People?

I will never understand the need for people to bother other people. I
am sitting next to the window on my lunch break eating my turkey
sandwich. I am trying to enjoy my break. The room has a huge capacity
and is barely filled with people. So these two people decided to come
and sit directly behind me. What the fuck is wrong with you people.
Their are plenty of seats. If you wanted to sit next to the window
there are plenty of window seats too. Worst of all the damn lady is
talking about some giant needle her husband had put in his chest here
at the hospital. Seriously people what is wrong with you.

Update:

they both received phone calls from unnecessarily loud cellphones, and are both talking on their phones in two seperate pointless conversations....I moved across the room.
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Dweebed?

Update on Dweebed:

we have been kind of keeping Dweebed on the back burner for a while for a couple of reasons. Steve has had a lot on his plate and has been really busy with all his stuff and since he does like 90% of the work on the site i have been unable or really not willing to try and add some stuff to the site. we are working to bring a new design to the site and change a few things to hopefully attract some more people to the site.

Old Google Searches?

one of the more frustrating things about searching for information on the internet is when for instance a piece of information is widely excepted and therefore is the only thing one can find. am example of this is today i wanted to try and figure out a way to stream music from my itunes to my iphone(should already work, but doesn't for some dumb reason). almost everyone says to try SimplifyMedia. well thats fantastic except for the fact that the company has removed the app from the appstore and stopped supporting the app for their servers. the public announcement goes like this,

"After developing the technology behind Simplify Media for over 4 years, it is time for us to take it in a new direction. In order to focus on this transition, we will no longer be offering the current software to new users. Today we are removing the Simplify iPhone applications from the App Store, and new account creation will be disabled shortly after that. However, existing Simplify accounts and clients will continue to work fine."

so since most of the internets say that i should use an app that no longer exists, there is no other viable option available, since everyone agreed that was the best way. its not like someone is going to go around the web and inform everyone to update their 3 year old blog posts that the app doesn't exist any longer. so now the giant series of tubes that is the internet are all clogged with inaccurate data leading me to just give up on yet another technology adventure.

Blog Post?

i wish i could write a book. i feel like i have some great ideas, but whenever i start to write, i am like "this is terrible, a 5 year old could type something up that is more coherent". so i inevitable give up and feel like a failure for even trying. so ya. wish my xbox wasn't broken.

also for the very few who visit this site, i also updated my site to a more pleasing color and template. now people wont get nauseated while reading, or look away and see those squiggly after marks from looking at mono-colors too long.

AppleTV Syncing Issues?

What a mess. I have an AppleTV and a 2TB drive full of media. What I want to do is have an easy way to stream all of my content to my AppleTV so when I move into my apartment anyone can watch whatever they want on the AppleTV at any point in time. But of course there are 4 problems that are keeping me from achieving this.

1. I could plug the hard drive into a computer and stream it through iTunes on that computer. Problem is I only have a laptop. So if I ever want to go anywhere with my computer no one can view content on the AppleTV.
2. I could use the usb drive on the back of the Airport router from apple and stream everything that way. Problem here is the transfer rate is insanely slow. Like unbelievably slow. So because it is so slow it is not only painful to add content to the drive, but the artwork for the content takes a very long time to load on the AppleTV. Plus this also requires me to have iTunes open on my laptop at all times, and have my laptop on the network at all times.
3. I could do what I am doing now in my parents house, and have a stationary computer dedicated to running iTunes for the AppleTV. However I cannot afford to just buy a mac mini (because I am not using a windows machine).
4. I could use the USB port on the back of the AppleTV by hacking the device. Only problem here is the app used to hack the usb port, nitotv, no longer exists. All of the How-To websites tell me to use this app that no longer exists, which is extremely frustrating.

It just seems like all this could be solved if apple stopped treating the AppleTV like a damn hobby and make it work to its potential. Stop forcing me to tether the device to one computer. Especially when that one computer is a laptop that is not always there to allow for streaming. Or apple could stop being little bitches about that damn usb port on the back and let me expand the storage beyond the measly 160 GB they have internally.

