Mea Culpa

July 13, 2008 – 1:06 pm

iphone-unbox-back In Latin, mea culpa means, “my fault.”  Mea – me, and culpa – culpable.  In this case, I have to apologize for not updating in a few days. 

You can probably guess the reason why. 

Yes, I got an iPhone.  A white 16GB model to be specific. I love it.  And I’ve been using it pretty much to the exclusion of all else.

iPhone Unboxing Gallery, "Video Games Live" Concert Gallery


More About the iPhone

I have seen so much press for the iPhone 3G already, I won’t contribute too much to it myself at the moment.  I might weigh in with my thoughts, favorite apps and other stuff later.  For now, let me just throw these things out:

  • No iPhone, original or 3G, supports A2DP.  This is a Bluetooth specification for allowing stereo music playback and remote control of the music stream.  It has been proven the hardware in the iPhone can easily support A2DP, but so far, Apply has deliberately ignored it.  Why?  I also asked people about this on FriendFeed.
  • I definitely miss cut and paste, a lot.
  • The camera works better than many folks bitch about.  Try living with the 1.2 megapixel crapola toy camera on the Sidekick 3 and LX for a while.  You basically stop taking pictures, they are so bad.  Here’s an example.
  • Sure, the iPhone isn’t a Nokia n95.  It’s also not 800 bucks, 3/4ths the size of an ACME brick, or burdened with a laggy interface.  And the browser.. even without flash.. magnificent.
  • The screen gets dirty really easily.  I’m cleaning it all the time.  And I’m glad I got a white one, because the black back shows dirt and oil as much as the front.
  • Where is video recording?  Surely they are working on this.

Moderately Tasteless Ad

bsa-logo I have to apologize for the ad in my sidebar too.  You see, on a lark I decided to offer ad space on my site for a ridiculously low price, thinking I could be selective about the ads.  Even then, nobody was buying.  Well, a few days ago I got a bite, but it wasn’t an ad that I wanted.  I must have misunderstood the terms of the agreement though, because I thought, if I didn’t approve the ad, I didn’t have to run it. 

Apparently, you have to specifically not approve an ad because, guess what, the ad network accepted it for me and then yelled at me for not having the ad code on my page.  Oops.

Now, it’s not a completely tasteless ad, but it isn’t what I normally would have chosen and I have an email in to ask about changing or removing it, maybe refunding the money.  But for now, enjoy.

New iPhone Support

I’ve been using MoFuse for a few months now to support folks that are using the iPhone.  MoFuse is a great, free app (there are premium feaures you can get too) that takes your RSS feed and makes it into a mobile-optimized site for the iPhone and an alternate “light” site for other phones.  Corvida has written a more thorough article on MoFuse here.

I already was using a WordPress plugin (WP Mobile Edition, that I listed in this article) that is quick and clean for mobile phones, but today I looked deeper into direct iPhone support and I found the WPtouch plugin.  Although there are several caveats (like not being able to use it with WP Super Cache) it works great on my site and exists nicely with my other mobile plugin, appropriately only redirecting only iPhone users to its special theme.

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So enjoy it, and let me know if you run across any problems.

Update: Do you want to see the new iPhone theme?  I’ve included a screenshot below.

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