Everything’s going wonderfully thus far at 19 weeks in. Our due date is May 2. Have a look-see at our 18-week ultrasound video, below–don’t look to closely if don’t want to know yet whether it’s a boy or a girl! (If you do want to know and can’t tell from the video, click the “Read more” link below).
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I’ve been watching for this one for a while now. I might have scraped together $50 for this thing if it were cool enough to consolidate my keys into a slim, non-jingling package and also “learn” the signals for my car’s keyless entry. But no, this is just a pack-of-gum sized metal box that your keys slide in and out of (I’d still have to carry the keyless entry fob around) and it’s (ahem) $295.
Unnecessary Toys: Slick Keyport Keyfob Shipping Now, Still Way Too Expensive
I’m slowly trying to move our calendar from a paper calendar on the kitchen wall to Google Calendar. Now that I’ve got things like due dates for our bills and appointments set up I’d like the information to be synced to my iPhone… but of course there’s no way to do it natively. Going directly to my Google Calendar page in Safari on the iPhone is less than ideal as well.
The best solution would be a service that could sync my Google Calendar to my iPhone over-the-air in near real time, without having to manually sync my iPhone to my MacBook. That solution will hopefully come from GooSync, who is set to roll out an over-the-air sync solution in the first quarter of 2008.
In the meantime, I’ve started using an application called gSync to sync my Google Calendar with the Mac’s iCal application. The iPhone syncs natively to iCal every time it connects to iTunes, so this two-step process will ensure that events I create on the iPhone also end up in Google Calendar and events I create in Google Calendar show up on my iPhone.
 As any Mac user is painfully aware, there are still a lot of websites that don’t display properly or whose features don’t work unless you visit the site on a Windows PC running Microsoft Internet Explorer. Thankfully these types of sites seem to be dwindling in number, probably owing largely to Firefox’s growing market share, but as long as they persist Mac users have to find workarounds. I usually just click over to Parallels and fire up Windows when I need to access such a site. But a much quicker and less resource-intensive method has now appeared in the form of ies4osx, a simple installer that allows Internet Explorer to run inside X11 using WINE. This is virtually transparent to the user, however–you get an Internet Explorer icon in your Applications folder, and you just open it anytime you need to use IE.
“AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson confirmed that the 3G version of the iPhone would be made available ‘next year’.”
I haven’t been all that displeased with the slower EDGE speeds on my iPhone, and there are some other things I’d like to see added first (over-the-air calendar and address book syncing would be one of several things that should and I think will be added to current iPhones via software updates, especially once the platform is officially open to third-party development starting in Februrary). But 3G would be a great upgrade, especially if I could tether it to my MacBook and use it as a 3G wireless modem–in which case I’d give serious thought to upgrading.
I just discovered Mvelopes, and I may have finally found what I’m looking for in the area of budgeting and financial management. read more…
I haven’t written much lately, but boy howdy am I enjoying my new iPhone.
A telemarketer from Sprint just called me, very “excited” about how much money we can save by converting our Nextel service to Sprint. Sounds great, I look good when I save the company money. As we were hanging up, she signed off by saying “Thank you, baby.”
I’m sure she just said it out of force of habit since she probably always calls her husband or kids that, but I couldn’t help but snicker after I hung up. Not that I’m any better, I’ve had to stop myself from calling my coworkers “hon” before.
Having a secondary DNS server is only worthwhile if client machines are configured to use it if primary DNS goes down.
The same folks who created the infamous “Darth Vader calls the Emperor” sketch (as well as plenty of other hilariousstuff–just search for “Robot Chicken” on YouTube) have now done an entire 30-minute Star Wars special:Star Wars: Robot ChickenIt premieres on June 17 on Cartoon Network. My TiVo is ready.