The Apple iPad?

Apple's newest product had more hype behind it than anything i can remember to date. so many expectations and hopes for a product that frankly was inevitable. for the most part i am satisfied with the product. i am not disappointed and i am not excited. just satisfied. i feel as though they filled that gap between smartphone and laptop rather well with this product. granted i am only making this opinion on what i have read and seen online. the product is still 60 days from shipping but i am waiting anxiously to hold one.

my main concern with a product like this was how am i going to type on it? apparently the on screen keyboard is fantastic. the keyboard dock is an awesome idea and will make the tablet style much more tolerable.

honestly i was totally unimpressed by the product until steve announced the pricing. i was floored. this device starting at $499. the kindle DX is the same price and is crap compared to this. nothing even comes close to this product, although technically apple just created a whole new class of device. it makes everything that just came out at CES look like junk. which makes this whole thing even better. time will tell if they will get any stiff competition (but they undoubtably will).

Whenever anyone buys a new product the one thing that should always be going through their minds is "is there going to be support for this product?". for instance, a game console is whether or not their will be games. or a music player on whether or not their will be music for it. whats really cool about the iPad is that their is already 140,000 things to do immediately out of the box. the inclusion of the ability to run apps from the app store is essential.

The potential for the iPad is immense. for instance the medical field. if a company were to write and app that allows for monitoring and diagnosing patients for this 10 inch multi-touch screen, it would be a godsend for the industry. the iPad is just the right size to be carried around and with a 10 hour battery life it is plenty to make it through a shift. plus they start at $499 so they are extremely affordable for the medical industry that already spends millions on computing devices.

Apple has succeeded in my opinion of creating a whole new class of product here. one with unlimited potential abroad a dozen different spectrums. once these things get out into the real world i'm sure people are going to fall in love with them.

iPhone OS 4.0 List

Some of the things i would like to see in the next iPhone and its OS.

Send MMS messages over wifi.

i work at a hospital. most of my time i am either walking through lead walled hallways or i am in the basement with no service. however they do have wifi. so allow me to send MMS over the wifi. i do not see the problem with it. right now if i want to send a text to someone i have to use google voice. since it requires me to have a new number it gets messy, so just fix this AT&T.

Built in photo tools such as sepia, black & white, frames, ext.

on even the most basic of phones the ability to take a photo in sepia or black and white is available. i mean even on the ipod nano now they allow filters during video recording. why not bring that technology to the iphone.

Ability to listen to ipod music in background regardless of the app.

i cant tell you how many times i have started up fieldrunners to find my music stop playing. i end up just not playing that game simply because i cant listen to my own music during it. make ipod music a background option across the board please.

View faces within contact app and messages app

this one seems like a no brainer. allow me to see the image of the contact within the contact app and also the messages app.

Take messages app information off the phone

their are MMS sessions i would love to have copies of off of my phone. to show what someone said, or give someone a reference point of a convo.

Allow for Disk mode an Bluetooth information transfer

its a hard drive with a screen. they allow it on the ipod classics, so why not allow the iphone and ipod touches disk mode. also since bluetooth is so fast why not allow for quick bluetooth transfers of information between devices or between itunes.

New map types like overlays

Apple just recently purchased a maps company called Placebase. mainly because Apple and google are becoming rivals in almost every industry the two companies participate in. so it is only natural that they part ways. since the iphone uses google maps they needed a new source. hopefully the new maps company will allow for a new kind of mapping on a device. such as overlays like weather or traffic. even weird custom ones like 3G coverage or killer bee migration.

iCal location search

when i sync ical information to my iphone sometimes i will have location information within an event. yet when i click on the location nothing happens. i feel like it should jump into the maps app and show me directions.

Stream content from itunes to iphone

there is an app that allows an iphone to control an itunes library which is nice. but i want to be able to stream content from my itunes library to my device. for instance i want to watch a TV show in bed on my iphone and done feel like going and sitting in my chair to enjoy it. why not have an app that streams the content so i can enjoy it anywhere in the house.

