I was thinking earlier this week, mostly thanks to various happening things (and the answer to the question posed therein, by the way, is only in physics but not often in biology—evolution for example is often deeply misunderstood by SF writers) how much of what we have in our hands was science fiction only ten, maybe 15 years ago and yet we still haven’t got a moonbase, and how my MacBook Pro was still sitting at Jenny’s place unloved, which is a real shame because it is a very lovely thing (and I’ve called her ‘Guinevere’, by the way, for reasons that don’t concern us) and how utterly cool it is that I am able to edit and produce a podcast using the software that comes with it for LabLit and who I could get to voice the intro (I have a candidate but need to ask her at my birthday party on Tuesday) and then I started, this afternoon that is, not last week because in the meantime I’ve gone up to Lincoln to say hello to my girls and then while I was thinking about the podcast Eva gChatted me and we talked about how she guessed I’d be be going to SciFoo ’09 (which I am, if I can save enough geld for the airfare); and then I was charging the first cool gadget I got on returning to the UK (within 24 hours of landing, in fact), and suddenly was moved to ask the entire world
Why is bluetooth on the iPhone so shit?
Dear readers, he really DID ask that out of the blue:
me: Then Bill Bryson
Oh dear, I really AM full of ideas
Richard: you are
(Why is bluetooth on the iPhone so shit?)
The context really doesn’t help.
The context doesn’t help, but we mentioned a Certain Personage’s name in hushed tones. I’m still trembling from the thrill.
It’s shit by design: Apple have specifically disabled all file sharing unless it goes through iTunes. You can turn Bluetooth on on your iPhone all you like but it will never, ever be able to communicate with your Mac – they’ve only left the functionality for a few things like hands-free in your car. This means you always have to travel with a cable — a real pain the ass.
To be fair you need a cable for charging, but yeah. Definite pain in the donkey.
TED Talks. David Pogue: Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone
Further info.
Seems to be broken, Graham: it won’t play here (although it will on your blog).
Yup, I was going to ‘moderate’ my post after I realised that NN doesn’t support TED media (where are you MT4?) but figured that anyone interested would click on the link instead, so left it as it was.
But NN does support Vimeo etc. content.
TED Talks. David Pogue: Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone from Graham Steel on Vimeo.
Not on my iPhone though.
Now, I’m looking forward to version 3 of the iPhone OS.
Bluetooth is for nice, Canadian-designed, portable thingies named after fruit. 100% fact. Of which I own this many:
noneOh, by the way, Happy Birthday. Did I get the day right, or am I off by a week or two?
Yes.