Articles by Foo Fighter
Agonizing abdominal pains are being felt across the globe today as the world laughs hysterically at Windows Mobile. According to a report posted by Net Applications, iPhone accounts for .09% of the overall browser market, leaving Windows Mobile choking on Apple’s dust with .06%. Not a bad record for a device that’s only been on the market for less than two consecutive sales quarters, and Windows Mobile is how many years old now? Oh the humiliation.
Cheer up, Windows fanboys. At least you beat out the T-Mobile Sidekick. And that’s something to be proud of, right? Bwahahaha!
Now see here, you Yanks. This whole iPhone concept…it’s just not cricket. You plebes may fall victim to the seductive powers of Sir Steven Jobs, with his shiny expensive bobs and brickabrack, but we Brits are made of tougher stuff. You won’t find it so easy fobbing off your gadgety thingies on us, by Jove. Just look at the pittance of iPhone activations made since launching here in the UK, something like 26,500? Mere truffles, I tell you. The queen has more diamond studs in her dinner gown. Knickers!
Now do go on and take your toys elsewhere, or Parliament will have to reassess the terms its peace treaty with you and reclaim lost territory. We wouldn’t want to start an “incident” now would we? There’s a good chaps.
Rakesh Agrawal’s 3 year old daughter devised a clever means for watching instructional videos on her father’s iPhone using common refrigerator magnets to mount the device on the fridge. Positioned for just her height, the industrious little scamp uses her iPhone to learn Yo-yo techniques by watching How-to videos from Veronica Belmont of Mahalo Daily. I’m betting Mom and Dad won’t be so proud once the 3 year old realizes her invention is patentable and a lucrative product market, enjoying fabulous wealth while her parents are left staring at a empty refrigerator.
She’s not the only one learning lessons from Veronica. I kid…Veronica is awesome, and wonderfully entertaining. I’ve always enjoyed her ebullient personality since her days at C|net, co-hosting Buzz Out Loud and Crave. She’s in my Facebook and Pownce friends lists for a reason.
Germans. You think you’re all so smart with your pickled cabbage, exotic sausages, fine Pilsners and now UNLOCKED iPhones? For just a few hundred Euros, you can waltz over to a computer, dock your iPhone, pay an unlocked premium fee through iTunes, and enjoy the privilege of using your iPhone on any wireless carrier you choose.
Well that’s all well and good, but just remember we Americans still poses the worlds most egomaniacal corporate CEO, Steve Jobs. Top that!
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God hates me. Nothing else can explain my recent steady string of bad luck. My plans to devote free time to writing, and my entire holiday, were derailed by a bout with food poisoning…or stomach flu (it’s not clear which is the culprit). While most of you were enjoying vast portions of poultry, piled on plates, and devouring drumsticks, I was in bed convalescing. I was struck down Wednesday evening and didn’t fully recover until late Saturday, and by that time my only goal was to salvage what was left of Thanksgiving. On the bright side, illness provided a way of avoiding family. Hallelujah!
So that was my week. Enough ruminating. Now for some good news - I freed up this whole bloody week to devote to blogging…and I am raring to go. Today will be a little spotty due to a couple meetings with clients (you know, that whole job thing), but from then on it’s off to the blogosphere. Provided of course God ceases his campaign to punish me. Was I Hitler in a past life? I thought having Vista running on my PC was punishment enough. sigh
Now, if you’ll all excuse me, I have to see a man about some wallpaper.
In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday here the US, I will be posting content tomorrow and throughout the remainder of this week. How’s that, you ask? Yes…well it seems the only free time I have for writing these days is when not working at my real job. The holiday provides the perfect opportunity to publish a backlog of content and reviews I’ve been hammering out. Plus it gives me something to do while digesting an explosive combination of Turkey and Aunt Clara’s lethally over sweetened cranberry stuffing - killing two birds with one stone, if you’ll excuse pun. So now you have something to cure both boredom and Turkey toxemia while visiting family and friends this week.
I’m still contemplating future plans for this site and whether or not to open it to volunteer contributions. Based on the email responses I’ve gotten most of you favor maintaining the status quo, but with me posting more content. I think you’re all just trying to drive me insane…it’s what I’ve suspected all along. To that end I plan on devoting more time to writing, and less time to work. Homelessness can’t be that bad…can it? We’ll see how this goes. Until then, have a wonderful holiday and be sure to check back here, in between second helpings of Mashed potatoes.
Welcome, dear readers, to another exciting installment of Free Wallpaper Friday, where I pass out free images like candy from a parade float. And this week I’m loading you up with a double does of sugary sweet wallpapers with a Holiday theme. Enough to kill a diabetic.
If you were expecting turkeys and cornucopias, you’re in for disappointment. I prefer more of a Christmas theme because frankly Thanksgiving is rather boring, and I’m sure that, like me, you’d rather stare a colorful Christmas tree on your iPhone screen rather than a Butterball Turkey? Am I right or am I right? Right then.
These aren’t my best submissions, but there are a few good ones to choose from. I’m partial to the snowmen image myself. But I will be rolling out some really magnificent Holiday walls in weeks leading to up Christmas
Download them after the jump. Oh, and…you’re welcome.
I post a story about iPhone coming to Commiland, and now Reuters steps in with news that iPhone’s arrival in China may be delayed by technical (read: Political) and fee (read: money under the table) issues. The gist of this delay centers around iPhone being locked, as apposed to Chinese phones which are unlocked and portable to any GMS carrier. Does anyone else besides me feel utterly ashamed and embarrased that communist mobile phones enjoy more freedom and liberty than our capitalist phones?
Maybe this Communism thing isn’t so bad after all… Capitalist pig!
Unlike most professional bloggers, I have a real job (snap!). I work as a self-employed freelance web designer and creative professional. A job that consumes most of my available time that would otherwise be devoted to writing. Since this site was incepted I have run it, literally, with one hand and four fingers tied behind my back. Each post I write is done with one remaining pinky finger, in the span of whatever free minutes I can spare each hour or afternoon. Even as time deprived as I am, I still managed to make this blog one of the most popular iPhone enthusiast destinations on the internets. Not a bad achievement for one person, but still woefully inadequate.
China Mobile Ltd., the country’s largest state run cell phone carrier, claims that it is in talks with Apple to bring iPhone to the land of cheap labor and censorship sometime next year. No agreement has yet been reached…so why bother making the announcement?
It’s only fitting. American jobs are being exported to China, so why not Steve Jobs? Get it…Steve Jobs, American Jobs? Heh? Oh never mind.
