Monthly Archives: August 2007 - Page 3

The Devil worshippers of Iraq

Posted by on August 21, 2007 No comments

Came across a very interesting article about “devil worshippers” in Iraq. I consider myself a student of religions, and this is a group I hadn’t ever looked into. I’ve copied some interesting bits from the article after the cut, added my own thoughts, and some links to Wikipedia on some of the terms.

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Bookmarks for 2007-08-21

Posted by on August 20, 2007 No comments

Robot Rumble!

Posted by on August 20, 2007 7 comments

Further proof that I am living on the wrong coast.

Robot Rumble

Why doesn’t ANYTHING cool happen in DC? Every other day in San Francisco, someone is riding a bike through the streets naked, or zombies are invading Apple stores, and now they’ve got ROBOT BATTLES!?!

I’m so jealous.

Bookmarks for 08-19-2007

Posted by on August 18, 2007 No comments

10 Reasonable iPhone Wishes

Posted by on August 16, 2007 2 comments

So after just over a month with my iPhone, I have a list of things which I would like to see pushed as a software/firmware update to the phone. As far as I know, none of these would require hardware changes.

  1. Highlight, Copy & Paste. I’m not entirely sure why this was left out in the first place.
  2. Landscape Mode in SMS and Email Applications. Again, not sure why this was left out.
  3. Video Support. Let me take short videos with sound. Add a button to automatically upload to YouTube and/or my .Mac Web Gallery.
  4. MMS. No reason why a camera phone shouldn’t be able to send and receive picture and video messages.
  5. Group Messaging. Sending one message to one person at a time is annoying. Change it.
  6. Bluetooth Auto-Syncing. I would like to be able to sync via bluetooth. With this, I’d like the option to select which things I would like to sync in this manner. Calendar, Address Book, Bookmarks and Mail should be a no-brainer. Syncing the iPod over bluetooth would be pretty maddening, so I’d pass on that. Also, I would like this to work automatically, with both the computer and the iPhone detecting changes on the other. I don’t want to have to push buttons for the basic stuff.
  7. Smarter Google Maps. If I navigate away from from the Google Maps application, don’t send me back to the start of my directions. Remember where I was, and start back there when I tap the Maps icon again.
  8. Smarter Weather & Stocks. In the weather and stock applications, let me select a frequency at which the data will be automatically updated. This will avoid me loading up either application while I’m out of service area and having the data displayed be a day old, or not displayed at all.
  9. Add GPS support via Bluetooth. This will let me carry a small GPS receiver in my pocket and interface with that via the Google Maps application.
  10. Make the Notes sync with something. I am assuming this is coming with Leopard and the new Mail.app, but it is annoying now. If for some reason I have to restore my iPhone, my notes are gone. Not cool.