Happy Birthday Cori!!!
Birth Announcement - Welcome Jackson Rhys Hefler
Born at 10am. Ain't he a cutie?
No Movie Tonight
Tuesday is the raindate, but the park as very poor drainage, so we won't be there either. A shame to miss The Sting, but what can you do. Have a good week everyone.
Dancing inmates.
I don't have much to say about this, other than, WOW!
IMAP mail works right on iPhone
One of the issues that I mentioned earlier was that
the iPhone didn't access the subfolders of my inbox
on my IMAP mail server. It turns out that there is a
way to fix this.
In the mail settings, after clicking (tapping?) on
the account in question, there is an advanced option
where I needed to put in "INBOX" as my IMAP prefix.
Works perfectly. Thanks to superg on
MacOSXHints.com
for this tip.
Monday night movies going strong. (Only a little about the iPhone here...)
Last night was Paper Moon at Bryant Park. It was a
great time. Here are a few pics taken from the
iPhone. More pics
here...
Incidentally,
under heavy usage in the park, the iPhone went from
full charge to 20% battery warning in about 5 hours.
News appearance.
Since I was part of the big iPhone release on Friday,
I was interviewed a few times. Some family and
friends spotted me on NBC news on Friday Night and
then there was this...
iPhones Arrive
Correction: Yet another iPhone post.
It seems like the iPhone implementation is better
than I thought. I just had a bad audio file that was
distorting the sound. It's still a little faster than
the original iPod's speeded up setting, enough that
you can tell it's speeded up, but it's not distorted.
Also, the iPhone doesn't like smartplaylists as much
as the iPod did. On my iPod, I had a playlist of
"unheard audiobooks" that items would disappear from
as I listened to them. On the iPhone, they don't
disappear until after a sync.
These are minor points. Don't get me wrong. The
iPhone is the greatest piece of technology I have
ever owned, and i love it. But I still like to
comment on the issues that I find.
More on iPhone.
Some other things I have noticed.
1. There is no search feature. If you want to find a
contact, you have to scroll to them. If you want to
call your friend, JJ, for example, you better
remember that his real name is actually Sam (JJ)
Smith before you try, cause there is no way to find
JJ. Even if you put JJ into the Nickname field, the
autofill addresses of SMS don't find it.
2. While the iPhone does support speeded up playback
of Audiobooks, the implementation is flawed. On the
iPod, the speeded up playback sounded perfect. If you
didn't know it was speeded up, you would just think
the speakers were speaking quickly. The iPhone's
faster setting plays back the sound a little faster
than the iPod's on the same setting, but the sound is
very distorted. Still understandable, but not very
pleasant. I'll try to sample some sounds in the next
few days, to illustrate.