Disposable Apps
August 9, 2008, 12:34 PM | 0 Comments
I bought the iPhone on day one here in Canada and have been mostly happy with it since that point. In using the iPhone, there have been no shortage of “wow moments” as I continue to get familiar with the interface and all the new features that Apple has packed into the 2.0 version of the iPhone OS. One of my favourite new features is the App store, which has opened up an entire world of new possibilities on the iPhone.
One of the most attractive features of the app store is that most of the apps are reasonably priced at under $10 (some very good apps even come in at below $5). Sure, I’d prefer free software just as much as the next guy, but such a low price point for most apps makes it easy to download as many for-profit apps as the free ones. One other plus is that it makes the possible regret very minimal if you happen to purchase a dud. This has had me thinking lately about whether or not Apple has ushered in a new era of what I call “Disposable Applications.”
Show Your <body>
April 8, 2008, 9:55 AM | 0 Comments
It’s time for the 3rd annual CSS Naked Day! I am again participating in this year’s web standards awareness “event” and baring all in the name of web standards awareness. As of right now, my site is a little… uhm… free.
The End of an Era
March 4, 2008, 10:59 PM | 1 Comment
Today my favourite football player, nay, my favourite professional athlete of all time decided to call it a career after an amazing 17-year run in the NFL. Brett Favre has retired.
Like most Packers fans, the news came as a bit of a shock to me this morning, and even though we all knew it was going to happen eventually, I didn’t think that after the season that just passed that we’d be saying goodbye yet.
A lot will be said of Favre’s decision to hang ‘em up and the debate will surely rage on about whether or not he made the right decision. The truth of the matter is that he has made the right decision, because the decision is his alone. How can you say that someone who is making the decision to spend more time with his family is the right or wrong one? That is why, even though Favre clearly has more left in the tank, his decision is the right one for him to make.
Thanks Microsoft!
March 3, 2008, 10:16 PM | 0 Comments
I’ve purposefully stayed out of the much-debated decision that Microsoft had apparently made with IE 8 to use version targeting because I can honestly say that I see both sides to the argument and I don’t feel very strongly about either position. Today though, I’m breaking my silence on the topic because Microsoft has made an important decision.
In a complete reversal of their position, Microsoft today announced that IE 8’s new standards mode will be on by default. What this means is that developers will have to explicitly tell IE 8 to act like IE 7, not the other way around as had been previously planned.
Super Bowl Prediction
January 29, 2008, 8:38 PM | 2 Comments
I’m really going to shock some with my prediction for Super Bowl winner… but I’m going to go with…
The New England Patriots.
Shocking, I know, but now that the Packers are gone, I have to stick with my week one prediction (and the majority of those who responded in my week 1 poll) and pick the Patriots to cap off their perfect season in super fashion.
NFL Conference Championship Predictions
January 16, 2008, 4:39 PM | 3 Comments
This week has been pretty busy, so I’m going to keep it really short in the interests of actually getting this posted. Last week was a whole lot of fun for Packers fans to watch, and it’s exciting to see the transformation that’s taken place in Green Bay over the past year.
The conference championships this week are going to be a lot of fun to watch as well, but I honestly don’t expect the same kind of drama that took place in the divisional championship round last weekend. We’ll see, it could be surprising, but I don’t think we’ll be shocked by the outcomes.
NFL Divisional Predictions
January 8, 2008, 7:34 PM | 6 Comments
Last week’s Wild Card weekend wasn’t actually as exciting as I thought it would be. Sure, the Jaguars/Steelers match was a lot of fun to watch, but that was really the only game that kept my full attention from start to finish. Congratulations to Eli Manning for winning his first playoff game and the San Diego Chargers, for winning their first one in long time as well.
My predictions last week got me off to a good start for the playoffs by picking 3 of the 4 games right. Hopefully I can continue that success this week in what looks like a bit more of an unpredictable weekend.
NFL Wild Card Predictions
January 1, 2008, 2:43 PM | 3 Comments
Happy New Year! Today I decided to go back over each week of picks to check and make sure that I had been adding things up correctly. What I found out is that I had actually been tallying my total incorrectly since week 12, showing an extra 4 games in the loss column and bumping the total amount of games played out of whack (which is what prompted me to check my numbers in the first place).
So, all of my posts have been updated to show the correct records/percentages and other related items and in case you missed my update at the end of last week’s post, it turns out that this has been my best year (at least for the regular season) ever. I finished off the regular season with a nice 172-84 record (.672) which is better than the 160-96 in 2006 and 163-93 in 2005.
reinspire is the personal portfolio and weblog of Jonathan Eckmier, a web professional from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. This site is frequently updated with Jonathan’s findings relating to (or not relating to) the world of web development.
