Final Cut User

I recently became a member of the iPhone club.  The phone itself has a few issues - ie.  It’s frozen on me a half dozen times this week, the battery hasn’t lasted a full day, its chokes once in and while and everything slows to a halt, the web is about half speed compared to my Blackberry - I still love it though.  On the other end ATT just plain sucks - mainly in clarity and ability to get reception period - oh and when someone sends me an MMS I have to log into ATT’s special little multimedia center to check the message. What a pain. 

I do wish that you could copy and paste on the phone.  The ability to recognize embedded media would be a plus as well.  Flash compatibility has been widely demanded and talked about, though I’m not sure when that will happen.  Quicktime 7.3 has disabled quicktime/flash compatibility - this makes me think we may have to wait a bit longer for flash on the iphone.  

Before I picked up my iPhone last weekend, I was well aware that the latest and greatest version is close - but I needed a new phone and couldn’t wait any longer.  I wish I could, I always will, but sometimes you just gotta have it.  Here is an article from Macworld that claims new iPhone in ‘08. Many sources have leaked details and alluded to release dates for the updated phone. Most things point to the week of Feb 5th.

One of my favorite Apple sources over the past year or two, Thinksecret, has closed its doors - or server rather. The site shutdown this week after reaching a settlement with Apple in a lawsuit over releasing inside information. Thinksecret has been an invaluable resource before making many purchases for me and others. Often saving me from buying current versions when new ones are only weeks away. They will be missed. Check out the story here.

In other news Apple quietly updated the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines today as well.

So… I’ve been on the road for 5 weeks, which has led to a huge lapse in blogging. I’m headed to LA for a month after the holidays to work on a reality tv show, though I promise to be better about it the next time around. In blogging now from my new iphone, part of the plan in keeping more up to date. Finishing up work today on a feature starring Chris Kattan and Amy Sedaris, then headed home finally.

oh boy. Been on the road quite a bit.  Sorry for the lack of interesting things.  I’ll be posting a big one tomorrow once I get some sleep!