In the new 3.0 version of the iPhone SDK, it appears there is now a “find my iphone” service enabled via mobile me.
Apple Insider has more info here.
*sigh*
I guess I’ll take better late than never. Hopefully nothing bad will happen with my 3G iPhone until the 3.0 OS is deployed.
I think it is quite overwhelming and there is a lot of information.
Well, I went about a week+ to see how my life would be without the light of the iPhone. I was hemming and hawing quite a bit on whether or not get a new iPhone. Why? Here are the reasons:
So why did I break down and get a new iPhone last night? Here are the reasons:
Were there an positives of the old phone?
Final thoughts? Well, the week was rough but I made it. I was kind of disappointed that the Apple Retail Store dude didn’t know the product line. And yes, I locked my iPhone with the code and the erase after 10 retries so that I won’t have to worry about my data again.
Well, today I got my iPhone stolen.
To say that I’m angry doesn’t really tell the whole tale. I use the device for a lot. Hopefully at this point, I’ve disabled all the accounts/passwords/etc. that are on the device. Let me tell you. I’m feeling pretty stupid for not having the pin code + erase after 10 bad pins settings enabled. I really don’t like the idea that someone else can see all of my data.
But wait, you say, doesn’t AT&T already know if the phone is being used and can’t they triangulate to find them? Can’t Apple use the serial id of the phone to see when it’s connecting on a wifi hotspot? The answer is of course they could, but they don’t want to get into all the privacy violation scenarios (at least that is my guess). I can’t even do a remote wipe because it isn’t an enterprise phone. I thought the whole point of Mobile Me was that it would be exchange for the masses. Well, I’m part of the masses and not being able to do that just tweaks me.
Anyway, in the hopes that Apple/AT&T will actually put some procedures in place to find the device in the future, here is the relevant info:
| serial No. | IMEI |
|---|---|
| 7S726MT0WH8 | 011245002821849 |
Why so sad?
Let me list the causes:
I’m virtually last in my fantasy league with zero chance of seeing any return on my money.
The bears need a small miracle to make it to the playoffs.
Too many non Sunday afternoon football games. For example the bears played on last thursday and will not play again until Monday. The worst part of that is that they could be knocked out before their game starts with a Vikings win.
Anyway, I’ll be metaphorically doing some live animal sacrifice to ensure a positive outcome.
After looking phenomenal in the first quarter, the Chicago Bears managed to lose a very important game against the Minnesota Vikings. I was really annoyed when the announcer quoted coach Lovie Smith as saying “the Bears dominated the first half.” That being said, the coach (when questioned about going for it on 4th down with inches to the Goal) stated if you can’t make that play, you don’t deserve to win. Apparently, they didn’t deserve to win.
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I’m not sure of the exact firmware update, but at some point “Update All” was removed from the App Store. With apps updating all the time, it was incredibly annoying to have to click and wait for the app to download/install before being able to click again. With firmware 2.2 it appears that Apple has heard the pleas of all the users who have installed apps that appear to be heavily updated. To be sure, there are more updates than I would expect (and I know those iTasteWine users are anxiously awaiting more functionality), but that’s no reason to penalize people who want to update.
Anyway, I had four apps update yesterday and I used the “Update All” magic and the world was good again.
Well, the Bears (expectedly) dominated the Rams today and so it put me in a good mood about football. So much so that I watched the second double-header game on FOX and I wasn’t even drunk. As it turns out, that was a pretty good game between the two top teams (Giants and Cardinals).
As luck would have it, I was lucky to see that following the second game one of the best football movies was starting on one of the many HBO channels: The Replacements.
Why is this one of the best football movies? To be sure, almost every football movie (be it slapstick or otherwise) is pretty awesome. What I find special about The Replacements is that it is funny, with a little romance, and incorporates real people like John Madden.
Madden has so many great quotes that you can imagine him saying during a real broadcast (and no, I’m not referring to any turducken).
