Twitter-spiracy

Starting to think that Twitter is sabotaging fixing Twitter IM because they're getting kick-backs from the carriers.

Moons over Marin

Every month during the full moon, the Point Bonita lighthouse is open to the public until 10pm, much later than the usual 3:30 pm, so you can experience both the sunset over the water and the moonrise over the City. It's hard to take a bad picture. Flickr set available here.

MW's photo of the moon over the bridge is gorgeous.

Wherefore art thou RSS? Sidekick 3 vs iPhone

RSS (along with IM) has to be the killer app for mobile. And yet neither of my fancy tech phones has an RSS reader. WTF??

I may be one of those rare birds that currently owns both a Sidekick 3 and an iPhone. The circumstances around this are convoluted, but it gives me a unique perspective on how the two phones are different and how they are the same.

I have lots to say about this in later posts, but only a minute now. So here's my rant on the list of high priority features that I sorely need on the iPhone in order to keep it.

- Better email management. More specifically, a way to delete multiple emails at once or purge the whole mailbox. I get hundreds of emails a day and deleting every spam one by one is tedious. Having to do it with two clicks or more is downright mindnumbing. Makes me want to throw that gorgeous screen into the street.
- RSS (see above). Snippets of news? Quick reading that's easy to consume and carry around? Nah. I wouldn't want that on a mobile device. < / sarcasm >
- IM (see above.) I think this is the best app on the Sidekick--which supports YIM, IM and MSN by the way and has the best keyboard in the business--and the lack of even an iChat client is surprising. I have to think it will be remedied asap.

Not a requirement, but a duh: More ringtones on the iPhone! My music as ringtones! It's a music player people.

Finally, my iPhone crashes. A lot. It fails gracefully, just going back to the main screen, so that I almost didn't notice until it started happening within 30 seconds of starting any application besides phone. I've done a hard restart but it still happens, if a little less often. Seems to be particularly unhappy with resizing browser and email. (FYI folks--hard restart is hold the home button and the sleep button until the apple screen comes up.)

It's a good thing this thing is so effing beautiful.

Oh and T-Mobile? Are you listening? Let me repeat again--RSS! Say it back with me--RSS.

More later.

UPDATE: It was just pointed out to me that my post might be biased and that besides saying how pretty it is (have I said how pretty it is?? :) I didn't say anything else good about the iPhone. Believe me, there are things great about it. But I was just checking out Gavin's post on the activation process and wanted to say this. It truly was the best cell phone buying experience EVER. Including the 30+ minute wait in line. Activation over the Web was simple, clean and (for me) instantaneous. I put in my AT&T number + password and my iTunes password and boom. It just worked.

If I have my way I am never going to buy a phone from a cell phone store again. Never.

Blogging the iLine from my Sidekick 3

Day 4 of iPhone mania. The iPhone store San Francisco opens at 9am for the faithful. I decide to try my luck even though the line is nearly a block long and I have a conference call at 10am…

----------------------- 9:04 am -----------------------
colornoun: Guy at the end of iphone line has hanso foundation shirt on
mw: Sweet!
mw: Dork
colornoun: Totally
colornoun: In the line, but only waiting until 930
mw: Heheh
colornoun: :)
colornoun: Already 10 more peeps behind me
colornoun: Don't these peeps have jobs?
mw: I knew it!
mw: Good luck
mw: Is line around block?
mw: Yow!
mw: Yeh! Wtf!
colornoun: Nah. They let about 40 in already so I in front of Benetton
mw: Good good
----------------------- 9:14 am -----------------------
colornoun: Nice! Hanso guy just got out of line. One less between me and iphone
mw: Coo
mw: He couldn't afford it anyway
mw: How far now?
colornoun: Still in front of benetton. About 2 feet farther
colornoun: Ohh moving!
colornoun: Now in front of aix
mw: Ooh so close
colornoun: Some guy just walked by and recognized someone in the line and said he already had one. Everyone in the line was prolly thinking "dick!"
mw: Heh you blogging that?
colornoun: duh
colornoun: Some guy just walked by and handed me a sticker for some iphone app
colornoun: Mens warehouse!
mw: Oh excellent
mw: 10am call probably isn't actually that important anyhow
colornoun: Ha
colornoun: Just outside door!
colornoun: Sounds like 8G gone :(
----------------------- 9:24 am -----------------------
colornoun: Should I hold out?
mw: oooh. dilemma!
mw: Tough call, get it now or hold out
colornoun: I know
mw: $100 cheaper, but same capacity as your nano
mw: Who knows when 8gb avail. I'm guessing you'll get it
mw: But remember, according to guy at at&t 3g comes out today :-p
colornoun: Ha
colornoun: What should I do???
colornoun: Almost inside!
mw: See what return policy is like
mw: You could always get it now.
mw: If you need more space sell it and get 8gb when plentiful
colornoun: Hmm...true
mw: You'll probably be out 50 bucks
colornoun: Argh! Might have 2 bail anyway soon
mw: Oh no!
colornoun: Ack! They're "running low!"
mw: You can cab to office
mw: Or bart
colornoun: Yeah
colornoun: U r enabler!
mw: Thpt
mw: I find solutions!
colornoun: Hee hee
mw: How far!?
colornoun: 3 people outside door!
colornoun: This is killing me!
----------------------- 9:34 am -----------------------
mw: Heh you could get last one!
colornoun: Inside!
mw: Ooh!
mw: Sweet rarified jobsian air!
colornoun: Thpt!
----------------------- 9:39 am -----------------------
colornoun: @ register!
mw: Ooh, so many fanboys want to be you now
----------------------- 9:43 am -----------------------
colornoun: Got it!
colornoun: 17 min to conference call!
mw: Ooh
mw: I touch your blessed multi touch capable fingers
----------------------- 9:52 am -----------------------
colornoun: Ha
colornoun: Ack! Got on wrong muni!
colornoun: All turned around from iphone!
---------------------- 10:02 am ----------------------
colornoun: Made it! iLine to work in less than 62 minutes
colornoun: Client not even on conf call yet
colornoun: phew. :)

Blogged from my trusty Sidekick 3. ☺

UPDATE: Wow. That was an easy setup. I may never buy a phone from a carrier again. Then again, everyone else seems to be thinking the same thing. It's loverly even though EDGE is down and widgets are sad :( SA says that it's like the luke in his x-wing taking out the deathstar of AT&T