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Nifty new apps for my iPhone

December 31, 2008 By: eileen Category: techie geek stuff No Comments →

I am late to this but I have to say, Shazam is amazing! And free! I’m also really digging PageOnce; love the snapshot views of online accounts. Oh, and Allrecipes.com, if you like easy access to all sorts of meal ideas. And for vicarious enjoyment (for me), Snow Reports so I can see what the snow pack is like in places where there is a snow pack.

I really do heart my iPhone!

Dial2Do

November 04, 2008 By: eileen Category: techie geek stuff No Comments →

Jott has become disappointing now that it’s gone to a mostly pay service. Never fear! There’s a new free kid on the block called Dial2Do and it works almost identically AND it’s free (for now). You can import your contacts from a variety of Web-based address books.

Half an hour

August 15, 2008 By: eileen Category: techie geek stuff No Comments →

What is the time it took to sell my first generation on Craigslist (for $300). Which pays for the second coming. Nice!

Same as it ever was

August 14, 2008 By: eileen Category: another day in the life, techie geek stuff No Comments →

The second coming (aka the iPhone 3G) arrived today (via direct order from at&t - three days from order to pick up!) and it is as we speak in my hands. I am touching it as we speak. And it is THAT COOL. Say what people will, the iPhone still rocks the free world. And the 3G rocks it better.

Coincidentally, the poodles are back so it’s really all about second comings today.

Hallejujah!
another view  bijou! OR deja vu!

Neat tool!

July 29, 2008 By: eileen Category: techie geek stuff No Comments →

It’s called Vuvox, and it’s a mashup tool. Here’s a Flickr mashup of trippy photos my great niece and nephew took this past weekend using Photo Booth:

Jpe cloo id yhid!

July 22, 2008 By: eileen Category: techie geek stuff No Comments →

I can post directly from it iphonevmow! Too bad pterovtigebtectvdoesn’tvworl. :-(

Welcome to the new and improved osheas::blog!

July 21, 2008 By: eileen Category: techie geek stuff No Comments →

Now starring WordPress!

I officially became tired of constantly losing all of my template fixes every time I upgraded Movable Type. After the fourth time of MT nuking all of my sidebars and customizations I decided that the time had come to make the great leap forward…or maybe sideways. All content seems to have migrated in one piece (yay!).

The address is slightly different (http://oshea.net/weblog/), but there’s a redirect in place at the old location, so hopefully things won’t get too confusing.

Onwards and upwards!

Cool! I want one of these, too!

July 13, 2008 By: eileen Category: techie geek stuff No Comments →

Apple Cancels All iPhone 3G Orders, Releases iBrick 3G

It’s a sad day at Chez O’Shea….

July 13, 2008 By: eileen Category: IMHO, techie geek stuff No Comments →

The iPhone 3G has been out since Friday, and we still haven’t been able to even touch one, much less buy one. The at&t stores have been sold out within 15 minutes of opening since the Friday launch, and the wait at the Apple Store is a couple of hours.

:-(

I decided to spend the remainder of my tax stimulus check upgrading, but the challenge will clearly be to actually find a store that has them in stock and where I won’t go grey(er) waiting. *sigh* I actually may do alright in this upgrade. If I can sell my iPhone 2G for $200 on craigslist, I’ll pretty much break even.

In the meantime, I’ll have to settle for playing around with the iPhone 2.0 software and third party apps. My fave downloads so far (all free):

  • Pandora (Internet radio player)
  • Currency (currency converter)
  • Light (turn your iPhone into a flashlight for a few seconds)
  • Twitterific (easy to send tweets)
  • Box Office (find movies playing in your area)
  • Hotels.com (find hotels & book rooms in your area - wherever that is)

The apps all work well, but I have noticed that they drain my iPhone’s battery. Since I have this enforced wait to satisfy my iPhone fix, I am now leaning toward a 16GB in white (you can only get white in the 16GB size). It’s dumb, but the white one will show a lot fewer fingerprints, etc, than the black.

Argh! All of this talk has made me think maybe I will go stand in that three hour long line at the Apple Store after all…

Happy birthday, iPhone!

June 26, 2008 By: eileen Category: techie geek stuff No Comments →

The iPhone is one year old today! Happy birthday, little buddy!

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