• The signature will look unprofessional
• You will make typos
• You will trade brevity for clarity

There is something about this format that influences me at least to write things in a less effective manner. Maybe its the fact that I wrote it with my thumbs, whereas every serious piece of writing I have done since I learned handwriting in grade school was done on a full size keyboard.

The medium influences the art, so be careful which medium you use when.

iPhone?

Nonetheless, the sheer functionality of the device in such an elegant form has been executed perfectly by apple.

The raw power of the app community gives the iPhone’s hardware features steroids and really make it better as time goes on with more creative and functional apps being released.

It is really exciting to be out in public and have an idea, check it on the internet, and react to the social or personal graph accordingly. Suddenly, the things that we need to do and think about are easier and though we waste all of our time with the device it seems like we are being much more productive. The social media, communication, information, entertainment, and utility value are all 9 / 10 in my opinion.

Drawbacks (for the white version at least) include cracking shells. Yes that’s right, my white 3G S is barely a month old and it has the notorious cracks in the plastic other users have been reporting.

I also have been using a seidio innocase and happen to have dropped the phone twice with it on… nonetheless this would be very disturbing had I not signed up for Applecare.

I thought it seemed like a cool phone when I had never used it before. Now it has truly exceeded my expectations and I have to give it a generous recommendation to anyone who enjoys social media.

After hitting a few quick google searches I found an article for iPhone tethering that revealed a very interesting detail (and the reason I was initially unsuccessful at tethering my iPhone to my windows computer).

“…AT&T was strangely absent from Apple’s list of carriers that will support tethering in iPhone OS 3.0. AT&T has since explained that it will support tethering later this summer…” Cnet iPhone tethering

My immediate reaction was: “Why is that?” and the answer has to be that there are just too damn many iPhone users and they cant (or won’t) roll out infrastructure fast enough to support the bandwidth needs.

Its so easy to imagine At&t engineers screaming when they see that begin to come across their network en masse… “user benfoden has the balls to surf like he is at home on his tethered laptop and watch youtube on his 3g S at the same time.”

Didnt catch that?

Did you know that you can tether your iPhone to your computer and surf the internet over the phone’s wireless 3G connection? There are several iPhone tethering shortcuts out there to accomplish this but no official support from Apple or At&t