August 2008 Archives

Looking at my iPhone I've realized that in less than a month I've used 100MB of data. That is about 30 times the average data usage I had with my N95 and Orange. It does included some app installs, but a lot of those came over home wifi.  I'll admit that my data usage on Orange was capped, but a thirty fold increase surprised me. It does not include much data upload to Flickr, if any. I'm waiting on Flickrexport and haven't tried the others, yet.  Not really news to those of you with iPhones already, but the ease of access to the Internet means those idle moments are used for rss or email or similar. Omnifocus and its syncing to .mac mean I can use the tube ride to process my to do list and it is synced to my mac when I get to work.  I do want my iPhone to be more clever, to know more about me, the activity theory work I've been reading and the aurora video are bleeding across into this post now. Location is only one context, time of day and recency in activity also have a bearing. I'd also like a lot more sites to work on my iPhone, though the rumoured 40 million phones Apple are building might sway that.

I've wanted to be able to do this for a long, long time. From the motorola L7389 which I hoped I'd pair with my palm IIIc and latterly to the N95 which I nearly blogged with. I did use lifeblog a lot though. Now I have the tools from my iPhone you might get the thoughts which are too big for Twitter and I thought might go to tumblr. We shall see.

I've turned off the auto delicious posting to this blog at long last. It was too much of a crutch, encouraging me avoid actual blogging. Hopefully that will mean I'll actually write some proper posts here for a change. In other notes the book is coming along well now, the end is in sight.

• Awesome craneporn from Liebherr
  Big cranes lifting big things in pretty settings
  (tags: craneporn crane liebherr)

• THINK / Musings :: firef.ly goes public beta
  Realtime conversation app, talk to others based on reading the same web page. Reminds me of earlier work we did at the BBC, but better connected to the rest of the internet, eg message followers on twitter to encourage chat.
  (tags: firef.ly realtime_chat)
• http://netlab.gmu.edu/networkbench/NWChoice.php
  collection of network analysis tools
  (tags: network_analysis social_graph visualization)
• Yellow Camp iCal Actions | Automator World
  Wondering where the iCal actions from srcleaves have gone, his domain is unrenewed.
  (tags: yellow-camp ical automator mobileme)
• Country, the city version: Farms in the sky gain new interest - International Herald Tribune
  The potential for farms in highrise buildings, interesting idea, as cities get denser.
  (tags: city farming environment)
• Cyberpunk - The Dark Genre
  seemingly mostly complete texts from William Gibson and others, plus other articles
  (tags: cyberpunk william_gibson)
• Sam Johnston: Apple iPhone 2.0: The real story behind MobileMe Push Mail and Jabber/XMPP Chat
  Evidence for XMPP pubsub as the background for MobileMe, as I'd hoped / suggested
  (tags: xmpp pubsub mobileme iphone applescript)
• http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2006/ashopl.pdf
  Report on the history and direction of AppleScript, a 40 page PDF, full of interesting detail
  (tags: applescript history apple pdf)