My So-Called Life With iPhone • Week 2
Wow! I can’t believe it’s been two weeks since I got this thing. I can’t believe I tried to start writing this on my iPhone. I first tried to write it in Safari. That didn’t work too well. For some reason Safari wasn’t auto-suggesting anything in WordPress edit/post mode. Hmmm. Then I figured … okay I’ll try in iPhone mail and post via mail. That didn’t work too well either. No keyboard action in the horizontal mode. Even in the verticle mode I had ‘issues.’ Though that was more my shortcomings than iPhone’s. I’m still not to accomplished on the iPhone keyboard … yet. Unlike JoeyGadget A.K.A. Joe Hutsko, who wrote his most recently published feature article for MSNBC, about iPhone, on his iPhone. The first draft at least. I say kudos to that man and his presti-digital dexterity! You go Joe! I feel humbled and shamed. Oh well this too shall pass. Practice. Practice. Practice. But if someone was paying me to write an article … I’d hunker down too, and become accomplished in the presti-digital arts.
But there are people paying me. That’s part of what I’ve been doing the past two weeks. Setting up 4 new iPhones for clients. Most of them had a mish-mash of addresses in different phones, PIMs, mail applications & address books. This is how I plied my trade. I exported, synced, set up IMAP mail accounts on both their Macs & their iPhone. When it was all said and done … it is was beautiful thing. No more, “Damn, did I download that eMail to my desktop? Now I can’t see it on my phone. And I need it NOW!” That’s the wonders of IMAP. You see the same mail on every device you set up an IMAP account on. Desktop … check. Lapptop … check. iPhone … check.
In two weeks of use, I have some quibbles about iPhone. But for the most part, for what I need …. I’m in love. iPhone love! As a computer tech, and consultant, I use to carry around a HandSpring Visor all the time. (See I was always a Mac friendly early adopter. And that iMac translucent blue … to die for!) If I was at a client and I had to look up a password, or an IP address, I’d go to my address book & look up the info in their associated notes field. It was so much better than having to lug around my ancient PowerBook. I love that I am again able to update notes & they update to my desktop … no problem. I also love how elegantly all contact information is presented in iPhone’s address book. God … I’ve even taken to hunting down logos for companies and photos of clients and friends and adding them to my contacts. It’s just too easy on a Mac and now iPhone. But you knew that already. Hey …. I’m an ‘artist’ … so ‘the visual thing’ works for me! Oooow look …. pretty icons! 
Well … I need to go now. I need to get ready … I have a date with iPhone.
2 Responses
Joe …
Re: Note syncing …
I’m sorry for the confusion. I was talking about the “notes field” in iPhone contacts. For each contact there is a note field. When I change info there, it syncs back to my desktop Mac. I guess you were thinking of the Notes application … that might sync when they update the iPhone with OS X 10.5 … someday. But all good thing come to those who wait. And wait. And wait. See we got the iPhone didn’t we?
If I were MSNBC … I would have paid you! Especially for writing on your iPhone. Some people just don’t know how to compensate talent … or dexterity.
Is this a mutual admiration society here? 
Thanks for your comment.
Hey, Joe. Nice story. For the record, I wasn’t paid to write the story on the iPhone, literally on the iPhone, I mean. That was my idea, and a surprise to my editor when he got to the last line.
I wrote it in Email, and would “Cancel” the message many times so that it would offer to save it as a draft. I think there were only about 30 typos in total in the first draft, which weighed in at about 2800 words. The final story, which I edited on my MacBook, was about 1200 or so, I think. Maybe more. I’d have to check. Anyway, I’m curious: How do you sync notes? You say so in your story, but not how. As far as I know there is no Notes sync for iPhone. Yet. Or are you mailing them to yourself? Your fan, Joe