Several observations and thoughts.
- Twitter is far more useful/entertaining with an iPhone. I've tried a couple of apps and find TwitterFon to be the best of the free ones. The only bad thing is the browser for TwitterFon seems to crash or stall quite a bit. But now it's fun to read the stream of brain dumps on my iPod. On my computer? Not so much. Even with something like Twhirl or TweetDeck.
- The iPhone needs push for third party applications already! This was promised in September but neither hide nor hair has been made of it as of late. What I really want is the AIM app to have a little badge telling me if someone's been chatting/texting me while I've had the app closed. You also need to be able to turn it off on an app-by-app basis. All I really need pushed is Mail and AIM. I don't especially need the App Store telling me when updates are available since I'm pretty anal about that already. (I get frustrated when I see that no new updates are available.)
- The season premiere of Lost was incredible. It continues the trend of each season being an almost completely different kind of show. The only blemishes where the appearances of Bernard and Rose. Someone/something needs to kill those annoying motherfuckers. Maybe they'll time travel back to when some polar bears were still on the island and it'll eviscerate the whiny pricks. At least Claire is nowhere to be seen... Can't stand her either.
- I wish there was some way to see when new episodes of my favorite shows where on. You know... other than watching TV/having TiVo? Apparently I've missed two episodes of the Office. Hulu to the rescue!
- I've rented Valkyria Chronicles, but I'm not sure if I'm going to play it. I've had Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for several weeks and I still haven't played more than an hour of it. It's not because I don't want to, it's just that the only thing I've been using my 360/PS3 for is watching video. Which brings me to another point: Why do I necessarily have to sign-out of my account when watching video just so I don't have to see pop-ups telling me who is online or whatever? Why isn't there an option when viewing video to tell people that you're busy and to turn off notifications? Going and setting online availability to "appear offline" is a hassle too.
- I desperately need a new computer -- and I don't mean just for gaming! Everyday tasks like watching video online or using Word or iTunes is slow as hell. That my tiny little iPod is probably more powerful than my computer is pretty pathetic. After I have my TV/PS3 paid off, a new PC will be my next big investment. Gotta have something to play Diablo III and StarCraft 2, right? I wonder if either of those will be out by the time Windows 7 comes out? I'm also hoping the prices on an Intel i7 system come down too. Who needs a 3 GB limit for RAM anyway?
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