What percentage of attempts at doing a thing must be failures until that thing is deemed unreliable by a user and abandoned for another more effective method? I don’t know the answer, but whatever it is, Siri has passed it. Siri’s great when it works, it just so seldom does. The most common thing I [...]
There are two things that the controversy surrounding Siri’s apparent stance on abortion demonstrates. Siri is a believable and convincing enough piece of software to make people react to it as though it is a real person, with real thoughts and opinions. Most people either just have no clue how technology works, or no interest [...]
I recently mentioned a bug in the Photos app in iOS 5. What was happening to me was this: Open Camera app. Take photos. Look at Camera Roll from Camera app and verify that photos are there. Quit Camera app. Open Photos app. Navigate to Camera Roll. Photos app crashes. Open it again, and navigate [...]
So I’ve had my Verizon iPhone 4S for a few weeks now, and I thought I’d let you know how it’s been going. The Phone In many regards, this is the same phone I had a few weeks ago. The software is the same, the data is the same, most things are the same. And [...]
Here are a bunch of little things I’ve noticed, worthy of sharing but not big enough for their own post. A Lion Correction I had originally reported that one of my favorite new Lion features was that Quicklook stayed active even when switching away from the Finder to another app. This apparently only happens on [...]
I’ll be honest: I wish I could stay with AT&T. I just pre-ordered an iPhone 4S. From Verizon. And while I’m excited to get the new phone, and thrilled at the prospect of improved call quality and coverage, I do feel a pang of regret at having to leave AT&T. I switched to AT&T when [...]
Just wanted to share some of my initial reactions to Apple’s recent announcements at WWDC 2011. iCloud First off, iCloud. iCloud is really the engine behind the bulk of this year’s significant announcements. As I see it, iCloud provides centralized storage and services that are primarily aimed at managing all your various devices — your [...]
A tiny Yay! today for the iPhone coming to Verizon. Whether you switch or stay with AT&T, this is good news for iPhone users. We finally have a choice of carriers, and that means competition. And that means that things get better faster. And so, a tiny Yay!
UPDATE 5/1/11: If you’ve been having trouble syncing multiple calendars to your iPhone, it’s because Google has added an extra step to the process. I’ve added a bit about Google’s new required iPhone sync utility to the Set Up Your iPhone section for folks with multiple calendars. As always, happy syncing! I keep getting comments [...]
In my last post I talked about using Apple’s MobileMe to mimic the functionality of Dropbox, and discussed it as a possible replacement for the file syncing service should I ever need more space than the free Dropbox offers. In the end, both services came up wanting to some extent. So I’ve continued to poke [...]