Archive for June, 2009
Megan Fox Analyzes Her Farts
Jun 22nd
I swear, while the entire world is obsessed with Megan Fox, I still don’t get it. She’s just not my type. I admit, she’s nice to look at, but she’s certainly no better than at least 25 women I can name off the top of my head.
But she got marginally cooler when I found this Megan Fox quote:
“If you eat Chinese food, your farts come out like Chinese food. If you eat Mexican food, your farts come out like Mexican food. And milk, it’s like—you can smell the warmth in the fart. My wardrobe on Transformers always smells like farts, and I have no idea why.”
I’m not kidding.
VONAGE SUCKS BALLS!
Jun 22nd
I signed up for Vonage in November. We have Vonage ads on OSNews, so I thought I’d give them a shot. I signed up for the $25/mo plan. The problem is, they use recycled numbers, so we got tons of phone calls over the first month or two from people speaking Arabic. I had to change my number. They want to charge you $9.99 to change your number. But we changed ours.
Fast forward a few months, we still get 99% wrong number calls. We never use the thing. So when the device stopped working two weeks ago, we finally decided to cancel.
When I called to do that, I found out that Vonage charges $39.99 to cancel your service. Buried in section 8.7 of their terms of service, you’ll realize that by signing up, you’re actually agreeing to a contract with a cancellation fee. A big one too: $39.99 for the service, plus, you have to buy the “device” for the full price: returns are not accepted. So, to cancel today, I have to pay them $170. Worse than a damn cell phone carrier.
I’m telling everyone I can now: stay away from Vonage. While some may be happy with their service, their terms are intentionally vague (sdee seciton 8.8, “Recovery Fees“), their service “contract” is misleading and intended, I believe, to sucker you into thinking it’s a monthly service, and their customer service laughed at me when, after he told me that it was “kinda hard to find and understand,” I suggested that they should reconsider their terms.
Vonage sucks.
Thank You, Mr/Mrs Fed-Ex Person!
Jun 21st
On Friday, my iPhone 3G S was scheduled to be delivered. I was very anxious that, should it require a signature, I’d be spending the weekend awaiting its Monday arrival. So I took a shot and wrote a little note. I now love our Fed-Ex dude (dudette?).
EPIC FAIL
Jun 9th
I am TOTALLY over the word “fail” and almost every time someone says “EPIC FAIL,” what they actually mean is “this is less than ideal.” Boo.
Features I’d Like to See in iPhone OS 4.0
Jun 8th
So here’s the day: WWDC 2009 keynote, and we’re discussing iPhone OS 3.0. But there are still some major things I think are missing from the iPhone. Here they are, in no particular order:
- Wireless Sync
- Apple is the king of “no wires.” They did everything wireless first. But the iPhone still needs a wire to sync. They have the perfect syncing technology already: Bluetooth. Why not permit syncing over Bluetooth? I don’t any limitations on why you can’t sync over wifi, let alone Bluetooth. This seems like a no-brainer.
- New Springboard
- How we’ve made it to 3.0 without a better way to manage our apps, without even folders, is a mystery. It’s imperative, especially as iPhone owners install more and more apps, that there is a better way to manage and access apps. It’s time for a re-thought Springboard.
- File Management
- Seems awfully odd that I carry 8GB of disk space on my hip but can’t carry a single document without emailing it to myself. It’s time to permit some storage of files on the device. Older iPods allowed “disk use,” why can’t the iPhone? And if not, at least a manner of loading the files through iTunes would be appreciated.
- Background Apps
- The chants have been loud and plentiful. We want to run apps in the background. It’s not fair to say it will chip into battery life: we understand that. Let us run down our own devices as we wish, okay?