My thoughts exactly!

Finally someone has written what I’ve been feeling about voice mail for a very long time!

It’s a waste of your time and my time!

I haven’t gotten around to it but I need to change my outgoing VM message to remind my callers that if they need a quick response or need to deliver a piece of information to me, my Blackberry certainly deals with good old fashioned emails/sms messaging just fine.

Consider the fact that Apple went to the trouble of patenting their Visual Voice Mail on the iPhone for that very reason – VM is an archaic pain in the ass. I have to dial, listen to some dumb greeting, perhaps enter a password, listen to some more instructions, memorize a few digits that control each of the different VM systems I use and deal with message in a linear fashion. I’m no iPhone fan, but their Visual VM is plain genius!

The folks at LifeHacker have a great posting on this today:

“It will come as news to most people over 30 that most people under 30 do not leave voicemail messages. Think about it: Voicemail takes a long time to retrieve and it’s almost never earth-shattering, so it’s not worth the time it requires. Microsoft is such a big believer in this that all voicemails you leave at the company go straight to email. And you can do the same if you use eVoice. Young people treat their list of missed calls as a page system. And they call the person back. No extra step for listening to the message.”

iPhone + Newton = ?

It was bound to happen… Apple is close to announcing an iPhone-like tablet device!

From: fiercedeveloper.com

“Roughly a decade after terminating production of its Newton personal digital assistant, Apple is reportedly planning a return to the PDA market, putting the finishing touches on a touch-based device in the tradition of the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Citing sources close to the project, AppleInsider reports that the as-yet-unnamed PDA runs an embedded version of Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard platform–the device is described as an ultra-thin “slate” resembling the iPhone, but at 1.5 times the size and with an approximate 720×480 high-resolution display that spans virtually the entire surface.”

For the love of usability geeks everywhere, please make it a bit more grippable! Curved aluminum edges just don’t cut it in my opinion.

Spotted in NYC

But I think they need to put up a few of them in Cupertino!

bottoms up!

“Digital Beverages” – now those aren’t two words that you’d ever really think of putting together – Till now!

DigitalBeverages is maker of the digital bartender.

Yup….

• Tap-tap (as in: touch-screen)
• Swipe (as in: your credit card)
• Out comes a mixed drink….

No more flagging a bartender down

No more shouting a drink order

No more tippin’

Just good old fashioned Windows at your service at the bar!

iM sure some iPhone hacker will come up with an iPhone version… just you wait!

iPhone envy gets funny!

Pretty funny Nokia E70 vs. iPhone comparison/rant page….

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

My friend Eric summed it up like this:

“That was a cute story. Meanwhile my E70 sits on my desk collecting dust, and I write this from my iPhone.”

po’ man’s iPhone….

1. Download Safari for Win
2. Try a URL like this on your (desktop Safari/browser):
   • http://testiphone.com/?scroll=on&view=ver&url=http://pointatme.com/widgets/BART.wdgt/BART.html
3. You can find lots of iPhone web-apps here: www.iphoneappr.com
   • Any time you see the “Launch App” button copy the URL that it points to….
   • ex: http://pointatme.com/widgets/BART.wdgt/BART.html
4. Append it to this URL: http://testiphone.com/?scroll=on&view=ver&url=<url_here>

Notes:

URL params for the testiphone service:

• url ==> [ URL of app ]
• view ==> [ hor | ver ]
• scroll ==> [ on | off ]

It will work in IE or FF but Safari is the same rendering engine as the iPhone….

Now if I could just figured out how to fit my laptop in my pocket I wouldn’t need an iPhone.

enjoy!

Web 3.0

Web 3.0 = iPhone

How so you ask?

Web 2.0 + mobility(Cupertino flavor) = Web 3.0

Unless you are the almighty Google…. your iPhone apps are Safari based web apps.

Apple has published a Safari/iPhone developer guide

iPhone in the mix (spotting)

Ok, saw this a few days ago and finally gave in….

[ Original article at: perezhilton.com - you'll want to review the photo there first ]

None of the press-pics of the iPhone show the bottom (where the traditional iPods dock) but if you look closely at this zoomed-in version of the above photo …. well it sure looks “iPhone“ to me!

It’s slim, silver and has an iPod-looking connector.