Posts Tagged → iphone
iPhone iNnoyances – pt. 2 – Rainy Sunday Edition
Hello.
I’m an iPhone.
I’m outside in the fresh air.
It’s raining, because it’s autumn and I’m in the UK.
Where it rains. Quite alot.
Especially in October.
Actually, scratch that, for most of the year.
I was designed in California where it only rains about twice a year. Look how dry it is there!
Me and Ma in the Panamints, CA
I am useless when I’m wet.
Touchscreens and water don’t play nice together.
Twestival Review
Last night was the inaugural Harvest Twestival; organised perfectly by Amanda and Ben and sponsored, in part, by us.
It was the best meetup event I’ve been to for a long time. If not the best night out for ages.
The London Twitter crowd are a genuinely lovely mix of people. A vibrant mix of creatives, webby types, designers, bloggers, developers, musicians, podcasters, PR folk and everything inbetween. We talked about music, user experience, Twitter, iPhones, booze, photography, becoming a MySpace band. Everything.
We met those we’ve followed for ages and got to put faces to usernames. I met friends of friends who I didn’t even know were on Twitter to start with. What more could you want from an event?
All in all it was a brilliant chance to catch up with old friends and acquaintanc
es, as well as a perfect chance to make new friendships and tap into the collective wisdom of our local Twitter scene.
We’re anticipating the next one. No pressure guys!
iPhone iNnoyances – pt. 1 – Where’s my video app at?
The iPod Touch 1G was a shortlived little beast.
I’m sure many folks bought one, like I did, to tide over until the inevitable release of the iPhone 3G. I think we had a rocky nine months together. Residual value dropped pretty quickly. The cost-per-use ratio was not particularly great. The back scratched up quicker than anything, ever.
Since getting StormTrooperPhone (my white 3G), there’s been one small and unaddressed annoyance. And it’s the Video app.
On the Touch, Video is handled by it’s very own application. It’s great for finding all your content in one place.
The real-world use is something like:
- listen to an album for a bit
- start watching a podcast when you’re on the tube
- go back to the album you were listening to when you change stations
- start watching podcast again from where you left off
- rinse and repeat
Trouble is, the 3G has totally hampered this workflow. The video app is tucked away in the recesses of the whole iPod app. So you can’t pause music to watch video. This annoys me every day since the media integration of the two has gone backwards.
Now it works like this:
- create awesome playlist with Genius
- find a few minutes to watch Mahalo Daily
- watch it
- try to go back to playlist. It’s gone.
- weep
I just want my Video app back.
