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I was going to write a post here about why you should watch Friday Night Lights, but Sara Mosle over at Slate already wrote it much better than I could:
In one scene, Julie comes home from her boyfriend’s house, where she’s witnessed a scene of family chaos, and announces to her Mom and Dad: “I love you. … You guys are the best parents in the world.” Eric gives his wife a smug, clueless look, as in “Aren’t we great?” But Tami’s face is a mask of horror: “No, honey!” she says. “Something terrible must have happened!”
So if you’re not watching the show, go buy season 1 right now.
What it is:
An IM client that supports AIM/Google Talk/ICQ/Jabber/MSN/mySpace IM/Yahoo & Facebook IM on your iPhone. The version that got published live today to the iPhone App store includes Push Notification. I.e. when you get a new IM, you’ll get an SMS/Text-like notification on your iPhone screen telling you who sent the message and the content of the message. You have the option to either close the message box or view, which automatically opens the application and opens a chat box in which you can chat with your buddies.
The good:
-Nice UI.
-Easier to chat on the iPhone than I thought it would be.
-Error correction works great and once you get used to typing, you’ll be chatting away fast on it.
-Supports landscape view.
-Push notification is very nicely implemented, although logging off before you go to sleep is recommended.
The bad:
-Yahoo IM doesn’t work. Every time I attempt to log in, I get the error message “Connection failed on all fallback ports”. Not sure if this is temporary or not, looks like it’s not specific to this version of Beejive based on a quick Google search.
-Frequent crashes. I’ve had it for less than a day and it has crashed 3 times on me back to the home screen.
-The cost. $9.99 for an IM app? If it had been $4.99 I wouldn’t have complained, but $9.99 is more than this app is worth right now given the issues above.
Recommend that you wait and see what Meebo is up to or for Beejive to drop the price.
Update: Now getting “error: received invalid data” when trying to log in to Yahoo
Update: June 24th – looks like Yahoo is working now, at least somewhat. I could log in to one Yahoo account, but not two at the same time. Log out of all accounts and log back in.
I was going to write a post about midsummer here, but TexasSwede beat me to it. (Although he conveniently forgot to mention the excessive drinking that Swedes do on this day)
So anyway…Happy Midsummer everyone!
Verizon FIOS, I love you. You’ve changed my life. The speed you give me is unlike anything I’ve ever had on this side of the Atlantic. I have yet to have any network related downtime from you. (Now watch the service go down this week, just because I wrote that…)
Now fix your damn DNS servers, would ya?
(For the non-techies, DNS is what looks up the name of the web site you want to visit and translates it so that your computer knows what to download.)
If you’re on FIOS, simply switch to OpenDNS or the other Verizon DNS servers and you’ll get rid of those pesky error messages saying you can’t load certain web sites. It’s easy. Just do it. You’ll thank me later.
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