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This is my first post from my touch. Pretty cool. This is what happens at 2am, you mess with apps on your touch.

The reasons I just can’t get an iPhone yet:

1. No Cut/Copy/Paster I mean seriously, how hard is that?
2. You can’t click on phone numbers in e-mails to call/sms them.
3. International data roaming is far more expensive than the Blackberry.
4. I can type faster on a physical keyboard. And people, I’ve been forcing myself to send e-mails from my iPod Touch for the purpose of practicing and I currently never see myself being as fast on a virtual keyboard as a real one.
5. Speed. The Blackberry interface is nowhere near as pretty as the iPhone’s, but it’s faster. My iPod Touch is choking while searching my contacts and flipping through e-mail quickly. The Blackberry interface may not be pretty, but it’s got a leg up in the speed camp.

A couple things I’m really excited about with the Blackberry Bold:

1. Data transfer while on a call. With dual radios it can send/receive e-mail and sync while you are on a call. So now during those painful airport conference calls you can receive and reply to e-mail as well.
2. Improved interface and speed with double the processor performance.

The Internet is the biggest time waster ever. For some reason, unlike with TV, you actually feel like you’re doing something. I’m here to tell you when you are on the Internet you are not doing something! At the very least nothing productive, but often nothing at all.

So please stop reading blogs, and let’s all go do something together.

(I wrote this specifically to waste some time.)

Year end tax write-off’s and curiosity finally made me do it, and I suppose I should write about it. There are some things that I think are great so far, others I’m neutral about, and other I’m still pretty frustrated with and I think I’ll start with the un-boxing experience, and then take my other experiences in that order. It’s been about 2 weeks now.

When the Apple arrived I was really excited, it’s just about the coolest toy one could have. The packing, the box, the simplicity of the components inside and lack of junk you don’t need. It screams design from the moment you take it out. I pulled the only two important pieces of hardware out of the box, the 15″ MacBook Pro (2.6GHz, 2GB now upgraded to 4, 200GB 7200RPM HD) and the power adapter. I plugged it in and turned it on. The setup process was pretty and super easy. I was now logged in to OS X. Being a responsible computer use the first thing I did was run Apple Software Update. Apple Software Update froze during the first update. I had to force quit and restart Apple Software Update. Not the best moment, but I got through it. I had to update and reboot twice and it was all up to speed. I immediately got Firefox on it and started to browse the web and use iChat. One can easily see why this would be a computer of choice for a normal home user, the things that most people want/need to do on a computer are right at your fingertips out of box: Web, Mail, Chat, Music, and Photos. That’s all many people do with the computer and they’ve made the experiences easy, beautiful, fast and fun.

Some of things I’ve already fallen in love with on the Mac follow: iChat is by far the best chat application ever created and I’m excited to be able to finally use it. The lack of a reliable built-in web cam on most PC’s automatically makes the Mac a better real-time communications tool. I’ve been loving iChat. I’ve been using iTuens for years on the PC with much success and I’ve found it to be faster, more stable and still excellent on OS X, no surprises there. The Finder is superior for getting around your files to Windows Explorer. Expose and Spaces is about 20 times more useful than Window flip, or the task bar. The dock and stacks are also a ton more useful than the windows Start menu. They are simpler, prettier and just easier to work with. Overall I’ve found OS X to be just more fun to use when I’m doing basic everyday tasks. What more could one ask for from an OS, right? Well, I’ll write about some of the experiences I’ve been struggling with next.