As summer winds into fall I've been doing a mix of things: a bit of organization and a lot of customization. Notion I’ve been using Google Sheets to keep track of my retro museum for at least a decade. I inventory what I buy to understand what I own, what I want to own, and …
iPhone 17 Pro: Ordered
I've been part of the iPhone Upgrade Program for 5 years, which means I get Apple's new hotness each time it's released. Last year's iPhone 16 Pro brought a slightly larger screen, a higher quality ultra wide camera, more optical zoom, and improved battery life in the same body design. This year introduces an updated …
Awe Dropping: Hot Takes
Apple announced a bunch of new stuff today - AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch SE 3, Apple Watch Ultra 3, iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, and iPhone 17 Pro. These are my initial opinions. iPhone 17 Goes Pro It's all about that screen The big add to the "regular" iPhone is …
Awe Dropping: What I’m Excited For
Apple is holding its yearly iPhone event tomorrow and rumors have been flying all year about what will be announced. Here's how I feel about everything, using Mac Rumors list as a guide. Excited Scrolling the Apple Website: My absolute most favorite thing to do after an Apple event is to scroll through all of …
This is How I Feel About the iPhone 4s
I was going to write a big article about the hoopla around the iPhone 4s, but John Gruber beat me to it. I agree with him completely and I am one of those 3GS users to whom the 4s is a huge upgrade. I'm also a photographer and I appreciate all the work that Apple …
My iPhone 5
This was originally supposed to be a post about what new iPhone models I thought Apple would announce on Tuesday. Â I thought that they'd announce two models - a low-end model that looks like the iPhone 4 and a high-end model that had a new case design. Â Then I read John Gruber's thoughts in his …
Players Icon Pack!
When I started work on Players, I decided to focus on functionality over graphics and prettiness. Â Now that the app has reached a stable place feature-wise (for now), I've had a chance to finally start working on graphics. Â I actually did create an icon for version 0.2, but it was horribly crappy and I never …
Players 0.2
Where have I been lately? Â Well after a bit of a burn out, followed by a redesign, followed by some slow development, followed by some late nights, and finally some field testing I've completed the next major update to my first iPhone App: Players. Â If you don't know, Players is an application used to help …
My First iPhone App!
I've created my first iPhone app!!! Â I've wanted to get into iPhone programming for a few years now but have never really had a good idea to work on. Â I could always create the next flashlight or unit converter, but I wanted to make something that was actually useful to me. Â Sally and I play …
C'mon iTunes…
We recently had an AT&T repeated installed at work and my 0 bar signal on my iPhone has gone to full capacity ever since. So why is it that I can't use iTunes on my phone for the life of me? I have to continually quit and restart it (thanks iOS 4) because I get …
Relatively Ambitious 