ok.Īuthor uberbrady Posted on JCategories apple, Google, iPhone 3 Comments on Two items, tenuously related – Google and iPhone OS 2.0 IPhone further thoughts WeatherBug – Not bad, little more detail than your regular Weather app.Mobile News – Simple, does what it’s supposed to.It’s weird, and I keep feeling like I don’t know what I’m doing with it. Loopt – I can’t tell if this is genius, or shit.Scratch – Pretty cute toy! If the controls were a liiiiittle more real-timey, it would be better.NetNewsWire – Pretty straightforward, probably a few point-releases and it will be good.NYTimes – Nice concept, crashed on me and even took my phone with it once.Whrrl – Haven’t fiddled to much, dunno.Remote – Haven’t tried it yet, but I hear good things.eReader – requires an account? May toss it.Twitteriffic – sluggish, pretty…jury’s still out.Like some kind of guy who just wandered out of a desert into an all-you-can-eat buffet, I’m stuffing every single application that looks like it might be interesting – and many that aren’t – onto my phone. It could also be that I was poking and prodding my phone all the time, but I do think that Exchange activesync whatever it is seems to slurp more juice. However, my battery has suffered, for sure. I can send, receive, accept, and decline meeting requests. Emails show up on my phone faster than they show up on my computer. The fact that it wanted to WIPE OUT my contacts Really, really freaked me out! i don’t use the calendar on my phone all that often, so wiping that out and replacing it with my Exchange calendar is not a big deal. ![]() I wanted it to ‘automagically’ figure out that I was on Exchange before, and I should now be on Exchange and use Push features, but it isn’t that clever. I had to delete and readd my account, twice. They’re no Microsoft, yet, but they definitely are mortal.Įxchange support took a while to get going. Prick them and do they not bleed? Their dominance can be challenged when they misstep. They’re human beings – flesh and blood, like you and me. I’m not yet 100% convinced about how well it works – I still get definite feelings of ‘clunk’ going on, but I can read my newsfeeds while in the subway. And, just like that, in the blink of an eye, I move off of google reader, and onto NetNewsWire for Mac and NetNewsWire for iPhone. So the iPhone 2.0 software came out (more about this in a minute). ( Bias alert: I have thought about solving this problem a different way.) Being able to use Gears with my google Docs and google reader are both pretty neat though. Take a look at this architecture description, and my gut says they’re doing it wrong. This is a browser plug-in that lets you access web applications offline, as well as online. Once I’d gotten it into my head that super behemoth Google can slip up, I was able to look at another feature I’d thought about myself before – Google gears. But here they built a thing, and finally they say “Whoops, sorry, we’re taking this thing down now.” There are alternatives, of course, but I just thought it interesting, because it made me think of them different. Nope! It’s been discontinued…perhaps there wasn’t enough take-up? Perhaps there were too many internal business conflicts regarding it? Who knows. Though I’d been working without it while using the Firefox 3 Beta, once FF 3 was officially released, I assumed a new version of the plug-in would be as well. Pretty neat, sure, though a little scary – though what with Google isn’t? After Firefox 3 came out, I tried to see if I could grab the latest Google Browser synch. This was a neat little extension you would install in Firefox, and it would automatically synch your bookmarks, cookies, history – everything – to a central Google server somewhere. We always think of Google as the unstoppable juggernaut that can do no wrong. ![]()
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