‘T’ and I went gallery hopping last saturday, and by chance stopped in at Phillypaws, a impressive animal shelter on 2nd street. ‘T’ spends almost every weekend volunteering at a similar (albeit smaller) shelter so it was pretty interesting seeing the differences. The animals where very sweet, and if I could I would adopt every single one of them. The fellow pictured above, was a real charmer.
PAWS Adoption Center
(Open Mon-Sat: 11 am to 7 pm, Sun: 11 am to 6 pm)
100 N. 2nd Street (at Arch)
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Ph: 215-238-9901
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‘T’ and I spent some time in the Princeton NJ’s Whole Foods Market - I’ve never been there before, all I can say is wow, my local Acme Market really pales in comparison. The meat, seafood and produce selection at Whole Foods was incredible - like 100 kinds of sausage - and more types of mushrooms than I could ever eat. I scored some salmon candy (yes you read that right, and some wasabi peas - yumm!) Obviously I had a better day than the fish in the photo — Have I mentioned how much I like my iPhone’s camera?
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I don’t often get to see the art Museum from the 52nd floor of the Mellon Center - shot with my iPhone through a substantial slab of glass.
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If I’m remembering correctly, my sister in-law got me this very cool little gargoyle many many years ago, it’s been a resident of my desktop since then… I’ve only recently started putting the wedding ring on it’s head, it’s just rattling around on my finger as I code anyway.
I like the contrast from the rock to the silver to the wood.
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I hadn’t read too much about the iPhone camera, which is a shame, because given that it’s UI is just about the slickest thing on the phone, it bares mentioning - and given that the light level isn’t too high or too low, the photo’s aren’t bad, true they are a bit artifacty if you compare them to my DSLR - but again my DSLR also weighs 540g (lensless). It would be nice to set the compression and image-size on my iPhone though.
Oh That’s MAXX above, he’s grown up some since this post.
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So I’ve had my iPhone for about 48 hours - I’m a bit torn about it, it’s a great ipod, it’s a tremendous mobile browser, it’s a darn nice 2 MegaPixel camera - but honestly it’s just an okay phone - 70% of my issues revolve around the form factor - it’s thin, slippery and awkward, it’s got zero tactility (is that a word?) the top feels pretty much like the bottom, so it’s more than a little awkward to fiddle with in the car unless you actually stop to look at it… I don’t want to write a long form review, it’s been done to death - I’ll just mention a few things that jump out at me.
- Mobile Safari - excellent, especially if a site is designed to accommodate it (FYI - this column width - kicks ass on the iPhone).
- Ipod - clean & elegant, Apple continues to impress me with their ability to restrain themselves feature-wise.
- Keyboard - I was concerned, I have somewhat ‘sausage’esqe’ fingers but I seem to have no issues whatsoever - for the most part error free.
- Calendar - the little dots to signify events is just weak - ‘Steve’ get the ipod UI team to look at the calendar UI… NO TASKS!, um 2007!
- Maps - Not hugely impressed YET, but as soon as some smart programmer hacks some GPS software to triangulate your position based on overlapping wifi coverage - the map integration could get very nice, very fast.
- Clock - (seriously) very nice UI, Timer has the single most gratuitous UI on the whole iPhone.
- Notes - Did we really need the legal pad metaphor? I’m a tad insulted.
- YouTube - the video looks amazing..simply amazing.
- Edge - Not fast, not slow - when I’m in the middle of nowhere I don’t care that it’s slow.
Like I said it’s a great little toy gadget - am I glad I bought it? Sure, I’m a UI designer and a web developer, and a 19+ year mac user - and buying myself an iphone was a no-brainer, am I going to miss my old cell phone? probably, but only when I’m on the phone.
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