Posted by: chibimagic on: January 27, 2009
I spent the day at work today rearranging the icons on my iPhone. After work I downloaded a bunch of new apps and got addicted to reading BBC news and best of Craigslist. It was a productive day.
Posted by: chibimagic on: October 13, 2008
Everyone’s talking about the report last week from the NPD group that says 30% of new iPhone customers in the US switched carriers, compared to 23% of all US customers during the same period. The report also says that of the switchers: 47% came from Verizon 24% came from T-Mobile 19 % came from Sprint [...]
Posted by: chibimagic on: October 3, 2008
The Obama ’08 iPhone app is surprisingly well designed. Graphics are good, layout is logical, and it’s useful too. One nitpick: news toggles between two grouped buttons labeled “National” and “Local”, and there’s a button next to local that initially says “State”. When you click on local, you choose your state, and this button changes [...]
Posted by: chibimagic on: October 1, 2008
I downloaded a Chinese ebook reader on my iPhone, and it looks absolutely horrid. I don’t know if this program just chose to use a font that’s not available on the iPhone, or all Chinese iPhone fonts in general, but it’s all over the place. Some characters are larger than others, some are bold and [...]
Posted by: chibimagic on: August 14, 2008
Why do iPhone apps look different everywhere? The name that shows up on my iPhone under the app’s icon is different from the name that shows up under the applications tab in iTunes, which is different from the name that the app calls itself when it opens… The icons are different too. It’s annoying when [...]
