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From the monthly archives: July 2009
Public enemy number one of the financial crisis, Bernard Madoff, is locked up in a federal prison in Butner, N.C. Although his punishment may not bring relief (or money) to those he scammed, there is a little more icing on the cake. The New York Post is reporting that fellow inmates are looking to rough him up a bit to beef up their reputation. According to a source for Post who has a relative locked up with Madoff, “Some of the guys were talking about smacking him around a little, just to get the notoriety of it.” Sadly, the flip side to the story is that not everyone in lock-up with him feels this way. Apparently, many view him as a stand-up guy for pleading guilty and not implicating anyone else. “He got a lot of respect from other inmates because he didn’t tell on anybody, he didn’t take everybody down with him,” the aforementioned source said. Regardless, he’s got it coming. I hope he and his cohorts enjoyed their years of living off the trust and fortunes of others, because for as long as a written history will be kept of this recession, he will be remembered as the scum he is.
It has been brought to my attention that the powers that be are looking in to recasting Futurama. This is unacceptable. Very seldom in the history of television has this worked out to the benefit of a show (be it voice actors or live actors) and this would not be one of those times. The voice talents of Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, and Lauren Tom are vital to the series and it would not be Futurama without them.
If you agree with me, please take 30 seconds of your life to sign the following two petitions and share them with your friends:
http://www.petitiononline.com/futura13/petition.html
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/futuramarecast/
Emoji Icons are a rather extensive set of icons (Emoji being the Japanese word for what we call emoticons or smilies) that are common in Japanese text messaging and web sites and are essentially have been standardized in Japan. They are available on the iPhone and are very fun to use, but it takes a bit of trickery to get them unlocked. Here’s a step-by-step on how to unlock them. Once unlocked, you can sent them in text messages, emails, or whatever else you can type on the phone and they will be viewable by anyone who has a phone or computer that supports them. Even other iPhone users, even if they haven’t done these unlocking steps themselves. So, without further ado, here’s how to unlock them:
- Install the “Spell Number” app at the iTunes App Store. Don’t worry, it’s completely free.
- Once installed, launch the app.
- In the box, type this exactly: 91929394.59
- As soon as you have that typed in, without doing anything else, press your ‘Home’ button.
- From your home screen, go to Settings -> General -> Keyboards.
- Choose International Keyboards, then scroll down to Japanese, click it, and turn on Emoji.
- That’s it! You’re done! Thought it might be harder? Too bad. You can delete the app now, unless you feel you need it for other purposes. Whenever you’re typing, there will now be a little icon on the bottom left to switch back and forth between Emoji and English (or whatever other languages you use).
Here’s a small selection of the 461 emoji icons now available to you:
There’s been a ton of talk about the big new features that everyone loves in the latest version of the iPhone
- Keyboard Updates
No, I’m not talking about landscape keyboard. Click and “hold” (don’t remove your finger) on certain keys, and you now get new options. It’s much easier to show than it is to explain, so here are two of the new options:
- Undo Typing
You typed something you didn’t mean to type. It happens. Instead of holding down that delete key, just give your phone a shake and it’ll pull up a nice little box asking if you want to undo the text.
- Linked Phone Numbers
You’ve probably noticed that if you get a text message, email, or visit a website that has a phone number on it, it looks like a web link. Click on it, and it will automatically call that person. So how could Apple improve on this? Click and hold the phone number and you’ll see. Now you’ve got the option to call the number as before, but also to send a text message to that number, create a new contact card for the number, or add it to a previously existing contact.
- LAUGHING OUT LOUD
However much I resist the urge, I still somehow let the letters “lol” be typed on my keyboard. No matter how many times I tried to get it to learn, the prior iPhone OS’s auto-correction demanded that the letters be in all caps. I don’t know about everyone else out there, but rarely if ever do I type the letters “lol” and simultaneously actually laugh out loud. As such, the appropriate way to type it would be lower case. There’s no need to shout it, when it really means something more along the lines of “hey, that’s kinda funny”. One of the first things I noticed when typing text messages is that Apple finally realized this and it now defaults to it’s lower case form.
- Closing Apps While They Open
Previously if you clicked an app to open it, even if accidentally, you had to wait until it fully loaded until you could then quit it. Especially with some games, this took a bit. Now all you have to do is press the home button and it immediately closes it. There’s not really a way to post a screen shot of it, so just try it out and see for yourself.
I hope you learned a little something new about your phone with my list. Got something else you love that I missed? Feel free to share it in the comments.
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