iphone

says it all really – i don’t know what i’ll do – when i do ? i must have an iphone 4, well i do now, i have one.

wake up greg two

Oct 4, 2010

wake up greg two {2}

my wife wanted my newly beloved, cherished, worshiped, admired, dribbled over and fingerprint covered iphone 4 to fly this morning. the alarm is the loudest, second world war, american missiles are coming type siren … blarmp, blarmp, blarmp etc, at the loudest setting a human could manage to cope with. now i think it’s great, it powers me out of bed with a vitality normally deserved for a frisky 20 year old, in fact if i was in bed with one, i’d be frisky as well. ( i probably wouldn’t get out of bed, but i’d want to be awake !! )
any-who, the whole alarm nightmare, or indeed wakeup-mare, seemed to be tied to the continuing, yet rather strange thing that is apple and it’s software. the daylight saving change to timezones in australia seems to have upset my alarms setting. it apparently runs off one clock, thinks with another and then ignores the time.

if you set brisbane time, you’d suspect ( stupid boy ) that it will keep that time and allow the alarm to raise hell when it’s asked to. this morning, ( i still can’t find and answer for this ) being set for 06.00 it screamed at 04.00, then once we’d both got back to sleep, ( me nodding off while listening to my brides dismay at this turn of events ) again at 05.00 and then the final insult to my marriage and well being, it failed to go off at the set time of 06.00. nothing, not even a fart, and normally that’s the first thing to get going in the morning.

tbaoo takes great pride in finding out facts for you dear reader. this time though, complete failure, as this is the best i can find, and no clear response from apple:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1021224

it seems that if you undo the repeated action ( i.e. the days you want to wake up ) exactly what you would want from an alarm clock, and then remember to reset it every night prior to going to bed with your sweetheart, “your safe”, you’ll be rudely awakened as you wish, without problems .. i’ll set it and see, stay tuned, listen and look out for my flying iphone 4.

i have become an app addict

Sep 27, 2010

i have become an app addict {6}

it had to happen, i’ve bought some snazzy covers and skins for the iphone 4 and downloaded enough apps to strangle a goat. the sheer pleasure of playing with the iphone 4 ( i keep using the name in full for the benefit of the google search engine ), while learning all the tricks, of which i know none yet, will continue into the year ahead. one that i’ve grabbed is puush. i used it to grab and puush the shot of my apple imac below ( search engine again ) and will now target my prey with a newly aquired vigour and technical ability. i haven’t decided on just what my prey is yet, but whatever or whoever they, or it is, they or it, should look out … LOOK OUT.

it or they might be you dear reader, i’m going to design, create, pay for and struggle over, a new app, one that will take snapshots of “you at your computer”, whilst you’re looking at tbaoo. it won’t matter what state you’re in, ( and i don’t mean geographically ) i mean mental status, clothing style and amount ? sobriety, kindness level or pitch of anger .. i’ll capture your image and – oh hang on, what the fuck am i going to do with this image ?

ok, i’ll try another ground breaking evil plan. if you’ve a brilliant idea for an app, leave a comment below outlining the full detail, including how to make it, and if i think it’s tremendous and worth using as inspiration for my own version of the exact thing ( i.e. steal ), i’ll do just that. it doesn’t matter that it’s your idea, i’ll just take the credit and the money .. no hang on it get’s better. i’ll develop an app submission website, via a new app and then build the app myself, the small print disclaimer will cover this devious deception. i think i’ve placed enough links to the apple apps store .. so you should get the message, but look out, i’m might be watching.

this photo is of my apple imac ( hello google ), sitting on my desk, empty, willing, clean, well spoken and patiently waiting for the rubbish that spews forth, like a frog at mating time, which then becomes tbaoo. it can only get better of course, probably when i’m obscenely wealthy from my newly designed ( or borrowed ) app sales. look out.

greg my iphone

Sep 22, 2010

greg my iphone {0}

guess what dear reader ? i have received, in fact i’ve been “given” a hand delivered note from a courier, advising me that there is something for collection at my local post office .. my eager well trained mind believes that it might be – wait for it !!! my iphone 4. now that’s fantastic news, it’s so fantastic, i can’t say fantastic enough FANTASTIC !!!

i’ve been unusually quite the last few days playing with my bride’s new mobile phone, and as funky as i get with all the features, she continues to remind me, that all she wants is a phone, something to make and receive telephone calls on , how wrong is she? ( she is not the cats’ mother in this case ). her new phone is an lg 540 ( android system ) with enough gadgets to keep me occupied and an optus account to keep me communicating with call centre employees, who have excelled themselves in providing a service but are excruciatingly unable to grasp the nuance gladly provided by tbaoo. the wiping of screens and scrolling effects is odd, and as i know this is my first such phone, i’m getting the frustration out of the way, before the over hyped, maybe unnecessary iphone 4 arrives. you all know that when it arrives i’ll be locked in my room, relaxed and smiling with my new toy, pressing, wiping, scrolling, pinching, expanding, loading, deleting, downloading, calling, browsing and swearing ( no doubt ) as i progress through the features. i will be straight out to the shops to buy a case, screen skin, car mounting bracket, cables and headphones.

that’s of course if this delivery is my new iphone 4, if it’s not, well i’ll be well pissed off and begrudgingly reacting to whatever the parcel happens to be – it could be my record breaking tax return, so i suppose that’ll be ok… i could go out and buy another piece of superfluous technology if it is.

tbaoo as you might know has no real interest in sport, but has snuck this tremendous australian band tism into the post to acknowledge the afl grand final this weekend, st kilda is featured in the clip, does that mean “go st kilda”, well no i don’t really give a shit. it’s a great band and one of the better known songs, big voice now and sing along.

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on hold getting closer

Sep 10, 2010

on hold getting closer {3}

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  1. well dear reader it only took 13 days, 15 hours and 43 minutes -
  2. but we now have complete lift off …

it seems that the apple god ( it is their god, this particular one ) is getting closer and she might actually acquiesce to my not too demanding, demands. shit i hear you cry, tbaoo is finally going to get an iphone 4, well let’s see.

it’s on back order and while a helpful young fellow in an optus shop told the bride and i that his back orders would be 8 weeks, he did say the “online business type requests” came through a bit quicker .. sheesh i hope so. i just bought a $19 plan lg phone online for the bride as well, although it also comes with 2 months free access for buying online .. see how easy i am with money , do you want some money ? ..  just leave a comment and i’ll mull it over.

here is the confirmation, in case you are trying and would feel jealous of such success … ah ah !!

Dear Alan,

Thank you for purchasing Optus products. ( yes dear reader it says purchasing !!!! )

Your Optus order number is 000000

This order number can be quoted to our deliveries & activations department on 0000000 should you have any queries regarding delivery or need to make any changes to your delivery prior to the delivery date.

If you wish to change your delivery date or cancel the order, you can call 0000000 between business hours.
If you miss the delivery you can collect it from your nearest australian post office by showing 100 points of id.

Thank you tbaoo ,

Your service number for Optus Mobile is 00000000

the issue of delivery remains of course, but at least this is a start. here we go then, this is what has captured tbaoo’s attention, yes it’s the 16 gb, but hey that’s huge enough FOR NOW !!

well dear reader it only took 13 days, 15 hours and 43 minutes -

but we now have complete lift off …

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