I just finished taking the 2008 A List Apart survey for people who are, one way or another, involved in web development. I didn’t take their survey last year, but I was surprised at the thoroughness of their questions in some areas. There was an obviously design-oriented bias in a few different places, but overall I think it should give some really great results.
Anyway, I encourage anyone else involved in web design or development to drop by and spend a few minutes answering their questions.
UPDATE: As requested, added iTunes store links for the incredibly lazy.
I’ve been asked by a couple people what apps I’m using on my retro original iPhone, so here’s a quick list, in no particular order:
- iNetworkTest - Speed Testing of EDGE / 3G. Their site even maps your location for each test, which is cool.
- VoiceRecord - For quick notes. The only thing I ever used regularly on my previously jailbroken iPhone.
- AOL Radio - There’s a good radio station out of Atlanta that broadcasts through it.
- Google Mobile - Have yet to actually use this, I just go to Safari, but I keep telling myself I’ll use it.
- NetNewsWire - Still too horribly slow, waiting for a new version for it to become really useful.
- Pandora - Works well, even over EDGE.
- Twitterrific - Free version.
- WeatherBug - Best weather service there is, and they’ve got apps for every platform imaginable. Interactive radar map kicks ass.
- Epocrates Rx - More for interest, since I was in health insurance previously. It’s a cool app to play around with for a while, and has limited use after that.
- Fuel Guage - Calculate your fuel efficiency. Really spiffy.
- Mobile News - Not particularly useful unless I’m stuck somewhere and bored, then it can be a quick way to get a current events fix, including local news (based on your coordinates).
- Facebook - Useless, but well done.
- Bloomberg - The ultimate stock market app. Kicks the default stocks app out of the water.
- Jott - Transcribe voice notes. You can’t beat that. Have yet to decide if it’s worth replacing Voice Notes or not.
- Shazam - Listens to a song and tells you the name, artist, etc. That’s so amazingly awesome I can’t even describe it.
- WordPress - I don’t blog often enough for it to be useful, but who knows…
I was installing IIS on my Vista box earlier to test out Habari without mod_rewrite and happened to see this as I was finishing up:
Where did you come from? I sure didn’t install you…
Several times leading up to the iPhone 3G launch, I checked AT&T’s coverage map to see where they offered 3G coverage. I knew there was no coverage in my immediate area (Greenville, SC), so I was looking forward to finding a job in Charlotte, NC where they had very good 3G coverage.
Low and behold, while looking at a PC World article criticizing the 3G coverage, I load up the coverage map today and find that they have Greenville marked as a 3G area. Kick ass! Time to track down a store with an iPhone in stock so I can upgrade!
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