Adam Wishneusky
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After years of waiting, I got an iPhone. Here are the awesome things I have discovered:
- The tiny remote in the headphone cord is awesome: pause, next and volume controls
- Syncing takes forever mobileme is worth $100/year to avoid all non-music syncing. Also, if my phone gets lost of stolen, I can FIND IT. How bad-ass is that?
- Everything is nearly instantaneous and the network and video performance are better than my laptop.
- Location-based everything ROCKS.
- Google Maps with GPS and compass means I never have to know where I am or where I’m going again.
- Push notifications for AIM and email means I don’t keep checking my phone all the time.
- Three things that I never would have expected loving, but WAY up on the list:
- $.99 app to make the iphone the Apple remote I never had for Front Row on my mac (mine’s an old pre-Intel one)
- Playing music through the iphone’s speakers
- Free white noise app
- Control itunes on my Mac when I’m home with basically the full interface on the iphone’s screen. The less I touch my computer the BETTER.
- Watch and listen to podcasts in my queue on the road AND get new/other episodes over wifi or 3G! never run out of entertainment!
- Shazam identifies songs I hear for free
- Pandora wherever I want for free
- Manage my Netflix queue immediately when someone recommends a movie instead of having to make a note and do it later
- RTM’s iphone app is as good as the web version I’ve been using to manage todos
- My co-workers’ great tools:
- iTrans NYC - subway maps with routing that don’t need a network connection (i.e. you can make/change plans when already below ground)
- RulerPhone - measure anything using the camera
- I will never use Skype but it will be useful to lots of people
- Oodles of free and cheap games I thought I’d have no interest in but are good for filling those 10 min periods of boredom in our lives. This one and this one are faves so far.
- Check movie listings, restaurant and bar reviews, find reservations while out for last-minute plan-making
- Voice control that I won’t use
- Tethering that I WILL use to get my crapbook online away from home. I have much less need for this with all the iphone does, but once in a while I need a full computer ;)
- View my files in DropBox
And here are the sucky things:
- Not having flash sucks only because some places use non-youtube video such asvimeo
- The battery JUST lasts a day. Once my initial iphone-craziness passes, I’ll develop a usage pattern and know when I need to charge it at work during the day or whatever. Also, getting mobileme means I don’t have to sync, so I can plug in by my bed, not only where my computer is.
The Cutest Place in Brooklyn
I discovered the cutest place in Brooklyn via Twitter recently. It’s Warren Place in Cobble Hill. A secret little Alley between Warren and Baltic Streets.
The buildings flanking the alley are cuter than the other brownstones and townhouses, but that’s just a hint. Entering the alley, you see two pedestrian paths with gardens running down the center.
Incredibly lucky (and rich?) people get to live in the many tiny and adorable apartment buildings on each side that open onto Warren Pl. Two alleys run on the other sides of the buildings providing backyard space too. (see all the pictures here)
On my walk home, I encountered one of those “Building under 24 hour surveillance” places:
Went to Karaoke at Duet 35 for Bree’s birthday. There was this secret door in the stall in the men’s room. I should have taken the picture from farther right, the thing blends in with the wall and has no handle!
I can now walk around the real world looking at street view on my cellphone.
