FoxBoom!

So I went to the support site to send an e-mail about resizing the mail columns in MobileMe, but this time there was an option to chat with a support agent instead.

So I did.

And man, it was by far the most positive support experience I’ve ever had out of Apple. Sarah might just be an anomoly, but I’m hoping she’s part of a whole new culture. Y’know, one that listens and understands and cares. Good God, please don’t let her be an anomoly.

But yeah, it turns out you can’t resize the columns. But I did get a link to the feedback form to see if I can get it fixed.

Since I’m just about to send my fourth support e-mail to the MobileMe team, I figured I’d keep track of them here.

First, I can’t find the option to use UK date formatting instead of US date formatting. Then I noticed my inbox wasn’t even in date order at all. Then I noticed the message count isn’t right. And just now, I realised the column resize grippers don’t do anything.

This is .Mac sucking cheese all over again.

Just when I thought the 2.0 software upgrade was working without a hitch… my iPhone’s playing The Polyphonic Spree instead of Meatloaf.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again… Apple’s technical support sucks.

My Xbox has been repaired already, and it’s coming home!

Wow, it took me exactly a month to get my ass in gear and send my Xbox in for repair.

The GPS and everything is great and all, but this is why I need to upgrade.

I’ve been using Evernote for a few days now, and y’know? I think it’s a keeper.

There’s a great demo video on the site, and it’ll really show you everything you need to know, but I discovered something awesome last night, and now I’m totally sold; on the Mac, it installs itself into the “print to PDF” menu, so now I can send receipts straight into my library.

Keeping all my documents and receipts together now is such a no-brainer, and I can get at them from my iPhone, my Mac at home and my PC at work. If/when I hit the free service’s limits, it’s a dead cert I’ll get a premium account.

Fantastic!

Also, seriously, I’m putting XP on my Eee after I get paid at the end of the month. I want Firefox 3, plus this utilitarian look isn’t doing anything for me.

It’s been going for a while now, but I’ve only just really noticed it. The BBC’s Programmes site aims to provide a permanent page for every BBC show ever broadcast, with a mind for the Semantic Web and smart design.

It really is exciting to see the BBC discussing and embracing standards.

I was just looking for a way to synchronise my Mac OS Address Book and Google contacts, and I found Soocial. It sounds like the kind of thing I want, so here’s waiting on that beta code…

Now all I need is to be allowed to merge my normal Google account with my Google Apps account. My contacts are held in the “Google Apps” side, and everything else (i.e. my YouTube account, my maps and Reader) are in the normal Google account. This sucks.

It’s been a long time coming, but you can now login with OpenID to leave a comment here, without creating an account up front.

If you have a LiveJournal account then you already have an OpenID. On the login page, just enter your LiveJournal URL (e.g. “foxboomdotcom.livejournal.com”) and you’re done!

Likewise, if you have a Yahoo! account then you can make that an OpenID too.

And if you for sure don’t already have an OpenID, you can get one from myOpenID, like I did.

Love for you all!

[Edited: Terrana is totally right.]

You know what sucks about keeping a calendar?

On my iPhone, I prefer the native calendar application to the Google Calendar web application. On my laptop, I prefer the Google Calendar web application to iCal. I want to be able to create and edit events on the iPhone application when I’m on there, and in Google Calendar when I’m not. On top of that, I need my calendar to be published online so I can import it into my work calendar in the office, and so my housemate can see it.

So far, I’ve had to ditch Google Calendar, and just sync my iPhone with iCal, and have iCal automatically upload my calendar to a private server so my housemate and work can get to it. The problem is, I need to remember to open iCal every time I sync my iPhone, otherwise changes I’ve made on it don’t get uploaded immediately.

This is too much hassle. Like, way too much.

I’ve downloaded the trial version of BusyMac. I’m hoping to be able to use the iPhone native calendar and Google Calendar together, depending on where I’m logged in, use Google Calendar as the public version, and publish my calendar on my LAN via Bonjour.

Yep, that’s nice and simple… kinda. If it works!

On the iPhone’s calendar, a ‘dot’ on a day means there’s an event, right?

I’ve got an all-day event starting on March 28 and ending on April 3, but there’s a dot on April 4 too. If I move the end date back, the dot moves back… but there’s always a dot on the day after the event ends.

This isn’t right… right?

The last time I reported a bug to Apple, it turned out that I just misunderstood how the thing worked. I don’t want to make a boob of myself again, so I’ll ask you guys first.

If you want to help improve iPhone/iPod Touch location awareness accuracy, Skyhook Wireless have a form to fill in to add your wi-fi points to their database.

Go!

Rifka asks what Twitter is. What a fantastic question!

There’s an official answer, but I just figure it’s somewhere between blogging and instant messaging. There are Twitter clients for a million platforms and mobile devices, and you can use them at any time to broadcast — in 140 characters or less — what you’re doing or thinking or feeling. And if anyone cares, they’ll get an SMS, or their Twitter client will pop up, or their RSS reader will get a new item, or whatever.

Can I call it “micro blogging”? Can I call it “targeted broadcast IM”? Is it a fad that’ll be forgotten next year? Is it the next big thing? Or is it just free and fun?

I am FoxBoom. Follow me.

I just signed up on Geni. It’s a Web 2.0 family tree!

Last year, I ditched del.icio.us because I had to switch back to Safari from Firefox to synchronise my bookmarks with my iPhone.

However, since the 1.1.3 firmware update lets me put links right onto the home screen… it turns out I only use a handful of websites on the iPhone, so I’ve put them all on there and I haven’t touched my bookmarks since.

Which means I’m back in Firefox, and back on del.icio.us. Good stuff!

Last month, I bookmarked Things to go back and have a look, then forgot about it. Oh, the irony of forgetting the task of reviewing a task management system.

I’ve tried Don’t Forget The Milk and some others… I’ve totally forgotten about them. Yeah, they were that memorable. I guess to be fair, I was really looking for a client-side application rather than something web-based. Apple Mail handles to-do items, but I don’t use it because I prefer GMail’s web interface.

I realise the inconsistency of my desires. They make me fun to be around!

But, hey! Things looks pretty awesome. I’ve mapped the “new task” command to ALT-space, so I can record things anytime. It’s super-simple and fast. And the preview release is free until Spring. Get!

Hey, Twitter actually makes a lot more sense when other people you know use it.