- Rude cabbie with loud radio, annoying and unhelpful clearfly mgr, and flight delay resulting in switch to puddlehopper with props. Monday. #
- Unexpected benefit of leaving the client site after 930pm: I can watch the fireflies on the lawn glowing #
- “Dirty job but someone had to do it” http://twitpic.com/86hzp #
- Lamp post road has a surprising dearth of lamp posts. Maybe the street name needs another qc pass? #
- @1tb hey cool! Another meatballer is using my photo as a profile pic. And not just any meatballer, but THE meatball! in reply to 1tb #
- 30min drive 2 hotel;get SMS w/music rec;YouTube video;like it; buy on iTunes;tweet about it on way to lobby. Am I a iPhone 3g ad now? #
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- Flight to pha on time? Pinch me, I must be dreaming. #
- Damn! This hotel is nearly perfect. Great fast room service, modern furniture, plenty of outlets.. Then I realize there is no wifi #
- My IPhone 3GS is in the USA - ANCHORAGE,AK, US 06/16/2009 1:48 P.M. ARRIVAL SCAN #
- Writing “iPhone 3GS” feels wierd; I keep thinking of my old Apple ][ GS, which is hardly a paragon of cutting edge technology #
- @krubins are you serious? Cool! #
- @willobrien TrweetDeck is pretty sweet, just wish it had a landscape keyboard for us big thumbed users in reply to willobrien #
- I work with some amazing people: case in point, a fellow first year associate with a MD, MPH and PhD and speaks 5 languages #
- Back in Whitehouse Station where the deer and the antelope play. Literally. #
- @smarcus now, stupid apple and their stupid “lets hold everyone’s phone at the UPS center until Friday” policy.
in reply to smarcus # - @kitiara29 I agree! in reply to kitiara29 #
- Ok, i’m thinking of trying the tethering mod on my iphone.. do i risk bricking my old iphone? #
- this is the 3.0 hidden tether feature.. just tried it, no ill effect so far on my 3g http://www.9to5mac.com/9to5mac-tether-iPhone-hack #
- Tweetdeck for iphone has addicted me to multitasking; oh Apple, why won’t you let me run multiple applications this way? #
- I can’t prove it but I think hamburgers grilled in the rain taste a little more well earned #
- Is on a date that involves brazillian BBQ, a car wash scavenger hunt, and the movie Up in Disney Digital 3D(TM) #
- rainy day for yummy brunch http://yfrog.com/7dugyj #
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- Disclaimer of the day http://yfrog.com/456eqj #
- Dragon boat day on the charles http://yfrog.com/4ulwmj http://maps.google.com/?q=42.367712%2C-71.116798 #
- Good times — http://bit.ly/f2PV #
- Overheard on christian radio: “our travel today is brought to you by the Lord” #
- @jcly Hey cool, you’re using my photo of you as a profile pic! thats a pretty high compliment! in reply to jcly #
- http://www.facebook.com/jgilbert Whoohoo!! “Jeremy” was not available..
# - “now people who could already find us as friends can…” uh, what can they do now that they couldn’t before..?
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- @saadiq somehow I’ve become a powerpoint snob. If I can’t infer an overall message in the first 2 second my eyes glaze over in reply to saadiq #
- Nice day for a walk in Boston. #
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- Cruel delimna: I have to drink warm beer or suffer pain in my tooth. Hmmm. #
- 5e; Bulkhead middle? Continental! You shouldn’t have!
http://bit.ly/Q4wOr #
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- Waiting in line for my official security badge. #
- Three hour car ride with xm radio, has improved my comprehension of Girl Talk’s latest cd #
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- I think all of this rain on the east coast is really starting to get to me #
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The blogosphere has long lamented the lack of background notifications on Apple’s iPhone, but will Apple’s iPhone 3.0 software really be a panacea its been cracked up to be? Sadly current reports suggest the next release will do nothing to fix an inherent limitation that many of us suffer: on the iPhone only one thing can happen at a time. Like an a small child lost in a solipsistic thrall, the iPhone can only download or process information for the currently running application.
For the iPhone, the unwatched pot never boils.
This limitation isn’t merely academic. For instance, if I open a page in Safari and then switch to a new tab, I expect the first tab to continue running and loading the page for me to read later. Instead, once I switch to the new page, the first one stays frozen in time. Or say I fire up NYTimes reader, but then check email before it finishes downloading all its articles; hours later when I’m stuck on an airplane I’ll have nothing to read. Data sharing apps like DataCase and MobileFiles only work when they are active and loaded. Voice recording applications stop recording when you switch to a new application.
Is this an inherent limitation of all mobile devices? My old Treo 650 could instant message and receive email at the same time. My blackberry lets me “Alt Tab” to another application and then return back to the first one. There shouldn’t be any reason why given a well-designed API that NYTimes Mobile can’t download new articles automatically once a day, or why Pandora has to stop playing once I leave the application.
Tags: Apple, iPhone, reactions, technology
- Black sky, and the sound of the airport taxi could be a waterfall on a vast nonspeaking river. #
- Scenes from the road.
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http://twitpic.com/43e8x # - This jobs alternates between the profound and mundane; case in point, today my job is a ms project transcriptionist #
- in a bland hotel room thinking hard about pre merger a&s #
- @minuchawla is in favor of minu blogging! #
- today’s definition of happiness: beer tap in the lobby, MP3 hookup on the alarm clock, and a comfy couch to take my conference call #
- tomorrow’s definition of bliss: home sweet home! #
- Random quote from the field: “EC+2 A&S GL to HR Func Leads” #
- http://tinyurl.com/dgdygs #
- How well done would I like my pizza? Let the chef decide!
http://bit.ly/DB1vz #
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