iTunes Match – I Spent $25 So You Don’t Have To

Saturday, November 19th, 2011

Signed up at work but don’t have any music there so that didn’t do me any good for testing purposes.
At home, I turned it on at 6:45pm Tuesday.
Step 1 – Gathering information about your iTunes Library – took until 7:10 or so.
Step 2 – Matching your music with songs in the iTunes Store –  said [...]

GarageBand now available on iPhone

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

GarageBand on iPhone is impressive. They managed to make it support everything the iPad version does, but intelligently hid a lot of things in menus so there is room on the screen.
The piano keyboard is small (tiny!) but the drums may actually be a little easier to play for me than they are on iPad.
The [...]

My First Day with iOS 5

Saturday, October 8th, 2011

Best new feature: long song/album titles now scroll in the music app (there is no iPod app now, there is a Music app and a Video app).
Worst new feature: Playlist order is broken again.
Other things I’ve noticed:

Location-based reminders are apparently only on iPhone 4S. I can set a reminder for a time but not a [...]

My White Golden Ticket

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

This is from last Friday, the ticket the reserved my white iPhone while standing in line at the Apple Store in SouthPark, praying nobody I knew would walk by and see me.