Queue up texts

i would really like to queue up texts so when my phone gets service it automatically sends them. instead of playing the game were i stare at my phone until i see the little ...searching to go away.

Aluminum case

i love the aluminum casing on the 1st gen iphone. i have always felt that the 3G and the 3GS plastic casings felt a little cheap for an apple product. so it would be really nice if they could find a way to get back to the anadized aluminum look. i know that the reason they dont is simply due to thermal considerations, but if they could make it work i would be uber excited.

Lock screen change

the lock screen is just not good enough. it should have way more customization on what can be viewed. more details of texts and emails, and even widgets like weather or stocks.

App navigation

i have 8 screens of apps. it is quite a hassle getting to the 8th screen. their should be some kind of expose of the screens or something. much like what Ocean Observations came up with.

FLASH

it has been done to death, but seriously apple. you and adobe have a great relationship together make this work!

Remove apple apps or at least hide them like nike plus

Stocks, weather, compass, and voice memos are all apps i do not use. and even if i did i would download a much better app on the app store to do the job. make them hide able just like nike plus is.

Flash for the camera

Apple was recently quoted buying a ton of LED flash bulbs. so they will probably be putting flash into the next phone. i'm hoping the logo is what flashes. would be so sweet!

5 MP camera with HD video Recording

i want the camera to be amazing. the processor can handle the HD it is just a matter of fitting a sensor into the phone and making it affordable.

Multi-tasking

the palm pre does it and still manages to have mediocre battery life. it sure would be nice.Ocean Observation came also came up with a cool multi-tasking view.

TV Dinner Scalding Suit?

Why do microwavable dinner companies insist on putting the instructions for cooking their "meals" on the bottom of the containers? almost all "meals" consist of two cooking periods. so the 2 choices the consumer has is either memorize the instructions beforehand, or run the risk of spilling scalding hot food on their face because they had to lift the dinner above their heads to read them.

Serious iPhoto Flaw

Here is the problem i have. when i import videos into iphoto from a camera and/or my iphone. they are labeled as img_1809 or MVI_3406. no problem for iphoto because in that app filenames are unimportant because titles are used. i edit all the titles of my photos/videos for my own organization and for my windows family members within iphoto. the problem is when i want to stream those videos to my TV or i want to convert the .AVI to MP4. when i drag those videos into itunes so they will sync to my TV, the filenames show up and because IMG_1809 does not chronologically fit with 2009-01-150, which is my labeling system the videos are all out of order. i tried exporting them so the titles would now be the filenames, but by doing that i lose all the metadata. because iphoto doesn't know how to permanently tag mete-data to video files. so i cant do that if i want to keep the info on when the video was taken. there is a batch re-namer within iphoto but it does not batch change the filenames, only the titles. so now i have 2 years of videos that i can not watch on my TV or anywhere else actually because i cant change the filenames without loosing the metadata. why doesn't TV read the title information of these files, not the filenames. that would at least give me a temporary fix. i think the only option left is to call an apple genius and see what they have to say. or drive to the nearest store because this is frustrating and is virtually impossible to google search.

Possible Fixes

• Allow batch filename changes within iphoto
• conserve metadata while exporting videos from iphoto
• TV read titles instead of filenames

Smoking Ban

Michigan is going Smoke Free may 1st, 2010. meaning that no longer will people be allowed to smoke in public places. personally i hate smoking. it is one of those things that i simply do not understand. let me breath smoke into my lungs so it makes me happy? doesn't make any sense to me. but i digress, so i am happy the ban is going into affect. however if we look at this from another direction it is really dumb. it is just another case of government taking rights away from people. if anything now it will cause that rebellious behavior and push the use of tobacco up. it boggles my mind that people cant smoke a cigarette outside of their house now but yet drinking is still allowed just about anywhere. even though smoking only effects the person ingesting it, but drinking can cause horrible destruction when people under the influence decide to go get some TB.