I want an iPhone, no wait I want the Storm. No wait, I want the iPhone on the Verizon Network. I took one big plunge and ended up with a Mac which I am not regretting by any stretch of the imagination.
Am I ready to take yet another big step and leave my oh-so-wonderful Verizon? I’ll admit that the coming of the Blackberry Storm kept me in wishful-thinking mode and I was hoping that it was going to be my end all solution to my future mobile needs. Sad to say the phone did not impress me either in person or online reviews.
iPhone seems like the next best choice, but my understanding is that it does everything extremely well except act as a phone. Why call it an iPhone when it’s more of an iMobile (device). I’ve also heard plenty of people complain about it’s weak battery life (only because of it’s robust plethora of apps).
The battery life dilemma can be resolved by getting a car charger and maybe an extra cord for work to recharge while you’re working hard (read: researching more about your iPhone). Why Apple didn’t consider allowing for easy battery replacement is beyond me.
Stop and Stare as an ordinary man w/ his ordinary comfortable ways slowly converts to a new trendy technology on the basis of “it’s better.” It’s not about purchasing a phone anymore. It’s about purchasing something that will keep me connected by whatever means possible, have it be facebook, twitter, flickr, banking service, google maps, instant messaging, sms messaging, visual voicemails, feed readers, email clients, internet radio, everyday web browsing.
“He’s gone 10 hours straight, he’s like a machine … I know kung-fu.” Communication is evolving and we should to. Now which road do we take? The text-based one, or the one w/ all the pretty visuals. They do say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but simple is safe.
Personalized search results are here and the end-users rejoiced. No longer will the validity of a website be assigned solely by fancy-algorithms and clusters of servers in freezing rooms. We humans are now allowed to drastically affect what we deem worthy as a more bona fide result.
Who-da-whata? Special attention to markup and links use to be your claim to fame in Google, but now marketing will take an even more drastic role on who’s on top (popularity contest anyone?)
Web Marketing is going to play a much bigger role on what’s hot and what’s not. This isn’t a bad thing, it just means that the rules have changed. Allowing humans to decide what’s good has lead to some great creations, iTunes Genius anyone?
Clarification
After a second-trip I can see how my summary can be misleading. I’m not saying that your personalized results give you complete control of Google results.
Immediate realization; I’m saying that comments made on search results will affect whether or not an end-user will choose to remove, keep, or promote a result from their end.
If the site is greatly promoted via web marketing (word of mouth) or what-have-you this will affect how others choose to augment their results.
If you have no prior knowledge or simply haven’t chosen a side yet in regards to the result you’re looking at and the masses seem to agree that this result is more than valid, it’s safe to assume you might choose to click on this result as opposed to other not-so-popular results. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html
We’re in the golden age of democracy and people’s opinions are becomming more and more transparent. What’s important to consider is how your followers see you.
Imelda Bettinger, the sweetest of sweets sends me a DM (direct message) via Twitter letting me know that I’ve been tagged. How dare you!? Wait, what?
Apparently if you get tagged you’re required (politely asked) to mention the person that tagged you, write 6 random things about yourself and tag 6 others.
6 Random Things about The Eloy
I spoke to a real-estate agent on Wednesday (means nothing … just talking)
The Mac Book Pro. My new distraction, why didn’t someone tell me earlier!? Ok. I lie, everyone told me I just didn’t listen. Apparently not listening is something I’ve always done, but it didn’t become obvious to me until just recently. Trust me, I’ve been slapped w/ the obviousness of my short comings all too many times but it wasn’t until just lately that the swelling cheeks started to gain my attention.
Experiment: Maybe I should just tape my mouth shut for a week and see what I learn.
I have never really worked with a Mac and it goes without saying (then why are you saying it?), that I’ve never owned one.
My desktop and notebook (both Sony’s) have recently slowly faded away. My desktop makes more noise than our air conditioning unit and my notebook plays digital peek-a-boo with fast-action startup and shutdown ninja skills.
Horrible comparison starting point, but I remember quite well how my 2 powerhouse PC’s performed. I’ve announced my purchasing endeavor for a new computer to my closest of friends and they’ve been the best at giving me their advice.
It amazes me to see how passionate all mac users are and I’m beginning to see why. There were a couple of PC (non mac) defendants though … but small in comparison to those who use Macs.
People who defend PC’s are super-computer savvy, they know the directory structure and live by it. I’ll admit I’m having some difficulty letting go as well. It’s not to say that the directory structure (the organized folders) doesn’t exist on macs, it’s just hidden as if they’re trying to protect you from the scariness.
People who defend Mac’s are somewhat-computer savvy. Those who don’t believe they have to know computers in their entirety to get their work done. They thoughtlessly understand that it’s a medium by which they travel to get their goals accomplished and don’t live in the system but rather simply use the system to get things done.
Great, a clear difference. So which one am I? For the purposes of this post I’ll call the majority of Mac users laymen. An analogy would be the difference between driving a car and knowing how to fix it. People who own great cars usually know how to fix them. Well it’s the same w/ computers. Those who work in the world of design and development need to know more about the technology in order to utilize it.
So I’m a PC. Wrong. Apparently Macs have a lot more to offer to developers than meets the eye. Macs are used by people I admire such as Google and 37 Signals (experts in the field of web development).
Last year Schipul sent me to the Google Conference and I was amazed at the number of developers and presenters with macs. 37 Signals a company who ideas I believe in religiously, claims they won’t hire anyone who doesn’t use a mac. Technology Prejudice?
Now I realize I’m jumping all over the place. There are huge differences between application engineers and web developer (web engineers). Google doesn’t seem to know the difference, the majority of their peeps are referred to as software engineers and treat it all in the same. This probably explains why their web applications behave so much like desktop applications.
All in all it seems evident that Macs have something to offer to both developers and the rest of the world. I’ve owned my brand new, first ever Macbook Pro for 4 days now and can’t remember the last time I was more satisfied w/ my purchase.
Ok I lie, my Bose computer speakers are amazing, they don’t just play music, they sing to me with sound clarity that could best be described as holy and spiritual.
This post was written on my MacBook pro and my fingers are loving this creation station. This post is not to announce my resignation of PC usage, it’s merely to say that I’ve walked through the Mac doorway and all I can say so far is Wow.
So I went to Dr. Sketchy this weekend. Â Wow, what was I thinking missing the last 10 months (I think that’s how long this has been around). Â I will definintely be coming back. Â As always click the photo for more photos.
He shows me twitterific, facebook, gmail, gtalk, google maps, google search, the easy voicemail system, and contacts section, oh and wordpress (blogging from your phone) oh my.
How dare he accidently sell me. Â I use all of those things, and now I don’t have to be stuck at some desk in my home or office.
Ok, so he didn’t tell me about the wordpress thing, but still you get the point. It’s the thing I never knew I always wanted.
There is one thing and one thing only keeping me away and that’s the AT&T network. Â Verizon rules, can you hear me now? Â – Good. Â Â
Went to see The Dark Knight on Friday and I don’t regret it.  I honestly only wanted to go see it because it was one of Heath Ledgers last movies (he still has one more coming out called The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009).
It was a-mazing to say the least. Heath Ledger as the Joker — brilliant!  I’m not ready to say that he was better than Jack Nicholson, but it he does help you to see the Joker in a whole new light
The story line wasn’t bad either, lots of twist and turns … dark, but not too dark … cheesy but not too cheesy. Â Just right. I give it 2 thumbs way up and a toe.
