iPhone 4 Opinions

Everybody has their opinions on Apple’s new iPhone so I figured why not put mine out there as well. If you aren’t interested in yet another post on the internet about the iPhone 4 then feel free to move along. On June 15, like hundreds of thousands of other people, I attempted to pre-order the iPhone 4. After a few hours I was able to finally get an order placed with Apple. That also means I was lucky enough to have mine delivered June 23rd instead of the 24th launch day. After spending the past 3 days with it only one word sums it up for me, amazing.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the new design when it was first leaked as I really love the shape and look of it before. So that is the first thing you have to get used to is a new shape in your hand. The new design is growing on me but I still miss the 3GS shape. The single most important thing that stood out to me was the new display. The second I plugged it into iTunes for activation I was blown away. The colors, icons, and text just look perfect. I had to pick up my 3GS and do some side by side comparisons and was just blown away. Everything on the home screen icons stand out so much more. Of course this does mean some of the icons look ridged or blurry as they either weren’t designed very well or compressed to much when saving. Notable is to look at the App Store icon vs the Apple Store icon in which the latter is extremely blurry vs the App Store. I’m sure Apple will release a new icon before long.

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Apple Macbook Pro

I’ve been looking at getting a Macbook Pro for awhile. Back in February I purchased a 24″ iMac for my first Apple Computer. I have loved it every day. The problem is now that I’m no longer working from home, I really need a laptop. I’ve never had a laptop before and have been fine but not anymore. So, Friday after work we drove the 2 hours to the Oklahoma City Apple Store to purchase a new 15″ 2.4Ghz Apple MacBook Pro. We drove up there as we will be heading to Kansas for Thanksgiving and I wanted it before leaving.

I have been so amazed by it. It really is a beauty. I’ve spent the weekend playing with it and getting it setup. I couldn’t have made a better choice with my first laptop then this one. I have a few things to get used to with using a laptop but I’m looking forward to it. Flickr Set

Hello Safari

For those who follow me on twitter you will know that I have been having some problems with FireFox on OSX. As I used FF on Windows I naturally loaded it up first on my iMac and didn’t really give Safari a chance. I have several extensions that I have used for awhile to make life easier when designing. I wasn’t ready to give up these extensions and still not. However, after using FireFox with no problems for a few weeks it started to crash often. This alone was a pain but then the keyboard would just stop responding inside FF. Did I switch yet? No, of course not. After the almost hourly crashes and daily keyboard not responding it started locking up my iMac to the point that I would have to perform a hard restart. So, as I was in the middle of client work and was having internet problems with my AT&T DSL and (mt) was having Grid-Service problems as well it was just a really off day. I finally had to force quit FireFox and just launched Safari instead.

At first Safari was a little different and I didn’t like it. In fact as I was changing some settings I was still eyeing the FF icon in the dock and kept thinking I would give it one more try, although I didn’t. After changing a few preferences I jumped back into client work as I really needed to get this design sent off. I was missing my extensions a little but overall Safari started to grow on me. I have found it to also be faster then FF which has been great. Best of all though is that it hasn’t crashed or locked up once. This alone makes it that much greater then FF. The only thing that really bothers me is that there is currently no way to middle click (button 3) to close tabs in Safari. I did find a ‘dirty hack’ that does this but I will just learn to do without it. I haven’t given the latest FF Beta a try (I’ve been meaning to, but haven’t gotten around to it) but will to see if this might solve my problems. If it doesn’t, I don’t think it will bother me much as Safari has been good for me.