I used to have a Blackberry and found it extremely useful. Last year and the early part of this year I made do with a normal phone as I wasn't ever too far from an internet connection. Amongst other things my circumstances have changed recently. Discovering that Verizon was ripping me blind and that the iPhone plan gave me more for less, I bit.
Image from Information Architects Probably a bad time to purchase as the iphone 2.0 is due out soon, but whatever; either way I have found it useful already.
Like most of these things they are not necessarily for everyone, but I needed seamless email integration anywhere. The interface for the iphone which let me connect up to gmail through the main email interface is excellent. The most useful part of the phone for me.
I put all my music on it, but the iPod (or nanoPod, I have both of several generations) is a better form factor for music playing. Enough that I will still use my nanoPod at work to listen to music rather than the phone. So the iphone has limited utility there.
The browser component is far, far, superior to the same functionality on the blackberry and will come in handy when I am travelling; Which is when I need that type of thing most.
The contacts list is also written for the modern technorati and integrates with web functions. Rather than a phone list - like it is on most phones, it allows you to express a contacts web persona or personality with multiple emails etc. Hitting the contact's page means multiple forms of communication are a click away; txt, voice or email. It is well done.
The voice mail is very useful as well. It is like playing a wav file. I would let multiple voice mails build up on prior phones as it was a pain to log in, go through them one by one, hit 7, hit whatever, go through the voice activated interface; ugh. The computer screen paradigm works very well with voicemail.
One of the downsides of the iphone is that it doesn't hold charge well. It sucks the juice quickly, more quickly than other PDAs I have had in the past.
All in all it is an excellent piece of functional equipment that I have found useful immediately.
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Most Popular Restaurants in Phoenix
Phoenix Eats Out is the restaurant review site for
Phoenix,
Scottsdale and
Old Town Scottsdale which lists the modernist and contemporary restaurants, taverns and bars in the greater Phoenix area.
This is the list of the most popular restaurants pages from phoenixeatsout.com that have been viewed the most;
My personal favourite restaurants in Phoenix are
AZ88,
Postinos,
Bomberos with
Grazie,
Humble Pie,
Orange Table,
The Vig,
Fez and others coming close behind. View the complete list with the photo-journalistic style images on
phoenixeatsout.com
Most Popular Hikes in Arizona
Arizona is an outdoor state and has lots of hiking in the city and around the state. Phoenix is unusual for most cities in having several large mountains in the center of the city with great hiking. Anyone who comes to Phoenix has to do the
Echo Canyon trail on Camelback and the
Summit Hike on Squaw Peak or Piesta Peak. The views of the city, suburbs and surrounding mountains are wonderful from Camelback and Piesta Peak.
For more experienced hikers there is the McDowell Mountains in North Scottsdale that has several difficult and strenuous hikes in
Tom's Thumb and
Bell Pass. Alternatively, you can hike the highest mountain in Arizona. At 12,600 feet
Humphrey's Peak is a long and difficult hike.
Alternate Australian Constitutions
Between 2004 and 2009 this site,
southsearepublic.org, was a constitutional blog based on scoop which focused on Australian and global constitutional issues.
One of the strongest aspects of it was the development of constitutions by those involved in the blog. These constitutions are the outcome:
The constitutions were built using principles from Montesquieu's separation of powers, the enlightnment's universal political rights and the ancient Athenian technology of sortition and choice by lot.
Archives For South Sea Republic
South Sea Republic started in 2004 as an Australian constitutional blog in 2004 based on scoop software. It was an immigrative outgrowth of Kuro5hin. The archives for each year since then;
The articles are ordered by views.
Who Is Cam Riley
I am an Australian living in the United States as a permanent resident.
I am a software developer by trade and mostly work in Java and jump between middleware and front end.
I originally worked in the New York area of the United States in telecommunications before moving to Washington DC and
working in a mix of telecommunications, energy and ITS. I started my own software company before heading out to
Arizona and working with Shutterfly. Since then I have joined a startup in the Phoenix area and am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I do a lot of photography which I post on this website, but also on flickr. I have a photo-journalistic website which lists
the modernist and contemporary restaurants in phoenix. I have a site on the
Australian Flying Corps [AFC] which has been around since the 1990s and which I unfortunately
lost the .org URL to during a life event; however, it is under the
www.australianflyingcorps.com URL now.
The AFC website has gone through several iterations since the 90s and the two most recent are
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2004-2002) and
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2002-1999) which are good places to start.
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