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I Wouldn’t Want to Try This With an iPhone

It was the geek party trick of the evening. I was standing by the beer fridge at Friday’s b5media office-warming party when someone asked where the bottle opener was. Not seeing one in sight, Chris whipped out his Blackberry and used it to open a beer bottle. I had my camera handy and shot this video:

Chris says that Blackberries are tough. Once, in a fit of anger, he hurled his Blackberry into his truck — he cracked his windshield, but the Blackberry was unahrmed. After opening a couple of beer bottles, he showed me his Blackberry: it had some gouge marks where it had made contact with the bottlecap, but it was working just fine.

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Actually, It’s Canadian Telcos’ Preferred Means of Payment

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Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

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Plato Predicted That Mobile Phones Would Make Us Dumb, Too

Plato and his iPhone: “Damn, what was Socrates’ number again?”

You shouldn’t worry at all about the alarmist report in the Telegraph claiming that relying on your mobile’s address book to remember all your phone numbers and email addresses is “dumbing us down”. Reading and believing it is a far bigger threat to your smarts.

I’m not worried because I remember what a guy named Plato said about writing: that by writing things down rather than committing them to memory, we’d create forgetful people and everything would go downhill from there:

If men learn [writing], it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows.

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Hand-Knit iPhone

Well, this beats my hand-drawn iPhone or Jason Kottke’s carboard iPhone: it’s a hand-knit iPhone created by Greg’s (from the blog DaddyTypes.com) mom!

Hand-knit iPhone creating by Greg at DaddyTypes.com’s mom

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Sound Like a Player with These iPhone Ringtones

Whoo-hoo! I got an iPhone! See?

Photo: Hand-drawn iPhone held in front of a monitor showing a real iPhone.
I can dream, can’t I?

Okay, I didn’t. I’m holding off for a while:

But that doesn’t mean that I’m missing out on all the iPhone niceties. A kind soul just sent me a .zip file containing all the default iPhone ringtones [2.1 MB], and I now share them with you. Enjoy!

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You Know What Big Hands Mean…Smaller iPhone!

My co-worker James “Yes, that’s my real name” Koole pointed this out to me earlier this week, and now BoingBoing is pointing to a blog entry that does a bang-on comparison of earlier and later iPhone ads. In the later ads, the iPhone looks smaller because the hands holding it are larger. Almost freakishly so, in fact:

Animated GIF comparing the iPhone’s hand models.
You know what big hands mean…

Here’s what we imagine the hand model for the “Rev B” iPhone looks like:

Giant-handed guy with iPhone.