Updating

Written on June 17, 2009 by Katherine W. Prawl

The iPhone 3.0 software is downloading now, to be installed on my old phone in advance of getting the new one tomorrow or Friday. Ohboyohboyohboy! Well, actually, I’m not all that excited, but it will be nice to have a faster phone with more bells and whistles. The fact that I dropped my old one last week and broke the screen makes that a little more timely, but it does still work in spite of the cracks getting worse as I continue to use it. Since this will be my development machine for the apps I’m working on for alternaCrafts I want to take care of it.

Oh, about that alternaCrafts thing. That’s the new epublishing company I’ve started with Suzanne Tourtillott and Susan Huxley. If the blog isn’t live there yet, just wait a day or two. We are nearly ready to let ‘er rip.

Meanwhile, back to the iPhone. The 3.0 software was installed before I finished typing the last paragraph, with no problems at all. The first thing I noticed was a new icon on the home page called “Voice Memos”, and next i realized there are more app pages available. I was counting them backwards from the last one, got to eleven on the home page, but there was one more. That isn’t an app icon page at all, but a search page, and is it fast! Since we had just been through a tornado watch here a little while ago, I did a search for “weather” and before I even finished typing the word it found three instances, two of them application names and the third (actually, first to show in the list) was a record in my Contacts app.