Last night was a crazy hurricane coming off Lake Michigan, with 95 MPH gusts and raining sideways … here is the aftermath on our street. Luckily the condo is doing fine, no damage to building. The car that was under this tree didn’t fare so well.
Great news for me and traveling with my new favorite airline!
It’s the dawning of a new age, folks. In-flight Wi-Fi is slowly rolling out across domestic airlines in the US and Delta is looking to capitalize on it by outfitting their entire domestic fleet of aircrafts with Aircell’s GoGo service
Very good news for business travelers and anyone who needs to defeat the boredom of the sky. I can only think of the things I’ll be able to do now and be productive. Maybe a reason to leave even earlier on those Thursday home days??
Will be interesting to see how they handle content filtering, I don’t want to watch the middle aged man next to me looking at porn.
Great news Delta! Thanks for confirming my choice of airlines.
Very excited to arrive home to O’Hare today to fine the CTA Blue Line operating from the ORD station 2 weeks ahead of the scheduled slow zone work shutdown!
Nice work Ron Huberman!
No slow, expensive and traffic filled cab ride home for me tonight.
I’m rocking the new Wordpress app for the iPhone! Now I can blog from anywhere… Like right now I’m sitting on the toilet at my hotel in Atlanta… kidding
But seriously cool app, hope they develop some moderation functions soon. Right now you can just write new posts. Big thanks to Jon Wilbur for pointing out how to get the app to work for root domains, a bug that wasn’t quite worked out in the first release.
You can also add pix!
MobileMe finally has become stable enough to play around and get a good feel for what it has to offer. Although stable (meaning I can access me.com consistently) it’s still not working 100% , I’m having partial contacts sync and missing contacts on my iPhone. Overall though, MobileMe looks really nice though lacks functionality in some key areas. My impressions were that it was more along the lines of a final release product, not something more of a beta… Apple has been running .Mac for years, seems somewhat surprising Cupertino did not nail it on the first try. I am hoping to see an updated release with performance improvements and additions to missing functionality very soon.
The biggest disappointment in my opinion is the lack of integration of personal domains. I would love to be able to have the true “Exchange for the rest of us” experience with the capability to bring my own domain e-mail. Similar to the service Google Apps is offering for domains.
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Woke up at 02:55 AM this morning CDT. Stood line with my friend and neighbor… to accomplish the mission:
Unfortunately AT&T was only selling 1 per heart beat, so P is going to have to wait a bit for his 8gb (I’m going to head to the Apple store in about 30 minutes) … and iTunes activation is still down. So I can either wait, or try to jailbreak / unlock now.
I’m blogging live now from outside of Chicago’s AT&T Fullerton Ave store. I woke up at 2:55a by the sound of my coffee make grinding and brewing me a pot of joe. I’m now in line , waiting for the big day … taking delivery of my iPhone 3G.
3:32 AM: I arrived here about 3:10 AM to find about 10-12 other people in line. I’m currently at the end of the line but I’m sure that won’t be my position for long. When I woke up this morning the first thing I checked was MobileMe, I was able to login and view e-mail. I thought this time would be a good time to get my account up to date and get everything to the cloud. Apparently Me is down again. Looks like a rocky start for MobileMe.
5:33 AM: McDonald’s trip necessary, my friend and niegbor BJ arrived about 20 minutes after I did. We’re sitting together trying to take inventory of what everyone ahead of us getting. We’re bankingon AT&T getting about 40-50 units. There are about 12 people ahead of us so we should easily get our choice of my white 16gb , black 8gb unit and BJ’s black 16gb. It’s been rainy here like crazy, glad I chose this store, the sidewalk has a covered canopy. NO ONE will rain on my iPhone parade 
5:45 AM: MobileMe is now online, I was able to sync my contacts and calendar to the cloud!
5:50 AM: AT&T staff has arrived, acitivity in the store, T-130 minutes
6:15 AM: The Starbucks next door to the AT&T store just had a barista come through the line pouring free coffee.
8:55 AM: I’m home with my new white 16gb iPhone 3G … iTunes activation is down. I guess Apple didn’t learn from last years mistakes. AT&T could not activate the devices, I can’t activate it at home yet, have to wait until it is restored to “play” … or I could just jailbreak it now.
I’ve been constantly checking me.com over the last few days with the tips from over at TUAW on the go live predictions. About 15 minutes ago, (11:25 AM CDT) I was able to go to me.com, I saw the login box (see screen shot below) and at the bottom of the page I was able to see and click the 60 day free trial link, it took me all the way through the order process. (you have to provide a CC for the free trial) I’m super stoked because I was able to secure the golden email of jace(at)me(dot)com woo hoo!!!!
Since I signed up I can not login yet, me.com is directing me back to the guided tour page that has been up for quite some time.
Update: I was able to login at me.com , see the screen shots below. It’s definitely in a pre-launch phase. When I clicked the mail link it directs me back to the MobileMe guided tour page. My guess is we will see the official lunch sometime this afternoon.
Once Apple officially launches MobileMe I’ll post a first impressions, along with integration on my new iPhone 3G and a comparison to my current favorite webmail app: Gmail
OK - this is your free opportunity to make fun of me for this total take on American marketing spurring consumerism at it’s finest. We are less than 22 hours away from the iPhone 3G launch. I’m am so stoked, best way to celebrate my birthday is being a true Apple fan boy and camping out at 3a in front of Chicago’s Fullerton Ave AT&T store. I’ll be getting the white 16GB iPhone for myself, and the 8GB black for the Pete man.I’ve been the biggest blog whore lately salivating of Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch app previews for the new 2.0 firmware, checkout Boy Genius Report’s unboxing gallery … and TUAW’s countdown to the MobileMe Launch!
Tonight I’ll wake my ass up at 3a (or so excited just might not sleep) and head over the AT&T store, coffee and bagel in hand, camp out with my MacBook and blog live while sitting in line w/ who knows how many other geeks.
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