So, I picked up an iPhone over the week­end.  To all the peo­ple who waited in line for over 24 hours, I say: HAW HAW.  To all of the peo­ple who waited in line for over 24 hours to buy mul­ti­ple iPhones to sell on eBay, I saw: DOUBLE HAW HAW.  I had to stand in line about 5 min­utes to play with a demo iPhone and I had to stand in line zero min­utes to actu­ally buy one. 

The phone itself is really nice.  The appli­ca­tions are great, the data con­nec­tiv­ity is a bit slow, but not notice­ably dif­fer­ent from my Treo.  The abil­ity to watch video pod­casts some­place other than the Mac Mini under the TV is pretty nice.  I had to per­form a lit­tle email magic to get the email work­ing the way I wanted (i.e. only mes­sages addressed directly to me go to the phone, ignor­ing mail­ing lists and other mass-mailings.)

I only have two gripes.  1: the large fancy-schmancy completely-engulfing-the-ear head­phones I use at work have an ear­phone plug that is not quite slim enough to plug into the recessed ear­phone jack, so I needed a $10 adapter from Belkin to plug them in.  2: when list­ing to pod­casts in the car, I have to put the phone in air­plane mode (turn­ing off the cel­lu­lar radio), oth­er­wise I get that chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp inter­fer­ence through the cas­sette tape adapter.  This isn’t that big a deal to me because I don’t use the phone in the car (stick shift + rag top = hard to drive + hard to lis­ten), but I do have to remem­ber to turn the phone back to nor­mal mode when I arrive at work/home.  I prob­a­bly have a mag­netic choke (is that what they’re called?) lying around at home or work that I can use to help clean up the signal.

Here is where I post “my first iPhone app.”  Okay, it is less of an app and more of a mostly sta­tic page.  I wanted my book­marks to work like the appli­ca­tions on the home screen, with icons, rather than as a list of text.  I also wanted the abil­ity I have in Fire­fox of being able to quickly search dif­fer­ent places (i.e. I can type “imdb Hack­ers” into the URL field to search IMDB for the movie “Hack­ers”), so I made some­thing sim­i­lar in JavaScript.  It’s here: http://m.netninja.com/ as well as http://m.brianenigma.com/ (because some web fil­ters still block Net­ninja.) If any­one wants to tweak it, the list of links, link names, and icon images is a sim­ple PHP array and can be eas­ily mod­i­fied.  The source code is at http://m.netninja.com/index.phps.

Next up, unless some­one beats me to it, is a JavaScript-based programmer’s cal­cu­la­tor.  I need to be able to do, at the very min­i­mum, base conversions.

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