What's on MY iPhone?

Lower Bar

• Phone
• Mail
• Calendar
• Safari
  

Page 1 - Utilities

• Messages
• Contacts
• Calculator
• Units
• iPod
• Notes
• 1Password
• Settings
• FAC
• App Store
• Clock
• Night Stand

Page 2 - Projects, File Managment, Databases, IM

• TSheets
• Toodledo
• Recorder
• Voice Memos
• Air Sharing
• Dropbox
• Bento
• iOwn
• Skype
• Echofon
• AIM
• Y! Messenger
• IM+ Lite
• Dictation
• VNC

Page 3 - Photography, TV, Music and Sound

• Camera
• Photos
• Picoli
• Darkslide
• 12seconds
• Sketches
• YouTube
• TiVo Mobile
• i.TV
• Now Playing
• PhoneFlicks
• iTunes
• Pandora
• Shazam
• WhiteNoise
• Effector

Page 4 - Mapping, Reading, Weather

• Maps
• Google Earth
• Locator
• Stocks
• StarmapPro
• MoonMapLite
• On the Grill
• SportsTap
• Instapaper
• NYTimes
• Stanza
• Kindle
• TWC
• State College Weather
• Weather
• eTextbooks

Page 5 - Entertainment

• Sudoku
• FlightControl
• Civ Rev
• Enigmo
• Hero of Sparta
• Monopoly Worldwide
• StoneLoops!
• Ocarina
• Flick Fishing
• Air Hockey
• Sol Free
• Tap Tap Revenge
• Moonlight lite
• Wild West
  

DYI 3-D Video

I saw an interesting episode of "Science of the Movies" on the making of 3-D movies. It got me to thinking about making my own movies. I was thinking of taking two flip cameras (I only have one FlipUltra HD) and mounting them so that their lenses are 2.5 inches apart to replicate the average occular distance. I was wondering if there was a way to create my own anaglyph movies. The part that is really holding me up is how to "publish the video." I'd probably need Final Cut Pro so that I could work with two video tracks (one red and one cyan). After that, I'm not sure. Would I be able to watch that on the iPhone, on my HDTV, on my computer? I'm just going to have to see :-)

Legality of Recording Meetings

http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-conversations
http://www.rcfp.org/taping/

I've recently downloaded "Recorder" for my iPhone and was happy that I could shelve yet another electronic gadget: my digital voice recorder.

I'm often so busy in meetings trying to understand some of the high-level topics, that it's difficult to take notes on all the details. Using a voice recorder was great in this regard. To be honest, I would just turn it on during meetings and review my recordings later to see what I missed.

I'm not really sure what got me thinking about the ethics and legality of doing so, but there's a lot out there that really put the breaks on for me. There are a lot of issues out there that need some careful thought and the plethora of digital options only makes the waters murkier.

What about recording sessions with Adobe Connect?
What about recording meetings with a Pulse Pen?

I'm going to think twice before I hit the red record button the next time. And I'm going to go through and delete any of the recordings I had made previously.

PSU@UP VPN config

I have to admit that I'm not exactly sure why I need a VPN, but I think it has something to do with UP's new wireless security here at the Outreach Building. I have the notion that we're just catching up with other networks on main campus.

I had some problems connecting initially. I realized that I was having troubles since I didn't have WiFi active. Once that was on and I was connected to "pennstate", everything went well.

Oracle to iPhone

There isn't much out there, but I did find this pretty cool way that will potentially allow me to at least pull my Oracle calendar into Apple's iCal so that I can sync events that way. I found this article from a different UIC webpage on general Oracle use.

White Box iPhone Bug

Two days ago, I went to sync my iPhone and was a little surprised that the one photo I remember taking wasn't appearing when I launched iPhoto. It wasn't a super-important image, so I let it slide.

Then yesterday, Hyunjoo and I went for a hike on Mt. Nittany and tried to take images there. That's when I discovered that the camera wasn't taking pictures. I was almost certain that it was a software issue.

I just hopped on the internet and lo-and-behold... it's a pretty well documented bug.

I used the Method #2, but maybe should have waited to read further down to the "f1b43d3b3ecf259a3626c13a8b0cebd8ba513117.mdbackup" solution. That's OK, I'm beginning with a new slate.

Apple's new iPhone (kinda)

Well, Apple did it. I dunno why they didn't do it earlier, like at Macworld. I waited until the 17th of January to buy my iPhone because I was holding out for a 16GB model and they just released it two days ago. Nineteen days, geesh. Well, it would have been $100 more than I had paid which in itself is enough to warrant patience. But, now that I've been using the 8GB model I'm OK with the capacity since I'm syncing about every day anyhow and I can't go through 8GB of video, podcasts, and audio. But the prices will come down and when Hyunjoo gets one, she'll get the bigger one for sure.

iPhone, so easy a baby could use it

Streaming video to iPhone

The iPhone Remote software is awesome! Unfortunately I've been having problems streaming video. I tried to stream a recording of "Dirty Harry" I got off my EyeTV. The sound will drop out and it's difficult to navigate forward or backward to resume play. It'll stop every minute or so and then start up again without sound.

Good Article on all the In's and Out's of Video on an iPod

How the iPhone has changed my life in 4 Days

• It is so much easier to keep on top of heaps of emails.
• I don't have to carry my cell phone and Palm TX anymore
• I can watch TV that I record using my EyeTV
• I can schedule my EyeTV to remotely record
• I can get map information that's more up-to-date than the most recent version available through my Garmin GPS
• I can stay in contact with everyone far easier than before
• I can finally begin to sort out my music and finish adding my "star" recommendations
• I can take pictures again after my digital camera kinda died
• It's much easier to update my address book and calendars now
• I can check out new music on the road through the iTunes (mobile) store
• It's a lot easier to check out YouTube videos and share them

There are some things I'd like to see...

• When a website claims that it has a dedicated iPhone website, that's not necessarily a good thing - they usually limit what you're able to do compared to a desktop
• Flash compatibility when surfing
• Deleting multiple emails
• The ability to make basic edits among your pictures before sending them out
• Taking video clips
• Making voice memos
• Full To-Do lists
• Free Skype functionality
• SD card support
• ability to edit docs in Google Docs
• more onboard storage