Why buy a hammer if your never going to use it?

July 15th, 2008

One of my pet peeves is people who buy SUV’s but drive them like their in a classic car. Today on my way to work, I had the displeasure to be behind a driver of a Land Rover who would not drive with any sort of sanity. They were driving 20 mph in a 40 zone. The car was not new, so it wasn’t a situation where they didn’t know their vehicle. To top it off, they crawled over the drive way entrance into work afraid to jar their vehicle.

Why in the world would you bother buying a vehicle that can go off-road and leap tall buildings in a single bound if your never going to drive that way? That little bump between the street and the parking lot is NOT going to hurt your car. Your not even going to feel it.

More apps to die for.

July 14th, 2008

I grabbed a few new apps today. The one that stands out and is going to be a huge success.

The app is called Shazam. The application works this way. You hear a song, you say, “hey… I know that song, but can’t remember the name.” So what is one to do… Whip out the iPhone with Shazam, push the tag button and hold the phone up to the music and wait. A few seconds later it will identify the song. But WAIT that’s not all. It gives you links to take you to the iTunes music store so you can buy it and download it.

Now this is really going to sell some phones!

2008 Olympics site

July 13th, 2008

Just an FYI that it seems the olympics official site is hosted in China. I assuem that they will sensoring information coming into and out of china like they do for everything else.

The NBC web site is host at: http://www.nbcolympics.com/

Applications on my iPhone

July 12th, 2008

I installed the following apps this week.

  • Yelp (business locator)
  • Remote (control itunes on a remote computer)
  • French, German, Spanish dictionaries with speech
  • Jott (check out jott.com, killer voice to text note taker)
  • Baseball (stats for all the baseball teams sorted by year)
  • EasyTask (a task manager I am trying out)
  • AIM (AOL Instant messenger chat client)
  • 105 Classics (Internet radio station streaming client)
  • ShoppingList (create shopping lists, for fee app)
  • LiveSportz (still have not been able to get it working)
  • People (white pages search client)
  • Light (Turn your iPhone into a flashlight)
  • Facebook (simple Facebook client)
  • Whrrl (find friends in your area)
  • Twitteriffic (Twitter client)
  • Save Benjis (Internet search tool for products by name or bar codes)

I think I have exhausted all the free apps 😉

I am such a TWIT.

July 12th, 2008

Ok, so I resisted for a while….. I am now on twitter. Why am I on it? Well, I upgraded the new iPhone software to 2.0 and noticed a twitter application, so I figure if people really care about what I am doing on a semi-real time basis, who am I to disappoint them 😉
You can find me under my standard username Darkavich.