My thoughts on the new iPhone 3GS

Today was the WWDC keynote as most people know. I watched it on Ustream with crappy video and audio, and I missed the section about iPhone Os 3.0 and all the app demos. I did see, however, the last 10-15 minutes about the iPhone 3GS. In my opinion, it is truly awesome.

iPhone 3GS on the Apple website

After the keynote, I caught up on the Apple website (picture is linked to the iPhone page) and found that I didn’t miss much. Unlike many rumors, the iPhone’s visual apperance wasn’t changed at all, like a front facing camera and a moved earpiece. I think it’s good to keep the good ol’ iPhone and not mess it up with a front facing camera and an akwardly moved earpiece.

Secondly, apparently, the iPhone 3GS is faster than the iPhone 3G. This will call for a faster processor, but,  thankfully, the battery was upgraded. That is mostly people’s pet peeve about the iPhone: you can’t change the battery.

Also, they (finally) added video with the camera. The video is impressive: 640×480 (VGA) at 30fps. Also, the camera itself is now auto focus, auto white balance, and auto exposure. You can even focus on one certain thing (like a person), a feature known as “Tap to Focus.” There is even a macro mode, sequence photos, and good pictures in low light. It’s even at 3-megapixels.

Camera on the iPhone 3GS

And I’m not done. My favorite new feature is voice control, where you can tell your iPhone to call a person, and it will call it, or tell it to play an artist or song and it will. This is truly my favorite feature by far, even though most phones can already do this. My old Motorola RAZR can even do this (except it requires actually learning the names). At least you can tell the iPhone to play songs similar to the one currently playing.

Ooh, Cut, Copy & Paste. Finally. This is what all iPhone and even iPod touch users have been waiting for. It’s shocking it took OS 3.0 to get this in there. But, here it is. Finally, once again.

Another awesome feature is voice memos. A built in application for voice memos is definetly needed. There are already many applications for voice memos on the App Store (as shown below, click opens iTunes search page), but it’s finally here for free with the iPhone.

What happens when you search Voice Memo on iTunes

Another feature is Tethering, which makes your internet on your iPhone available to your computer. Thing is, even though the terms of service of AT&T says I can’t do this, I can do it via Bluetooth and USB with my RAZR, and just Bluetooth on my BlackBerry. Interesting. I also believe I heard that, as with MMS (more on that later), this will be delayed. But, it’s still a good feature.

I’m gonna finish off this post with the improved messaging system. Not only will MMS be added so you can send pictures and videos with your iPhone via text messages. Unfortunately, this will be delayed thanks to AT&T. But, the new text messaging chat will be improved, including a horizontal keyboard.

Messaging on the iPhone 3GS

Well, that’s all I got for you. If you want to check out some of the features, just click the first picture to go to the iPhone page on Apple.com.

Mac OS X on an external hard drive

This weekend I got a second external hard drive. Then I wondered what I wanted to do with it. I finally decided that I should put OS X on it!

It was pretty easy, actually. All I had to do is choose my USB drive as the disk to install stuff on. Because I did not have a retail Leopard install disk and only had a drop-in DVD included with my purchased-in-February 2008 Mac mini.

It wasn’t quick. The upgrade from the Tiger install disks I had, to that drop-in disc install. Then I decided to install the iLife ‘09 on the Leopard.

The only bad thing about booting off of a USB drive is that it is legacy, also known as “unsupported by Apple,” which means, if things break when you boot from a USB drive, it will not be covered by your warranty. That’s all I got for you, so good luck.

Installing Windows on my Mac

Recently, I completley reformatted my Mac and reinstalled, basically to take out statistics. But I had an epiphany to install Windows too. What I did right after installing Leopard, I started up the Boot Camp Assistant. I chose how much I wanted to be on the Windows partition, then I clicked “Partition”. The application let me do whatever I wanted while it was partitioning. It didn’t even unmount any disks.

After partitioning with Boot Camp was done, I popped in the Windows CD, and restarted into it. Everything loaded, I partitioned, setup files copied, but then I couldn’t boot off of the copied setup files. So I had to choose a different option on the partition menu and I copied setup files again. The install stalled at “Installing Devices” at about 67%. So, I uplugged my XLR8 XtraView and did the process again. This time it installed. I was pretty happy. I had it also activated with the help of a master.

So, not to interesting, but “fun”. This Windows is installed on the fastest computer i’ve owned. Ever.

Probably the best song I have ever made.

I made this song within an hour, in GarageBand using only 3 apple loops; a deep electric piano, an ambient beat and a shaker. Supr-size is the full title.

Another Song

Here is another song from me. I want you to have it. If you want it, click here. MP3 coming soon.

Numa Numa “Cascada” Remix

This is my beloved remix of the Numa Numa guy. Only problem: I’m not fat.

 

This has been dubbed “osxdude’s youtube retardation”.

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My Second iPod has been washed :(

If you go to my live stream sooner or later you will see I have a lamp on, but it’s not to bright. That lamp has my iPod Shuffle hanging on a metal wire. It’s actually drying because it was washed. My first iPod shuffle was silver and it got washed during a vacation. Thank the Lord I brought a backup CD player and a CD with some of my Shuffle’s music on it. Now I have no iPod for months. Again.

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