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Favorite iPhone apps

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

These are the apps that people may not know about, and/or are the ones I consider to be “best in class” at what they do.

  • WhatsOn – TV Listings. Allows you to set up various locations, configuring the channels shown in each,and allows you to set shows as favorites so you get a nice list of what’s airing. Makes it really easy to find the channel number.
  • Paper Toss – Free game where you throw a wadded up paper into an office waste basket. watch out, because there’s a small fan that’s will blow the paper in one or direction or the other. They also make
  • Ragdoll Blast – puzzle game where you blast ragdolls out of a cannon trying to hit a target, but there are obstacles in the way, such as walls, or sticks that need to be blasted out of the way.
  • Tweetie is my favorite twitter app, but I’m checking out TweetDeck’s iPhone version. it has the concept of “columns” that you swipe left or right to get to, and the columns can be your timeline, DMs, mentions, or searches.
  • iTrans NJT Straightforward train schedules for NJ Transit.
  • Crosswords – Guess. :) Best interface and downloading of puzzles
  • Now Playing – Movie times, with Netflix if you want it. Seems comprehensive but I use…
  • iPhlix Netflix management. Multiple queues, and instead of loading a whole queue, it offers to load 25 at a time. Also lets you default to Search view for quick searching.
  • MovieStar – Did you know there’s a IMDb app? I didn’t know until about a week ago. it’s not official but it’s pretty good.

Holy ship(ping)!

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Gee, I wonder which option to take:
Next Day Air Early A.M. 8:00 A.M. Tuesday, 11/25/2008 77.87

Next Day Air 10:30 A.M. Tuesday, 11/25/2008 41.25

Next Day Air Saver 3:00 P.M. Tuesday, 11/25/2008 35.40

Ground Service End of Day Tuesday, 11/25/2008 5.96

Universal knowledge

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

So, I’m in the Apple Store last weekend, and I’m being rung up at the back counter (Genius Bar, I guess). Here’s the scene (each number represents an employee):

1                        2
=============
3                         Me

3 walks up to 1 and asks him something. He doesn’t know so he looks it up, and can’t find it, and asks 2 the same question. 2 takes a guess (”It runs on Mac and PC, I think”)…..

Me: What was the question?
2: What does the Universal symbol mean?
Me, to 2: It runs on Intel and PPCs.
2, aloud: He knows it…. say it again.
Me to 3,1, and customer: It means it runs on both Intel Macs and PowerPC Macs.
3: You should work here.

Little did they know….

iPhone 3G pseudosmarts

Monday, July 14th, 2008

On my new iPhone, I noticed that many podcasts episodes were missing the first words. It seems that the phone is trying to intelligently remove words that appear at the beginning of multiple episodes to conserve screen space used. Makes sense on TWiT:

But no so much on Best Week Ever:

Fantastic policy

Friday, May 30th, 2008

I called PF Changs at about 5:15 to make a reservation for 6pm:

PFC: I’m sorry, but we need 2 hours notice. however, just come in and we’ll try to get you seated as soon as possible.

Wow, I’m so glad that PF Chang’s has stepped up and incorporated this new and novel concept in restaurant management.

Avoid hiring unlucky people

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

There’s a quote from The Office that cracks me up everytime I think about and I just have to share it here, because it’s too long to fit as an AIM status message.

“Avoid hiring unlucky people. Throw half of the CVs you get into the bin”

[If you google part of the phrase, you'll get a bunch of hits that show it in a list of advice for various people, so I'm not sure who first said it.]

Flunkin’ donuts

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Why is it so frustrating just ordering something at sandwich a or donut joint? I had this brief exchange today:

Me: #6. [omelette on a croissant with coffee]
DD employee #1:
Me: #6….exactly as it is.
DD employee #2: any coffee?

If I order a #6, I shouldn’t have to explain anything except the size and contents of my coffee (not the existence of said coffee) plus . Same with Subways/Blimpies… some executive chef at Subway headquarters put together these menu items with a certain set of ingredients. When I order one, I am trusting their judgement, and the employee should trust mine that the sandwich is what I want. All the extra ingredients are right in front of me behind glass- I know they’re there and available to me if I want them!

On a more amusing note, DD had an employee whose name is both religious and patriotic: Jesusa

Captain Obvious

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

At my old job, we used to jokingly make up obvious-sounding solutions for customer issues. for instance, if someone says they couldn’t double-tap a field, we would ask each other if perhaps they had DoubleTapDisableHack installed….or we would say we left CrashWindows set to “true”.

::flashback ends::

Earlier today I had discovered that my profile manager on my 8525 was setting the volume to 100% duringa phone calls. I changed this to “Leave unchanged” so that the volume is not affected when switching to this profile. Shortly after, I remarked to a former co-worker via IM:


2:56:05 PM joshforman: mental to do list: find out why my phone vibrates when a call connects

At dinner I was flipping thru the prefs when I discovered this entry:


Vibrate when outgoing call is connected

I OMGLOLWTF’ed.

That’s Weird

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

The day before I embarked on another uncling voyage to Virginia, my dad told me Weird Al was going to be in Atlantic City (Showboat House of Blues) that night, so I got a ticket and went down to see him.
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Gone phishin’

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Jeez, these email scam guys don’t even try anymore:

To securely confirm your Amazon information please click on the link bellow:

http://nat.key-ware.com.tw/index.html