We need a new term for the devices many (if not most) of us carry around in our pockets. I have an iPhone, as do the other members of the family. Several times a day, I hear things like, “Has anyone seen my phone?” “There’s an alarm going off on your phone.” “Mom, you just…
I got a new iPhone 4 today. This wasn’t really something I’d planned. My old iPhone was a 3G and it’s battery, at least, was on its last legs. At the hospital yesterday, the battery died after about 2 hours of intermittent use: full charge to no charge in 2 hours. That’s been par for…
I use my iPhone as my alarm clock. I rarely need an alarm clock because I generally wake up when I want to, but I set it as a backup. It has a soft harp sound that won’t wake Kelly and I can have an alarm for weekdays and weekends. Last night I set my…
I checked out Journey to the Center of the Earth from the library and haven’t gotten around to it yet. The other day, I renewed it. This morning, after talking to John, it occurred to me that maybe this is anopportunity for me to give eReader on my iPhone another shot. Turns out the book…
I took at short break at 11 am after wrapping up the Day 2 slide deck (209 slides!) finally! I headed over to the Apple store because after nearly 2 years, I’ve been having some problems with my iPhone (which I never bought Apple Care for). Turns out the problems were caused by a small crack in glass…
I just downloaded this app to my iPhone. It’s called X-Plane and its about the coolest flight simulator I’ve ever seen. The graphics and smoothness of the application are far better on my iPhone than MIcrosoft Flight Simulator ever was on my Windows machine. If you are interested in flight simulators and have an iPhone, this…
We checked the website last night and it said that Pentagon City Apple store would have more iPhones this morning. We were there just before 9 AM. There was a short line to wait in, but everything went quickly and smoothly. The net result is that Kelly is now the proud owner of an iPhone…
Since I mentioned upgrading my iPhone to the 2.0 software today, I should also mention that I downloaded the eReader application for the phone. I have always been on the fence about eBooks, not for any particular reason other than I like turning pages and having the book in my hand. But even with all…
I read in some reviews of the new iPhone that people wouldn’t be flooding Apple stores the same way they did for the original phone more than a year ago. I don’t know why the reviewers thought this would be so, but they were definitely wrong about it. The picture to the right was taken…
We put on our haunted house at work this afternoon and it turned out really, really well. There were 3 “tour guides” that would lead groups of 5 through the house. In my role as a lurker (dressed all in black and with a scary Halloween mask–pictures to come), I would pick a person in…
After having my iPhone for a month, I realized that I needed to upgrade my plan with AT&T. I changed to the $59/month package which gives me 900 anytime rollover minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, and unlimited mobile-to-mobile. That will take effect on my next billing cycle (October 5). I also changed my data packaged…
If you haven’t already heard (I’ve had 5 people tell me in the space of 5 minutes), Apple has announced a refund of $100 to all purchasers of 8 GB iPhones prior to yesterday’s price slashing. The refund will be in the form of a store credit, but hey, that works for me. It’s nice…