16 posts tagged “flickr”
I know I should have taken time to write about my iPhone experience last Friday. But with having friends over for dinner on Saturday, tennis and French Grand Prix on Sunday, some important programming to do Monday and Tuesday, and 4th of July lunch with my friend Wendy, only now I have the time to sit down and write something.
- No scheduled email checking, only periodic checking - no point checking for emails while I'm asleep and waste battery.
- Keyboard volume can't be adjusted - the clicking is a great feedback tool but it is way too loud to use in an office.
- No WAP support - not an iPhone issue as such but since I can't log onto Facebook's mobile site (which is WAP) I wish either Apple or Facebook do something about it.
- Wi-Fi password entry is difficult to say the least - since there is no copy & paste in the iPhone, I have to manually enter the wi-fi password. I ended up connecting our iPhones to the less secure router running WEP because the password is shorter (the WPA one is 63 characters long).
- The 'Share' feature should be pluggable for developers, i.e. plug-ins for Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, etc.
If you tell me six months ago that I will have multiple online 'presences', I would probably laughed in your face! Seriously, I didn't think I'll need more than a blog and a photo site online. But once I discovered first Twitter then Tumblr, I realised there are multiple ways of self-expression online and each of them represents a facet of me.
This week, I signed up with VIRBº which is a more 'mature' version of MySpace. Though nowhere as big as MySpace, it definitely looks much better, more professional. But the feature (upcoming actually) that caught my eyes is that Virb allows you to import blog posts from other sites. Assuming that it works via RSS like Tumblr's own post importing feature, this means I can have my Vox posts display on Virb without a bunch of copy & paste. So what's the big deal? Well, this means Virb can potentially become my online presence 'aggregator', while all my other sites show just one aspect of me. Vox for my thoughts, Flickr for my photos, Twitter for what I am up to at the moment, and Tumblr for things I find interesting. In the future, friends and family can discover all about me without going to four, five different sites while I am not locked in to Virb for all my content.
The lack of aggregation is my primary reason for shunting MySpace (hideous colours and layout are the others). In this Web 2.0 age, it is impossible to expect user to recreate content when they are already online somewhere. Why should I copy & paste blog posts from Vox into MySpace? Why should I save my Flickr photo then upload it to MySpace so I can share it?
If Virb can generate more buzz and expands the user base then I can foresee it replacing MySpace as the social network to be in. At least for the 'mature' users.
(You can find my other web presences on the left side bar. And if you want an invite for VIRB, just leave me a comment. I have 99 invites left.)
As you know, we moved apartment last week from Battery Park City to Jersey City. One of the main attraction is the great sun light and the view.
Last Monday I brought along my camera to my weekly tennis match. My friend Dan took some photos of me while I played my match. I was going to return the favour during his match but I played a double match instead :-) I guess I'll have to photograph him next time we play!
More on Flickr but this one on the left showing me in mid serve with my foot a few inches off the ground is my favorite of them all.
I think if my coach in Hong Kong all those years ago when I was a kid see these photos, he would be proud!
Apparently eiron has been too busy to blog about our trip to Chicago (which is true) so I'll just post the link to the Flickr photo set. You can enjoy the photos while waiting patiently for eiron's post.
- Web browsers (Firefox or Safari) run slow when iTunes is playing.
- I can type faster than the browser can display sometimes (think back to the 14.4kbps modem era).
- iPhoto takes forever to load, to save changes of photos, or to exports to Flickr.
- Video podcast in 320x240 resolution drops frames when played. Don't even think about HD or H.264 encoded video.
- And most important of all, eiron has a faster computer than either of mine!
Having said all that, my G4 800MHz Titanium PowerBook has been with me for over 4 years. And forcing it to drive my new Dell LCD monitor @ 1900x1200 resolutions doesn't help the speed matter either.
Now, should I prolong the suffering and wait till after Christmas to see if there is any bargains or price drop? Or I can just pick up one of those speedy Mac Pro from the SoHo Apple Store this coming Black Friday, especially with the 10% discount?
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