Saturday, June 30, 2007

iPhone-O-Rama

So I have successfully resited the temptation and seductive lure of the iPhone. I even fondled one in person. It was tough not want to run out on dinner and go nuts with the credit card as quickly as possible. It’s an absolutely lovely device. Puts any other “smart phone” to shame. We just signed up for a two year torture plan with Sprint, so I won’t be getting one anytime soon. But in two years, I’ll be throwing down for the version 2.5 device so fast your head will spin.

Anyway, for the total nerds in the room who might be curious about such things, here is the User-Agent string for the iPhone as it surfs the IntarWeb:

IP Addy redacted - - [30/Jun/2007:18:06:40 -0600] “GET /images01/the-head.jpg HTTP/1.1” 200 95840 “http://www.ransom-note-typography.com/” “Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3”

“CPU like Mac OS X” Hmm. It’s an ARM processor in there. Which is probably the main reason why there is no Flash joy on the device yet. I don’t think Adobe has written a Flash player that will run on the ARM processor yet. But I’m guessing they will.

I wished I’d surfed to a site with QuickTime on it. I wonder how Safari on the iPhone handles QuickTime? Anyone out there with an iPhone want to go peek at a movie trailer at Apple and then get back to me? Since it can handle H.264 (the YouTube stuff), stands to reason QuickTime movies would be OK.

And Jon, I’m sorry if I got drool on your precious.

Favorite Entries

If you are new around here, the following entries have been reasonably well received. You might want to peruse these.

• Help Wanted
• From the Office of Mis-directed Email
• A Word from the Small Person in the House
• RNT Product Review: Chocolate Mix Skittles Left Me Sterile!
• Jon’s Report Card circa… A Long Time Ago
• Dear Gratuitously Naked Conversationalist at the Gym:
• A Peek Inside the Writer’s Guild and Producers’ Negotiations
• We Regret the Error
• Letters from a Homeowner to His General Contractor
• What I Did There
• Hermaphrodite Administrative Assistants and Receptionists Need Not Apply
• Giving Me an IM Account Was Obviously a Huge Mistake
• Official Ransom Note Typography Vista vs. Mac OS X Shootout
• I Need a Real Hobby
• Beat Down
• Big Fat Lies
• True Love
• Now MY Ovaries Hurt
• Don’t Get Her Started
• Disturbing Trend
• Had to do it
• Mooshy stuff
• Ransom Note Typography End User License Agreement “EULA”
• Diva-licious!
• Just so we’re clear
• PETA may have a point

Holy Crap! Look at all this STUFF down here. It's awesome!

Really, I'm glad you made it down here. Almost no one ever comes down here. I'm like in a freaking dungeon down here. I get lonely. But not you. YOU made it all the way to the end of the page. For this I think I've a little crush on you. I don't know, is "love" to strong a word to use in this situation? Well, if it's not "love," then it's very strong "like." I'm totally in like with you for coming down here. You are awesome. Please love me back! I know, I know, I shouldn't be all needy, it's not attractive at all, but you don't know how it is to be stuck down here. Who scrolls all the way to the end of a page anymore these days? Anyway, thanks for shedding some light down here in the depths. I appreciate it. Shoot me an email and I'll send you a dollar, OK?

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