The fat Japanese player(ex-sumo) ends up catching a tipped pass and runs it down the field for a TD. Madden quote: “I love it when the fat guy scores. Because then you get a fat guy dance.” Madden isn’t exactly svelt so you get what I mean.
The kicker makes a big field goal and gets tackled by a defenseman (brilliantly acted Jon Favreau). Madden: “There’s an old saying in football. Don’t do anything great unless you can handle the congratulations.” What made this especially funny is that Pat Summerall didn’t get it. If you’ve watched them together (and sorry if you missed it, but they were officially split up several years ago), you know that Pat Summerall didn’t get it a lot.
This isn’t the first movie where Gene Hackman took an underrated sports team and motivated them for greatness. And I would be remiss if I didn’t say that Hoosiers had a lot of great quotes, but the subject here is football and the character is Jimmy McGinty. He motivates the QB by letting him know that “When the game is on the line, winners always want the ball.” Near the end of the film, after Falco(Keanu) return to play for the second half he points out to the replacement players “They have underestimated you. There is no tomorrow. And that makes you very dangerous people.” which is subsequently repeated by John Madden. And if you’re a Bond fan, you also know that though “Tomorrow never dies”, it sure can create some crappy movies.
I’ll give one more nod to Orlando Jones who plays a fast but incompetent wide receiver. When the key game is on the line, the coach covers his hands in glue and Orlando (Clifford Franklin) says: “I look like I just jacked off an elephant.” Trust me, it’s funny when you see it. Aside from that, his added value is acting like an idiot and teaching the team how to dance to Gloria Gaynor’s “I will survive”.
And without further ado…”Ladies and gentlemen, number 16 in your program, but number 1 in your hearts”. Keanu Reeves plays the funny, smart and all-around good guy Shane Falco. He really makes the movie believable (more even than Madden) because he plays football *and* knows how to lead the team. Perhaps my #1 movie quote (and I’m even including Heavy Metal in this) is: “Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. And glory…lasts forever.” Don’t get me wrong. Keanu has had some stinkers, but this movie was fresh and enjoyable and he was perfectly cast. To sum up Jimmy: “Greatness, no matter how brief, stays with a man.”
Now as might be obvious, I like movies and movie quotes. I mentioned that there were a lot of great football movies. In fact, I think most of them are great. So, for your nostalgic pleasure here is a list of them (in no particular order).
Now I may have missed someone’s favorite football movie, but in case someone thinks that absence of the name means it’s ok, I want to specifically flag the following crap football movies:
So I was a bit despondent over the Bears losing on Sunday. What cheers me up the most? Hard to say but I do like music (and by association musicals). So I went to my trusty DVR and fired up ‘Across the Universe’ mean I kept meaning to watch but was never in the right mood. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Sure there were going to be Beatles remixes. (I had heard some of them from iTunes previewing already). But beyond that I really didn’t know.
Well, I have to say that I was really surprised and delighted with the movie. They really integrated the music with the ’60s counter-culture story they were trying to tell. I don’t know if all the actors did their own singing (because the dubbing looked funny and hey, that could be the delay on my DLP tv), but I really liked the story and my mood definitely was more upbeat.
To summarize the ‘Beatles aspect’ of the movie, you basically have a British guy(Paul Sturgess) who looks exactly like Paul McCartney (or George Harrison, honestly they all looked very similar with that haircut back then) he is named Jude. So go figure, somebody sings ‘Hey Jude’. Oddly enough, the lead female was named Lucy but there was only ‘Lucy in the sky with diamonds’ in the credits. I guess it’s like of like the Queen musical ‘We Will Rock You’ where they didn’t know how to fit in Bohemian Rhapsody in the story so they just sang it at the end because everyone wanted to hear the song. There were also characters named Prudence, Sadie, Max, etc.
Also in the news lately is that Harmonix (the makers of Rock Band) and the Beatles have signed an agreement so that their music will be available in some type of game/learning device in about a year. I love their music so I think this is pretty exciting news. Even though half of them are dead, music lives on and the Beatles keep rocking.