Well, at least in the “documents and data” arena.
I’m sure the iWork apps on the Mac will eventually have iCloud built-in like their iOS cousins do. Until then, Dropbox is still the way to go for many, including myself.
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What I’m Reading This Month
Since buying my Kindle, I have to admit that I’ve done a lot more reading. Here’s what’s been on my e-ink display this month:
- The Right Stuff by Thomas Wolfe looks at the build-up to NASA’s Mercury project, through the eyes of the original seven astronauts. It’s an excellent, excellent read for any nerd.
- Apollo by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox chronicles the Apollo space program. While the book dives fairly deep in to the politics inside and outside of NASA in the 1960s, it’s not at all boring. The names that history has forgotten live on in this book.
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl retells the author’s time spent in Auschwitz and other concentration camps during World War II. It discusses the psychiatric toll that living without a reason to live takes on someone. I’ve been reading the paperback off and on for months, and have yet to finish it. It is intense.
Editor’s Note: As always, links from 512 Pixels to Amazon are done as affiliate links. Kindle purchases aren’t eligible for Amazon’s affiliate program, so I’ve linked to the paperback versions above.
‘Rival the Saturn V’
The Fifty Percent
While the Occupy Wall Street guys have a point1, the fact that half of Congress’ members are millionaires is a bigger problem, in my opinion. I’m not sure how these people can accurately represent the middle class, let alone the nation’s poorest members.
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No matter how bad they are at getting that point across. ↩︎
‘Tremendous, Tremendous Demand’
The free iPhone 3GS is doing very well on AT&T.
Steve Jobs Biography Out Next Week
Order it from Amazon via this link and I get a kickback.
I ordered the hardcover version.
The S Stands for Psychosis
Apple has released the first TV ad for the iPhone 4S:
The company isn’t helping me with a little problem I’ve developed.
I keep trying to talk to my iPhone 4. I’ve caught myself trying to set reminders several times.
Maybe it is because I’ve spent a large amount of time playing with a coworker’s 4S. Maybe it is because my feed reader is full of 4S-related stories. Maybe it is because Siri seems like such a natural way to interact with a phone.
Apple Celebrates Steve
On that iPhone 4S/C Sprire Thing
Christina Bonnington over at Ars:
The C Spire announcement comes as a surprise to most Apple enthusiasts, as C Spire isn’t as well known as other national carriers, such as T-Mobile, or even Cricket Wireless. But maybe all the surprise stems from a likelihood that most Apple watchers are concentrated in large, metropolitan markets.
C Spire is pretty big here in Memphis. I know several people who are excited about this move. While C Spire is small, I think it will sell a ton of iPhones to its customers.1
The Tragic N9
The N9 is flawed and doomed, but you have to understand, I don’t care. The universal experience of using this phone is one of delight and desire. Yes, it can get bamboozled and freeze up, and no, you won’t be finding an avalanche of awesome new apps for it, but those downsides fade in comparison to the abundance of positives.
It’s a shame the N9 is dead in the water. It really is.
Siri, Let me Hack This iPhone
I borrowed a passcode-locked iPhone 4S from a colleague here at Sophos and, with his permission, was able to write an email, and send a text message. If I had wanted to I could have meddled with his calendar appointments too.
All without having to enter the passcode. I’m sure you can imagine some of the ways this could potentially be abused.
Of course, this can be changed with a simple setting. I’m glad Cluley points this out, but I could do without the side order of passive-aggressive sauce1:
Pixel Blocks Wallpaper
I’ve gotten a ton of emails asking where I got my iPhone wallpaper. Well, here’s the source!