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Having spent a couple of days now with the iphone I think that I’ve seen most of what it has to offer and where it hits the mark or hits the hair. (Follow the link and you should get the joke).
As I am sure all of you know that the iphone is a touch screen mobile, with all the bells and whistles one could want and enough DRM that blends magically together giving you a beautiful marriage of S&M and IBS.
Now you are able to buy a cover for your iphone, but I unfortunately don’t have one. Thus the iphone’s screen quickly becomes a greasy mess of finger prints… much like my first girlfriend. Sorry, sorry I’ll stop with the cheap jokes.
So buying a cover is a must, protecting your ridiculously expensive investment should be of major concern to you.
As one reader pointed out,
“You are wrong about us not having the itunes store.
apple has opened the itunes store for south Africa.
the only trick is that in the itunes store the only thing we can buy is applications.
so they have opened it, but no music, tv shows or movies.
still, its cool that we can buy apps”
Thank you for commenting on the blog Matthew. I always enjoy getting feed back from loyal readers. However as you stated in your comment, that we do in fact have an itunes store, I would disagree. Heres why.
In order for it to be a store, it would have to be somewhere a transaction would take place. According to Google a store is ‘a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services’
Our itunes store does none of that. All we are able to do is download free applications. We aren’t able to purchase music, videos, ring tones or even applications. Its more that we have idownload than a itunes store. I thank you again Matthew, I always enjoy hearing other opinions on topics, even when they are wrong, so wrong in fact that I am sending someone to take your keyboard away from you.
Vodacom, are you listening? We need a itunes store for South Africa. You brought us the most wanted phone in the world, but now we need what made it so wanted. The applications, music and other stuff.
You see, we want to get the most out of our iphones. Where is the support? Where are the ringtones, music, videos, applications? We don’t have it, and doesn’t look like we will for a long time.
Vodacom or anyone, please somehow open an itunes store for South Africa. According to Wikipedia, Apple has opened an itunes store in New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Slovenia, Cyprus and Malta. And these aren’t even important countries and they get an itunes store. South African’s have more than enough disposable income than people living in Malta. Where the bloody hell is Malta anyway?
See Vodacom, I take my hat off to you from bringing the iphone to South Africa. Let me keep the phone and I’ll take my pants off for you. Bring an itunes store, and Apple product owners around SA will throw money, children, the elderly and vital internal organs at you to get hold of itune’s content. Consumers are waiting, wallets open, cash in hand, so what are you going to do about it?
One the reasons we need an itunes store for South Africa is that, it is only with songs purchased from itunes are you able to make ring tones for your self. Don’t like the stupid ring tones that come with your R7000 phone, well sorry you’re stuck with it.
Want to be able to watch a TV series or movie on your iphone? To bad, because you have to rent it through itunes. Which as you know, we don’t have
I guess its time to jailbreak this baby then?
At idownload (note: not itunes store, as we established it is not in fact a store), you are able to download a number of free applications. It will take a while going through all of the crap trying to find the diamond. But if you look hard enough and long enough. You should be able to find one or two free applications that rock.
Stanza is a great free app, allowing you to download ebooks that you are then able to read on your iphone. Another that I enjoy is Twittelator, enabling you to twitter from your phone. You are also able to take a snap shot of your current GPS location and send that through to Twitter. Your friends and family will be able to then use Google Maps to see were you are. Some times it gets it right, other times your in the middle of the ocean. Its a hit or miss affair.
Also recommend downloading a application called Fring, its skype on your Iphone. No need to try to sell this to you. I think we all know how awesome thats going to be.
Vodacom’s data blundes, packaged with its contracts is strangely enough, large enough for the average user out there. Checking your email and chatting online doesn’t eat up bandwidth to quickly. However, with the iphone in my hands I was able to eat through 64.9MB in five days. I think that maybe Vodacom needs to up the bandwidth, for its iphone packages. But lets wait and see how this thing rides out. Maybe Vodacom’s bandwidth packages is enough, but only time will tell.
Its been a while. Sorry readers.
As the browser wars heat up, with the introduction of Google’s Chrome ‘Beta’, which will be featured in another review soon, The old favorites are still banging along. Using the internet, doesn’t have to be a task. Addon’s and plug ins make the user experience, more streamlined and easier. Saving you time and Bandwidth.
Mozilla’s Firfox 3, is still in my eyes the best Internet browser for your PC or Mac.
Seeing as its free and far more secure than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, there is really no reason that you shouldn’t be using it.
Unlike Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Firefox is able to manage and use 3rd party applications and addon’s.
Lets have a look at what Addon’s you should be using with Firefox.
Forecastfox:
What to know what the weather outside is doing? Forecastfox, provides up to the minute weather coverage, keeping you updated every fifteen minutes what’s going on outside. Also giving you three days in advanced weather forecasts. Sitting in the bottom right hand corner of Firefox, its simple unobtrusive design gives you all the information you need. Saving you a trip the weathersa.co.za site.
TwitterFox:
Like to Twitter, but hate having to visit the site, every time you need to inform your friends that you’re about to head down to KFC or that you’re about to take a bath.
Twitterfox, will enable to keep friends updated, right from your browser. Enabling you to post and review new comments.
After you’ve installed it, and typed in your user name and password. A small blue T should appear at the bottom of the Firefox browser.
A single click, will bring up the latest comments and also give you space to write one of your own.
Video DownloadHelper:
Ever want to download videos from Youtube or Liveleak. With Video DownloadHelper, You will be able to download your favorite flash player movies right to your desktop.
Sitting next to your address bar. Simply click on the icon, after you have finished watching a video. From there it will download it to your desktop. Quick, simple and easy…
Download Statusbar:
Normally when you download with Firefox, another window will open and clutter your already full task bar.
With Download Status bar, an status bar will appear at the bottom left hand side of your browser. While not needed to enhance the Firefox experience, it does help in keeping your task bar from cluttering up.
StumbleUpon
This great little application, will take you to websites you would never have imagined your self going to. Simply download the addon, sign up, select the types of things you’re interested in and begin stumbling. Each click will take you to a never before seen site that will either amaze you or destroy your faith in humanity. Warning, it does become addictive, and you will find your self wasting a lot of bandwidth with it. But when you are bored and need something new to look at… Start stumbling.
Yoono:
Get all your Gmail, Facebook, MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger and what ever other chat program you use, straight to your browser in one helpful little window.
So instead of having various windows open to chat with friends, have all their details in Yoono. And chat away. You are also able to set up your RSS feeds into Yoono, however it still doesn’t work as well as it should. Rather stick with your normal RSS reader.
While most chat programs work well with Yoono, it seems that Facebook doesn’t want to work with it. But it doesn’t really matter, Facebook chat never works properly at the best of times.
Cooliris:
Cooliris, is with out a doubt one of the most awesome addon’s you can get for Firefox. It enable viewing many pictures at once. Think of it as Window picture viewer but on your Web browser. Put Windows Picture Viewer sucks, I hear you say. Well yes it does, but Cooliris doesn’t. A 3D interface that looks like it was ripped from a Mac OS. Its a site to behold. Install the addon, when you want to view a picture, move your mouse over the picture. In the bottom left hand side of the image a black and whtie image of two interlocking squares will appear…click…behold…cry… love me long time.
You are able to watch videos and navigate around will Cooliris…but you will waste a massive amount of bandwidth doing so.
British English Dictionary
Spellcheck for your web browser… simple yet effective.
FoxyTunes
Control panel
