Last week, I posted a video full of iPhone tips [No longer online —Ed. 2015-08-13] on HowTube. More tips to come soon.
Author: Mark Boszko
Mark is easily distracted and seems not to require sleep. However, this is an illusion. He is mortal, like you. Perhaps doubly so. He makes videos and a little bit of art and design. He also watches way too many movies and jokes around on Twitter.
iPhone Points
So far, the iPhone is 95% joy, and 5% infuriating. Some of the high (and low) points: It’s incredibly scratch-resistant. Bluetooth hands-free headsets work incredibly well. Well, at least my JawBone does. No to-dos. Ta-da Lists have a nice iPhone-specific interface now, but I still want some sort of OmniFocus-like GTD task list for this…
The iPhone Line
Out of many possible locations near me, I picked the AT&T store in Silver Spring, MD to wait in line, hopefully to acquire an iPhone. I picked AT&T instead of Apple mainly due to Steve Jobs’ earlier comment about fewer people probably being at the AT&T stores. This one was closest to my work, but…
Morale-O-Meter
PXC Drawing Boot Camp, Week 01
Taking a drawing class through PixelCorps this summer, with instructor Ian McCaig. First assignment was a self-portrait, and this is my 2nd try at it, with Ian’s suggestions to take a photo, turn it upside down, and draw from that. I was surprised at how it turned out.
A Discussion About HD Video Disc Formats. Presented in Glorious Adium Transcript-O-Vision!
mboszko 22:38:40 Oh, finally picked a horse in the HD disc format race. 22:39:43 Costco had an instant $100 rebate on one of the Toshiba HD-DVD players, so I picked it up, along with a Jet Li movie. That was my “Father’s Day” gift from everyone. 22:40:00 Oh, crap. 22:40:09 I just realized I don’t…
MacBook Pro Screen Looks Drunk
So, I’m noticing over the weekend, parts of my screen look… fuzzy. Like out of focus. Like perhaps the whole glass-LCD-backlight thing has gone out and partied and had a bit too much to drink— like throwing-up-in-the-gutter, epic levels of alcohol intake— and the next morning it wakes up and says, “crap, I really still…