A few months back I listed my reasons for not getting an iPhone. After talking with friends *cough*dave*cough*, I pared down my true deal-breaker objections to two items: 1) locked to at&t with a two year contract, and 2) no third-party apps. None of that widget crap, I wanted real programs. Of course, [...]
A few days ago I helped my brother in-law recover his “lost” addressbook. It disappeared from his Mac and he sync’ed his palm assuming that the contacts would be put back in place. Not so — instead, the “newer” empty addressbook overwrote the palm. We were able to recover the address book [...]
Almost forgot. We won. Fun!
The hype over the iPhone is almost enough to make me hate it just because of that. And yet, it sounds like it has a number of great features. Sadly, there’s on way I could even consider one until the following are fixed:
Developers, developers, developers — “Letting” developers make web-based applications? Lame! Most of the [...]
So here’s the knock-down bout between Thunderbird and Mail.app. When I switched, I tried to give every native application a fair trial (though I knew there was no way Safari would be able to match the functionality of my ridiculously plugin laden Firefox setup) over what I was used to. The mail client of choice [...]