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Archive for July, 2010
Our Apple Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Thinking Like the Intelligentsia and Love the iPad
Thursday, July 29, 2010 / Apple Culture, PowerMax Culture / 3 Comments
The idea for this article germinated as I once again struggled with our relatively new phone system. I say relatively new, because although we’ve had it in place for close to a year, I still have no real idea how to use it.
In fact, I would guess that most of our employees understand about 5% of the capabilities of the things. The phones feature LCD screens with menu options to infinity and beyond, and are graced with rows and rows of buttons, most of which remain unlabeled. And yet all the enticing features they offer to those willing to get a diploma in Business Phone 101 mostly go to waste because 95% of the time all we want to do is answer the damn phone. Read More »
iOS – 4.0 v.s. 4.0.1 Signal Strength Display Comparison
Friday, July 16, 2010 / iOS 4, iPhone / 2 Comments
Naturally we run a few iPhones around the office, and just for kicks we upgraded an iPhone 3GS to iOS 4.0.1 and ran a (totally unscientific) comparison on how the signal bar strength display differs with iOS 4.0.1 v.s. an identical iPhone 3GS running 4.0. Of course, the actual reception of the device is unchanged – this is just a cosmetic fix to more “accurately” display the signal strength.
Yeesh. Looks like the truth hurts: Read More »
