Blog from the Loft

Times article on Tuesday headline “Google vs iPhone: Is Steve Jobs Reliving Past Mistakes” puts forward that because Andriod is open, and iPhone is closed, Apple is going to loose the smartphone platform just like they “lost” the PC platform. Article sounds convincing until you realized that there is a very mature and reasonably open [...]

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Six weeks from day zero. I picked up my iPhone 3G, and the little metal stud falls off. I wondered about the design of this switch before, it is pretty to look at, but sliding in a circular path probably put a lots of strain on it. I use this switch probably on average four [...]

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Look at my post way back in July here. A month later and CNET is talking about it?

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I meant to blog about this for a long time. Things.app is, IMHO, the best GTD app for the Mac. I have been using the beta for a very long time. In fact my GTD system is on it. When the iPhone 3G is announced, the folks at CulturedCode started working on a version specifically [...]

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This has been a very Apple centric month. I finally upgraded my very first mac, a pre-Aluminium iMac from Tiger to Leopard. The upgrade process was very easy. The next morning, I discovered that my new iPhone is no longer recognized by iTunes ! It worked before the upgrade.
The problem only exists with iTunes. When [...]

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My iPhone just crashed. I clicked on the iTunes Remote app, the phone went to the “silver apple” screen, which I think is the restart screen. It stayed there for a very long time. I ended up doing the reset sequence — holding down the sleep/wake and the home buttons for 10 seconds or more, [...]

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Day 5 using the new iPhone. I love it. I thought about it before using the verb “love”. It is fun to use. it works. It’s sexy. I find myself using it instead of the laptop (which is already on) to check emails, for example. It works and feel better than the Treo. Typing is [...]

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