Just in case I am not the last one to know this, I thought I would blog about it. I found out today that you can take screenshots on the iPhone. It is very simple. Just simultaneously press the home button and the sleep button. Your iPhone will flash white and you will hear a camera shutter sound effect. The image will then be saved on your camera roll. This works regardless if you are in an application or not.
Mac
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Oct 08
Take screenshots on iPhone
6
Jul 08
PocketMac for Blackberry
In preparation for the iPhone 3G release this Friday, I needed to get my contacts off my blackberry. If I would have had my contacts being synced with the Exchange server at work, this would not have been a problem since the iPhone now supports exchange. I did not want all my personal numbers and info though on the exchange server at work cluttering up my Outlook. I found this utility called PocketMac that is being distributed by BlackBerry. It is a very simple program. Within 5 minutes I had all my contacts downloaded from my Blackberry and imported into my address book on my Mac. It even combined email addresses on Mac with the phone numbers on my Blackberry. This application is free. Starting on Friday, when I activate my iPhone these contacts will be pushed from MobileMe to my iPhone and my work contacts will be pushed from exchange to my iPhone via ActiveSync. I can’t wait!
5
May 08
Apple TV Review
A couple of weeks ago I picked up an Apple TV along with a HDTV. Lucky for me, Best Buy has created an apple section at Best Buy. I am very happy with Apple TV but not very happy with iTunes. Apple TV was pretty easy to hook up. I just had to hook up the power cord, an HDMI cable and type in my network password. It then asked me to type in a password on my computer and my iTunes library was linked. It started syncing all my content. I have it set to automatic so it picks up the latest shows and music. If you have more on your computer than what will fit on the Apple TV, it will stream from your computer. I was also very happy with other internet capabilities. They have a pretty slick interface to spend hours browsing You Tube. You also can hook up a flickr account and other flicker contacts so you can view photos. Those photos can also be your screensaver if you are listening to music on it. I was also very happy with the interface. It was extremely easy to browse movies and watch trailers. I have rented a couple of HD movies so far. This is a big step from Amazon Unbox on Tivo. Another thing that is better than Unbox is that you can start watching your movie within 60 seconds of selecting it. With Amazon Unbox you had to wait until it was done downloading and it was slow as hell, even on a 10 Mbps internet connection. Now, just so not everyone thinks I am an apple fanboy, I will point out a couple of negative points regarding Apple TV. First and foremost, I think they need more content. I think that this will get better, but right now it’s not the best especially if you are only willing to pay for HD content such as myself. The biggest complaint I have is the content being wrong on iTunes. I downloaded two seasons of Nip/Tuck and the first season has two episodes that are exactly the same. I watched an episode that was supposed to be at the end of the season towards the beginning which left me very confused watching things out of sequence. The second season had a show that was only 8 minutes long. The rest was chopped off and it appears that way on iTunes so I know it wasn’t problems downloading it. Regarding the first issue, I was refunded plus some. The second one is flagged to get fixed once my account has been charged. I pointed both issues out to iTunes and they are still offering the wrong content as of tonight. Their customer service wasn’t the best either. Despite these problems, the experience has been great and I recommend the product. I am filling up hard drive space fast though. I only have a 200 gb drive right now that is almost full with my media and backups of my computers. I think this all part of Apples evil plan to get me to buy a Time Capsule. 
20
Mar 08
Time Machine works with Mail
In Leopard, Apple introduced a new backup solution that is pretty sweet. It is called time machine. It allows you to go to any folder in any point in time. It makes backups of changed files every hour for a day, every day for a week, and a backup for every week for as much space you have. Many products offer this kind of solution, however, I think that apple again differentiates themselves by the ease of retrieving files from your backup with the elegant user interface. Below is a video of this in action. What really amazed me tonight was that it just wasn’t folders/files you can retrieve, it works with applications. I entered time machine while i was in my mail program. My desktop dropped as I entered time machine and my computer went into the time machine universe. All of a sudden I was able to go view my inbox at what it looked like at any point in time. Try not to be too jealous Jeff.