No Business Naming Things

I caved and got a 16g iPhone today. Perhaps under other circumstances I would have waited but I desperately needed some retail therapy to smooth out what’s happened recently. This is probably adequate to brand me a shallow asshole for life, but I can own that. We all deal in our own ways.

So, verdict after 5 hours of ownership: it’s good. It’s everything I expected it to be and there was only two things that pissed me off. The first, which lays at the feet of Apple, is the (relatively) minor pain of putting on custom ring tones. There is no way in hell that I’m going to pay again for a 30 second clip of music I already own. While Apple doesn’t make it EASY for you to create your own, a liberal application of Garage Band and this tutorial does the trick.

The second is an application problem with FileMagnet. I really wanted a decent PDF reader for this thing and every PDF I’ve thrown at FileMagnet has either frozen it or simply not worked. The thing only cost me $4.99, so I can’t complain TOO much, but I will complain more if I can’t get it working in time.