My little corner of this place called the World Wide Web
I found this really cool moon photo at the AstroMeeting.
I love all the detail that he goes into about taking the photo.
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There is an AP story out about a Minnesota college student attempting to sell his vote on eBay. He is being charged with a felony under an 1893 law that makes it a crime to sell your vote in Minnesota.
Seems to me that if the teenager is going to be charged and prosecuted for selling his vote, then maybe there needs to be some investigation of the politicians while they are at it. How many of them could be guilty of violating the spirit, if not the letter, of the same law?
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As I keep browsing the App Store to find more interesting applications, I find my self wondering exactly what criteria Apple is using to place the various applications in each category.
It’s not the actual application category or sub-category that I find strange, but the generic categories:
Some of the sortings make sense. For instance, the application AirMe shows up in the All Free Applications and the All iPhone Applications groups, yet it fails to show up in the New group. Since this application is only listed as compatible with the iPhone it makes sense to not be listed in the iPod Touch Applications group, but it doesn’t seem to make any sense to not be listed under the New group, especially since there are older applications that are listed.
The application Firebox, shows up in the All iPod Touch Applications group and the All iPhone Applications group. This is appropriate, since Firebox is listed as compatible with both platforms, however it doesn’t show up in the New group, which is quite odd since it has a release date of today, July 18, 2008.
I really hope that this gets sorted out soon, since it is making it more difficult to find interesting applications and may be costing developers if the applications aren’t free.
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This is the first post using the WordPress app for the iPhone.
It’s a pretty nice application, but it would be better if it supported the rotation feature to get the horizontal keyboard.
I do like the fact that you can add photos.
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This morning, as I have for the couple of days, I checked the App Store in iTunes for new applications for my 8GB iPhone 3G. I noticed that when I sorted the new applications by release date that the NYTimes application showed a release date of July 16, 2008. I thought that it was odd since I know I got that application on the first day of the 3G release.
Turns out that it is an updated version, however when clicking the Check for Updates link in Applications section of my iTunes library I got the following dialog box:
So apparently the update check mechanism in iTunes doesn’t work. I hope that they get this fixed soon. Even better would be an e-mail notification that a new version of the application is available.
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