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Post-Coital iPhone

Sunday, July 1, 2007

# Guilherme at Zo'C - Manage all your email accounts with Gmail - I've been doing this for quite a while now. If you have multiple email accounts, you can forward them all to one Gmail account, and set up Gmail to make the return address on replied-to mail the same as your address to which it was sent. Step-by-step instructions. [lifehacker]

# John Gruber's Daring Fireball - iPhone First Impressions - what's right and wrong with the iPhone after a short time playing with it: booting, activation, user interface, scrolling, rotation, brightness, mail, safari, typing, youtube, wi-fi, earbud remote, calendar, to-dos, switching apps, notes, no clipboard, email as de facto clipboard, web page file pickers, crash logs. [daringfireball]

Overall day one impression: the iPhone is 95 percent amazing, 5 percent maddening. I'm just blown away by how nice it is -- very thoughtful UI design and outstanding engineering. It is very fun.

My short list of features I'd like to see:

Spotlight, or some kind of global search
Copy & Paste
"Add to contacts" from Google Maps business address page
Auto-zooming of web pages that will fit. Now, you need to put <meta name="viewport" content="width=320"> in the <head> section of the web page to make it not appear with tiny text.

# Apple - iPhone User Guide (PDF) is a pretty complete manual for your iPhone. Probably not as fun as David Pogue's iPhone: The Missing Manual will likely be, but available now, and free. [macnn]

# Karelia - Amaphone is an iPhone interface to Amazon.com. Works for me. [macminute]

Amaphone

# Dave Caolo at The Unofficial Apple Blog - Give Twitter that "iPhone feel" - If you use Twitter, and you have an iPhone, you might be interested in Hahlo, an iPhone interface to Twitter. [tuaw]

# Gizmodo Top Five iPhone Apps of the Moment - six actually: iPhone AIM Chat (publictivity.com/iPhoneChat) (intermittent service due possibly to AIM throttling connections from their server), The Gas Finder App (gas.app), OneTrip shopping list (onetrip.org), Digg API iPhone Interface (davidcann.com/digg), iChess (ec2-72-44-51-230.z-1.compute-1.amazonaws.com/ichess.html), and LivePhone (thornemelcher.com/iphone/livephone). iPhone Application List has lots more.

That iChess URL is madenning to type on the iPhone, so I created a trampoline at imacpr0n.com/ichess.html. Go there and it will redirect to the iChess page. Some people haven't learned the utility of short URLs. Also, iChess points out the slowness of the iPhone's processor. Moves that take 1 second on my iMac take 30 seconds on my iPhone, and make the machine very slow to respond to finger taps. [gizmodo]

# Eric Butterfield at PC World - How Tough Is the iPhone? - pretty tough. Survived jingling around with keys, even an intentional scratching attempt. Not a mark after dropping on a rug or linoleum. Scratches in the metal rim after repeated drops from head height on concrete. Article contains link to video. [macdailynews]

PC World's conclusion: There's no need to coddle this sexy little device.

# Dan Lurie at The Unofficial Apple Weblog - Submit Your iPhone Bugs to Apple - if you're an Apple Developer Connection (ADC) member, you can submit iPhone bugs and feature requests at bugreport.apple.com. I've asked for Spotlight and an "Add to contacts" button on the Google Maps contact info screen. [tuaw]

# iFixit - iPhone Disassembly - from the box to the parts, iFixit shows the whole process. The processor is a "Sumsung manufactured Apple ARM" chip. Apple used a version of the ARM processor in the Newton, with the recommendation of The Apple Cambridge Research Lab (1989-1995), where I worked at the time.

# Randall Bennet for WirelessInfo.com at YouTube - iPhone First Unboxing - follows a guy from the door of the Apple Store into his apartment. Posted minutes after the 6pm store opening. Links to plenty more unboxing videos on the YouTube page. [cult]