EclecticGuy

For the last several weeks I’ve noticed strange things on my blog. For instance, when editing a post, my theme’s header appeared in the edit area! Occasionally I would see load failures on admin and blog pages. Yesterday, when I returned from SuperBoo VII, I logged in to post and there were no editing tools! I loaded a previous post and the text area was blank – or so I thought. Turned out the text was all white and I could see it if I selected … Continue Reading

If you read my post yesterday, you know the story. The Apple store had to send me to the AT&T store this morning. My account was completely messed up. The gent at AT&T got things sorted and working in 10 minutes. Thanks Dennis at AT&T in the Burlington Mall!

Check out the 4 mile, 3 lane backup on Rt 2 heading east towards 128!

Looking east.

I got my first iPhone when they were released in July of 2007. The experience was extraordinarily pleasant for a cell phone purchase. I walked in to my local Apple Store at the Burlington Mall, there was no line, bought the phone, and left for home in less than 5 minutes. When I got home, I plugged the iPhone in to my iMac and powered it on. iTunes launched and walked me through a quick and painless activation process – I was upgrading from my CrackBerry (which I still have in the bottom of a drawer somewhere, make me an … Continue Reading

I’ve noticed more and more doom & gloom blog posts and other writings about the death of the Mobile Web and/or mobile applications. Enough Already! Here is my take on what is going on and why mobile has taken so long to flourish.

1) Mobile device manufacturers are keeping tight controls on application development on their platforms

With the exception of Apple’s iPhone and the future possibility of Google’s Android, developers have to jump through hoops and pay for the privilege of developing on the platform. Talk about stifling innovation! These same mobile device manufacturers have not put … Continue Reading