Activity for November 12

Review - Paint.NET
2.6 Final (Feb 28, 2006)

Still needs a lot of work!! Only took 45seconds to crash the program.
open a jpg for editing,
click file, edit
viola! crash
Comment - The iTunes App Store at 100,000: Can we stop counting, already?
2.6 Final (Nov 12, 2009 - 4:23 PM)

Personally, I am not impressed with 100k apps! Give me quality; quantity is not a benchmark when that quantity is 90% JUNK.

Juvenile farting applications are the biggest waste of time there ever was. How do these things get approved by the apple gods when other applications (can we say Google here?) that have something to do with real usability are shunned?? 100k only serves to make it impossible to find an application of any value. Is itunes in reality, a social engineering experiment?

The itunes store front end is a horribly designed application that really only serves as a roadblock. Lot's of improvement needed here!

I laid hands on a Droid phone today and have to say it is not the total answer either. Nice screen, lots of apps both built in and available, but the icons are really too small and too close together for even my mid sized fingers. Keyboard is okay, but the Moto Q phones really set the standard for a qwerty keyboard. Micro SD card is a fantastic idea that lets me use the phone for more than a photo and music tote. Common Apple, give me access to some of that 16gb of memory!

So where do we all go from here??

Moto, I am willing to deal with a larger format (read bigger phone) just to improve the actual usability of the thing. I haven't used a belt clip in years, so a phone in a slim case in my pocket is okay.

Apple, give me real applications, Google navigation, etc. Quit protecting those developers (Tom Tom, Navigon, et.al.) and their high priced applications that don’t work as good as the cheaper dedicated hardware solutions and, PLEASE, don’t put up another waste of time worthless app. Better yet, move all of the JUNK off to a simple WEB site, give everyone access to that and seriously update the itunes store front end.

rant, rant, rant
Comment - Facebook for iPhone developer goes from Apple supporter to 'I quit!' in 3 months
2.6 Final (Nov 12, 2009 - 10:11 AM)

You must have a very small circle of iphone gushing friends!

I have not met you, but you can certainly count me in as an iphone hater!

I'm leaving apple and ATT the moment my contract is up (maybe even earlier if the both of them keep irritating me). From lousy ATT customer service, lousy ATT wireless coverage to ARROGANT apple 'genius's' I am simply FED UP!

Gimme an Android, PLEASE!
Comment - Now, even Apple's mouse is multi-touch
2.6 Final (Oct 22, 2009 - 11:46 AM)

Geez, already have a touchpad on the Vista/Mac laptop, mayhaps the Apple genius' think I now need two touchpads.
Comment - Why a Verizon iPhone wouldn't work (for Verizon)
2.6 Final (Oct 12, 2009 - 9:58 AM)

Realistically, this thing is a buggy data hawg that is seriously turning into an ATT albatross! Everyone else (Verizon, et al) is happy to watch ATT struggle.
Hell, the damn thing wouldn't work for any provider. The genius' at Apple just admitted that s/w ver 3.1 was loaded with bugs. Oops, mayhaps they should be called 'Homers' because they just issued a big 'DOH' (s/w 3.2 and, the bugs are still popping up).
But, this is not the iPhone/Apple/ATT slam forum. (I think)
Comment - iPhone's global success is more marketing myth than reality
2.6 Final (Oct 8, 2009 - 4:27 PM)

iPhone better??? Better than what??? The Apple Geniuses just released another iphone s/w update. Ver 3.2 is advertised to fix all the bugs introduced in 3.1. Damn, I'm sure glad I bought one of these things! If only I could keep it running with out rebooting or restoring on a daily/weekly basis. Worse than Windows 3.1!