Wish I could get an iPhone 2.0

I wish I could get an iPhone 2.0 but like many places throughout the country, AT&T is not available. I live in North Dakota and the iPhone is unavailable. Like thousands of others, for some reason I watched the 24 hour live coverage on stickam.com via twitlive.tv and saw Leo Laporte and all of his friends including the great Woz (Steve Wozniak) one of the co-founders of the iPhone. 

I only watched a few hours of the coverage but it was really interesting, especially considering that it was all happening live and to find out about the news of how the sales were probably higher than expected or at least that’s what my impression was especially since their were problems for people activating their phones. It was said that you had to do it at the store but even I knew that was hogwash, since you can buy a phone on ebay and activate it home just by calling the carrier. It’s not like the cell phone stores have magical connections where cell phones are born or something. Come on!

Anyway it was also interesting to watch the live coverage and watch instantly as anyone who plugged their website on Leo’s show had their website crashed by everyone at once going to check it out. I was smart and started taking notes in Stickies (on the computer) and using del.icio.us to bookmark the pages (although the later didn’t work as well). 

I also made a personal goal to get 500 people following me on twitter.com and and I will be following at least that many people, I am now just over 150 or so and have a long way to go, so if you want, you can add me by going to twitter.com/djstangl

That’s all for now.

Kim Komando is a moron

The radio host Kim Komando is a moron. If you need proof, just listen to her show. If you are into technology at all you will know she is a totally worthless excuse for a radio host. You should instead listen to someone who knows something about technology, like Leo Laporte or Chris Pirillo or anyone else who has more brains than Kim. 

Okay, I am not being sexist I’m just trying to let people know that this woman is a moron.

Here is some more proof. Go to this blog and read more views of people who think she’s incompetent. People may say right away in defense of her that she’s the greatest thing ever. Do I care, no. I can have my own opinion and you can say that I am a moron, and that’s fine but I’m just expressing my opinion. I have a right to do that, it’s called the First Amendment.

Fluid, the best new application for Mac OS?

I heard about an application called Fluid on a the MacBreak Weekly podcast. I think I actually heard of it before this but I will give Andy Ihnatko (I hope that’s how you spell his name) credit. 

At first I thought big deal an application that turns websites or urls into an application. But then I downloaded and tried it. So far my only gripe is that the icons it uses when creating the application are really bitmapped but who cares I can change the icons. 

I actually created a WordPress application, so when I want to go straight to wordpress I can just launch the application and start blogging after I log in to the site.

There are a bunch of other things that this app can do, I literally just downloaded it a few minutes ago so I will have to play with it first to find out what else it can do, but so far I am impressed.

The best part is that this is freeware.