Posts Tagged iphone
iPhone 3.0 Firmware Update
Posted by will in ideas, technology on June 29th, 2009
Holy cow — the new iPhone 3.0 OS is so advanced I can now delete multiple pictures! But wait, there’s more: I can delete multiple pictures mounted from my desktop, too! Back in the old 2.x days it would RESET THE IPHONE when trying to delete two or more pictures at once.
On top of that, the photos show up in chronological order! How snazzy can you get?
There’s a Pulitzer, or Emmy, or Nobel, in there somewhere.
All kidding aside, it’s a nice new feature set.
- You can also search all your content (drag left from the home-home screen, or hit your home button just one more time, to open the Search interface).
- There’s a voice-memo application now, too.
- And with iPhone OS 3.0 you can now see how long your phone conversations have been. Plus, you know more than just who called, but which phone number they called from (instead of just ‘Diode’ it says ‘Diode / mobile’). Sweet!
- Double-tap just about any text and you get a little select-o-rama interface. Drag the ends where you want them, then tab ‘copy’ and now you can paste it anywhere text is allowed. Nice!
Steve Jobs’s Stanford Speech
Surfing for information on the iPhone I ran into this 2005 commencement speech [ watch | read ] by Steve Jobs, given at Stanford. He included several wonderful snippets, including these:
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work — and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
…and perhaps the most poignant:
If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?
He also talks about how being ousted from Apple was good medicine for him, though bitter… that it led to many wonderful consequences, and helped him see his priorities anew. Steve Jobs definitely sees things through his own eyes.
He also makes iPhones.