Cro-mag rally
Texas Hold’em
Enigmo
Mahjong Software
Sudoku
Aki Mahjong
Jirbo Break
Aqa Forest
Bomberman
Disney’s All Star…
Bejeweled2
Super Monkey Ball
Etch A Sketch
FileMagnet
Atom in a Box
iLingo
Fingertip Sports
Crosswords
Chimps Ahoy
iZen Garden
Frisbee Golf
Bubble Bash
Bubble Bay
Omni Focus (I want, but $20?)
Mr Sudoku
Apps listed in the App Store Top Free Apps Category
Apple Remote
AIM
NYTimes
TypePad
Facebook
Urbanspoon
Twitterrific
Bloomberg
Mobile News Network
AOL Radio
Yelp
Frommer’s SanFrancisco
Eventful
Pandora Radio
eBay Mobile
Pocket Express
Jirbo Match
Shazam
Sports Tap
NetNewsWire
Mobile Banking (Bank of America)
Whrrl
SourceForge (odd?)
Google Mobile
British Airways Flights
Just downloaded and installed an app from the Iphone App Store.
Its basically the installer app, but it asked for my Apple Store password.
App installed nicely, but app says “The appication “AIM” cannot be opened”. Maybe it requires a new 2.0 build.
Back to browsing the offerings! Wish I had a screen capture app installed on my 2.0 phone.
I’m looking forward to messing around with this.
I also created a googlegroup for anybody who is interested in these bots.
robophilo@googlegroups.com
OK, so now that iphone with update 1.1.1 supports video-out and Microoptical now renamed as “MyVu” is introducing a $199 video headset that supports new ipods (they list the touch, but not the iphone) it’s possible that we have the makings of a very cool wearable computer. I’ll be waiting eagerly to find out if the iphone will be supported, and regular display activity will be sent to the headset (not just video). Please let it be true.
Check out this link for the MyVu Solo Plus
A few years ago during my Six Sigma training at Wunderman (a long story in itself) I ran across TRIZ which is abbreviated Russian roughly translated as: Theory of inventive problem solving.
You can read all about triz here.
I found it fascinating, especially because it put inventing in much more practical terms. The creator, Genrich Saulovich Altshuller worked in a russian patent office and over the years observed pattern in invention. He cataloged these patterns, and shared them with the world. Most of them related to mechanical engineering, but you can see how these are still applicable today. In fact TRIZ is often studied by people as part of the DFSS (Design for Six Sigma Process). Many of these patterns involve contradictions, for example: If we want more acceleration, we need a larger engine; but that will increase the cost of the car”.
OK so back the point - this first post in a series is just the hypothesis that this theory can be applied to what we are seeing daily (and hopefully participating in with this quick moving pace of internet technology. These patterns and contradictions a possible path to discovering the next great internet invention. Over the next few weeks I’ll be working on cataloging some of these patterns and contradictions for myself and whoever might stumble upon this blog. 
1. Regular mini headphone jack doesn’t fit my high end earbuds (Shure E500s). They are going to need an adapter just to work. Arrgh! Why bother using a mini, just use the standard stereo/mic plug that all the other stereo phones use? At least then I’d know it wouldn’t work without an adapter.
2. No copy paste? Thanks Apple for making me hate the keyboard even more while I’m setting everything up (had to enter my email address 6 or 7 times).
3. No chat client? WTF?
These last two can be remedied with a software update, but we are stuck with the unfortunate design choice of the headphone jack.
That all said I still love the device. The gesturing and UI are fabulous, except for the keyboard, which I’m getting used to, but don’t like very much.
So I’m experimenting again… This time with putting all my MP3’s, Photos and everything else that might sit on a home server online. I’m using AMAZON’s S3 service for everything but the photos, which a flickr pro account will manage better. I’m not sure how much its going to cost me a month yet, but S3 is really cheap, $.15 a gig a month or so.
Stuff is private except where I’m explicitly sharing (not mp3’s of course). I’m hoping it will give me more access to my media, without messing with accessing my home server, give me more redundancy without ballooning my personal hardware inventory. I’m also hoping it will help reduce my electric bills, as I’ll decomission an old PC that currently runs 24/7.
Best thing is I’ve got a sprint wireless broadband card so I can get access to my media pretty much anywhere as well.
I’ll let you know how my experiment goes…
I just did a search for Dunder-Mifflin on Linkedin.com, my favorite business social network. Low and behold - 3 people had added Dunder-Mifflin to their work histories. I wonder if it’s on their resume’s too?
Most people used Dwight’s title, Assistant (to the) Regional Manager, but I think there are a lot more characters deserving of some internet love.
I’ll be checking back in on this link to see if anybody else, “remembers” to add their short stints at that small paper company in Scranton, PA.
