Apple Tuesday

So in a departure from what has become the norm, today saw me making a trip up to the local office for a meeting with the bad man and a newly assigned PM who will be taking things forward from here for us.

Wednesday's have become the day for our weekly get togethers up there, but this week it's a Tuesday. Nothing especially different about it, other than the rest of the account team weren't there.  As things have turned out, the day went well mostly - apart from having to pick up something new that wasn't on the original list of new things to be picking up. In the end, mid afternoon saw us finishing off at a sensible time.

Other facts we learned today*: 

  • The Channel Islands are just off the coast of Poland.
  • Lawyer is spelt L-I-A-R

It's Apple day - so I'm looking forward to hearing what they have to say about the next round of iPhones. As I said yesterday, I'm fully expecting there NOT to be an iPhone 5 (but as with everything those guys do - anything could happen)

Iphone

I reckon the best iOS5 function that's coming (aside from the voice assitant and the enhanced notifications system) is moving the camera shutter button onto the physical volume buttons on the side of the phone. That will actually make picture taking far more natural and one hell of a lot easier to do.

Next week I'm jetting off on the annual (or in my case bi-annual) golf trip to Spain. Normally I have to lug my proper camera around with me of an evening to capture the lads in various states of stupidity. Fingers crossed that the new OS lands in time so that this year I'll only be lugging my phone. I'm also going to get my "posting to Google+ via email" sorted out so that I can instantly share thier embaressing moments amongst the correct circles (although posting to a specific circle via email is something I have yet to figure out).

Something you may not be aware of that will help me along the path of automating such tasks it a website called http://ifttt.com (If This Then That). It's a place were you can join sites (referred to as channels) together in the form of "tasks".  So for example if you use instagram to take pictures and have a dropbox account (for online storage), you could create a recipe that each time you take a picture with instagram, then copies that picture onto your dropbox storage.

Once you've created your "tasks" you can share them to the ifttt community as "recipes". There's a whole host of channels available to the tool, including such sites as Facebook, Foursquare, GoogleMail, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Flickr and on and on the list goes. It's clever stuff and I'd recommend it if you're trying to manage your "external digital emminance" :D

Well then - 6pm is almost upon us and so I'm shooting off to keep track of the Apple announcement. Hopefully I can get iOS5 before my travels.

If you feel like following along, you can do so here: http://live.gdgt.com/live-apple-iphone-5-event-coverage/ 

*Some items proclaimed as fact may NOT actually be facts. True Story.

 



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