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Sean Sperte loves his iPhone

Sean Sperte’s iPhone review

What Apple’s done with the iPhone can’t be described as anything short of amazing. Nay-sayers who nitpick every quirk and omission are just haters, link-baiting and glamorizing the few negatives. If you take a step back and look at the overall satisfaction among iPhone owners, you cannot deny its success.

Written not because the internet needs it, but because iPhone users love their iPhones.

Sean Sperte loves his iPhone

Miles Levin

Miles Levin lost his battle to cancer yesterday. His battle with cancer helped him look beyond himself and what he said on his weblog is outstanding advice for anyone still breathing –

Dying is not what scares me; it’s dying having had no impact. I know a lot of eyes are watching me suffer; and — win or lose — this is my time for impact.

[Via CNN]

Miles Levin

Apple’s 08-07-07 Announcement

Of all the rumors flying around tomorrow I am hoping for one thing: an upgrade to dot Mac.

That would that be the only product update that would effect me in the near future, and it’s a much needed update for all us .Mac-ers who’ve been shelling out $99 a year for bookmark syncing and 1GB of IMAP email. Apple obviously could be offering quite a bit more for that $99.

The reason a .Mac upgrade would be so great is because I use two Macs almost equally throughout my day.

My primary computer at my home office is a Quad Core Mac Pro. When not at home I have my PowerBook G4 with me.

I use my PowerBook like a satellite of my Mac Pro. I try as hard as I can to keep them as identical as possible, but it’s not without quite a bit of effort. Seeing some updates to .Mac which would allow smarter file sharing and syncing along with remote access would be a dream come true.

I don’t know how many times I have saved an important file on the wrong computer, and then spent too much time digging around for it, or worse yet I can’t get access to it when I need to.

.Mac has an incredible amount of potential and Apple has an incredible amount of ingenuity. I’m excited to see what they have in store for us, and hopefully it will be like a little mini-Christmas for all of us who pay $99 a year for that dual arrow icon to spin in our toolbar.

UPDATE: Mac Rumors’ list of the sites giving live coverage starting at 1:00 PM EST –

Apple’s 08-07-07 Announcement

The Talk Show Episode #5

The Talk Show – Episode 5

Believe it or not, my favorite 3 minutes of the whole show are when John and Dan talk about proper punctuation with quotes.

Putting the punctiuation on the “inside?” or on “outside”?

The American rules say inside, and that drives me nuts. But with my wife being the grammar stickler that she is, and since I love her to death – I’ve always followed them.

UPDATE: Thanks to reader, Nima, who pointed out that my above example is incorrect –

Exclamation and question marks can go outside of the quotes, whereas commas and periods (almost) always go inside.

The Talk Show Episode #5

Eye Etiquitte

Cell Phone Eye Etiquette

The next necessary social behavior for hand’s free cell phone users. If you’re using your bluetooth earpiece, don’t look right at people as if you were talking to them. And what’s with the kung-fu hand gestures you use when we try to respond to you? “Hold on a minute! Can’t you tell I’m on the phone?”

[via Nate S.]

Eye Etiquitte

(mt) Media Temple Fans

The (mt) Virb Group.

Is it me, or do most Virb groups seem to have just about no personality? Well, this one is no exception. Did that persuade me not to join? Of course not. That’s because being part of a Virb group is less about giving and learning from the community in that group, and more like having a button on your messenger bag.

So while I was at it, I added a flickr button and Lorem Ipsum button. And while you’re at it, put me on your messenger bag.

(mt) Media Temple Fans

What Apple copied from Microsoft

Jeffery Zeldmen’s article about the power the iPhone has had on his work life is simply outstanding.

My iPhone has made me stop using calendar, contact, and e-mail applications I’ve used day and night for over a decade, and switch to the free — and in some ways less capable — applications that come bundled with Macintosh OS X. […] Changing years of work habits is not easy. Migrating data, in some cases by hand, takes time I don’t have to spare. Yet I’m making these changes of my own will, and happily.

I think I’ll read it again tomorrow.

What Apple copied from Microsoft