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iPhone 3.0 Features I’d Sure Like to See
written 2 May 2009 in the early afternoon
Word amongst yourselves, assuming you and yours are comprised of Apple fanboys, tech writers or gadget geeks, is that iPhone 3.0 is the latest thing to talk about on forums, between D&D sessions and in lieu of washing your hands of swine sickness.
Nifty confirmations include MMS, copy and paste and 3G tethering. Some rumors are claiming video recording and possibly even editing will be possible. But what no single publication has revealed yet is my personal list of upgrades I’d like to see.
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Safari Templates for Designers: iPhone Safari, Vector Safari and Photoshop Safari Template
I do a lot of design work, you know, ’cause I’m a designer and all. I often need to display web pages within the context of a browser, and I typically use Safari to display those pages. Why? Because Safari is very minimalist, and allows my designs to show through, not a bunch of Fox-flavored bright blue windows or whatever.
A Few Tweaks that Would do Mobile Safari Some Good
The Internet is pretty cool, or so my grandfather might say, were he still alive and not 105 years old. But what about an update to the mobile version of Safari?
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App Store and Girlfriend Make Up, Sex Okay
Another iPhone app I’d really like to see is a pretty simple Wikipedia Wish List. The basic idea is that you have an app that you can jot down things you’d like to learn more about, via Wikipedia. So say you’re on the bus and suddenly have the urge to know who invented the milk crate, but your stop is coming up. You could stay on the bus, miss your stop, and gain all of that sweet, milky knowledge, or you could get off, make it to work, not get fired and still be able to afford that $100 / month iPhone bill.
App Store Uncool to Girlfriend
Two problems i’m having with the App Store: 1.) When I download or update apps, all of my icons on my various screens get rearranged, seemingly without logic (ie. some apps just get tacked onto the first empty space, others stuffed in somewhere randomly). Annoying when you want to have things in some type of order for easy sorting.
The Thing About iPhone 2.0 Apps is…
While all of the hype around iPhone’s 2.0 software and how it is likely going to save the rainforests and prevent little old ladies from dying and whatnot is well-deserved, in my awesome opinion, their does seem to be one slight bummer with what I see with the apps thus far: they’re very limited in what they can do to the OS itself.
Find Port Authority Hand Schedules Instantly
After I created this mobile-optimized version of the Port Authority’s trip finder, Jake from 42harold.org sent me some code and permission to style up his own creation, an extremely simple and easy to use little form that allows you to type in the name of a bus you’re looking to find and it’ll bring up the PDF version of the hand schedule from the Port Authority’s website.
A Better Port Authority Trip Finder
The Port Authority of Allegheny County offers an online trip planner that is decent from a functionality standpoint, but the Port Authority’s website in general, to be as definitively accurate as possible, sucks. For example, it’s a table-based layout, the design leaves a good bit to be desired, the site’s homepage fails HTML validation with 65 errors, and it’s awfully slow. Plus, it’s one of the few remaining sites where you actually have to type in www or you get a Bad Request error.
So I’ve done what I could and nabbed the primary code from their main site and optimized it for mobile phones. Well, for iPhone in particular, but it should work relatively well on any mobile device that’s got an Internet connection. If you use the site on a mobile device other than iPhone, let me know how it looks / functions in the comments.
iPhone and mobile device optimized Port Authority Trip Planner »
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iTunes Should Manage Pictures
On a Mac, iTunes should manage pictures as it manages your music, video, and podcasts. Perhaps just integrate iPhoto into iTunes and ditch the other application altogether. It’s incredibly annoying that everytime I plug my phone in it opens iPhoto and asks me to import my pictures, not only because it tries to import every single picture every single time, instead of just knowing what the new pics are, but also because, well…what’s the point? iTunes is supposed to be a music player, but as it can handle PDFs (typically for enhanced albums that come with some artwork) and all types of movies, it’s basically just one step away from being able to load up a bunch of jpegs.
Use the Gmail Logo as Your Gmail iPhone Web Snippet
This solution no longer works, as Gmail has apparently changed the way it handles images pasted directly into the browser. However, commenter Mike mentioned that Google has finally gotten around to making their own icons show up by default. Just visit google.com/m on your iPhone, click the Gmail tab in the top navigation, and add the icon as normal (ie, using the + button in Safari’s bottom menu). You can do this for all Google Apps accessible via the google.com/m page.
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