Comments on: iPhone Experience http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/07/31/iphone-experience/ Michael Rawdon's webjournal Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:34:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Rawdon http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/07/31/iphone-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-5137 Michael Rawdon Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:50:33 +0000 http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/07/31/iphone-experience/#comment-5137 I found <a href="http://discussion.dreamhost.com/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=forum_troubleshooting&Number=86758&page=18&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=31" rel="nofollow">a useful post at Dreamhost on configuring an iPhone for their mail system</a>. Setting it up manually on my phone works great, now I just have to see how to set up account syncing to deal with the differences between iPhone mail and Mac OS X Mail. I found a useful post at Dreamhost on configuring an iPhone for their mail system. Setting it up manually on my phone works great, now I just have to see how to set up account syncing to deal with the differences between iPhone mail and Mac OS X Mail.

]]> By: Michael Rawdon http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/07/31/iphone-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-4692 Michael Rawdon Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:42:18 +0000 http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/07/31/iphone-experience/#comment-4692 I'm sure it will surprise neither of you that I thought of both the web and the e-mail solutions myself, but neither of them seems adequate to me. Both are significant steps backwards from just keeping my PDA, since it's been presenting a near-perfect solution to my want list needs for 8 years now: It has selection, copy-paste, immediate editing (if I find something while out and about that I want to remember for later, which happens more often than you'd think), syncing, editing on my desktop, and categorization. I think if I could just view and edit Notes in my desktop, and sync them to and from my phone, then that would be good enough. (Categories for the Notes would be nice, too.) But until then I expect I'll stick with my PDA. I’m sure it will surprise neither of you that I thought of both the web and the e-mail solutions myself, but neither of them seems adequate to me. Both are significant steps backwards from just keeping my PDA, since it’s been presenting a near-perfect solution to my want list needs for 8 years now: It has selection, copy-paste, immediate editing (if I find something while out and about that I want to remember for later, which happens more often than you’d think), syncing, editing on my desktop, and categorization.

I think if I could just view and edit Notes in my desktop, and sync them to and from my phone, then that would be good enough. (Categories for the Notes would be nice, too.) But until then I expect I’ll stick with my PDA.

]]> By: Subrata Sircar http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/07/31/iphone-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-4678 Subrata Sircar Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:28:51 +0000 http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/07/31/iphone-experience/#comment-4678 My proposed solution is just to email my lists to myself. I can always get my email, and it's not unreasonably slow, even on an Edge network. Editing the list is a pain anyway, since there's no select-all or cut-n-paste, so this shouldn't be that much worse. My proposed solution is just to email my lists to myself. I can always get my email, and it’s not unreasonably slow, even on an Edge network. Editing the list is a pain anyway, since there’s no select-all or cut-n-paste, so this shouldn’t be that much worse.

]]> By: John Keating http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/07/31/iphone-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-4439 John Keating Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:28:16 +0000 http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/07/31/iphone-experience/#comment-4439 Notes workaround... Use DreamHost to create a MediaWiki for yourself. Move your lists to the wiki and access it via Safari. This requires Internet access, though. Not guaranteed on a mobile... The lack of full syncing is rather disappointing (and surprising, as I'm pretty sure I can sync ReadOnly lists to my 4G iPod from Windows), though. That was definitely one area that PalmOS handled very well. Cheers, John Notes workaround… Use DreamHost to create a MediaWiki for yourself. Move your lists to the wiki and access it via Safari. This requires Internet access, though. Not guaranteed on a mobile…

The lack of full syncing is rather disappointing (and surprising, as I’m pretty sure I can sync ReadOnly lists to my 4G iPod from Windows), though. That was definitely one area that PalmOS handled very well.

Cheers,
John

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