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3G Nanaimo, Outpost for Basecamp, and My iPhone

Posted November 26, 2008

I rolled over this morning at 7:15 AM to the sound of the alarm on my iPhone, lazily reached around for a minute to shut it off, and then groggily checked my email as I always do. To my delight, in the upper left corner, next to three glorious bars of service, was a brand spanking new 3G icon in place of that depressing little E. Hear that people from Vancouver Island? 3G has finally reached Nanaimo.

Thank you Rogers Wireless, we can (almost) be friends again.

In other news, I was on the bus today thinking about how much I'd love to use Outpost to check my Basecamp during the 20 minute ride to Viviti, so I checked out outpostapp.com and found it amusing that the site seems to virtually explode all over iPhones version of Safari. Well, at least they're working on the app instead of the web site, ha.

Speaking of the iPhone, I found a funny quote by someone named Phil on pleasefixtheiphone.com the other day:

"Lack of MMS support. People laugh at my iPhone because its the only phone since 2002 that can't send or receive picture messages. Why am I ashamed to have the most advanced mobile hardware in the world?"

A wonderful company called FullSIX in NY made that site, and in my opinion it's pretty cool.

My biggest qualm with my iPhone is that I can't seem to figure out how to edit the in-memory dictionary to stop capitalizing the word "nerdburn" every time I write it. Does anyone else know how to do this?

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The iPhone should stop auto-correcting the word if you've rejected their suggestions 3 times, i think? I know it auto capitalizes the first word of a sentence. Which you can turn off in settings.

That's a sweet link, thanks Rus!

Speaking of Basecamp on the iPhone, be sure to checkout Projects, by appremix.

As the author, I'm biased - but our customers think it's great too! :)

http://appremix.com/projects/

I'm definitely going to try that. Maybe I'll review it :) Thanks!

As for the portion about the iPhone and MMS. That's partially untrue, and may be carrier dependent. I definitely can't send MMS, but I can definitely receive MMS. Admittedly, I have to login somewhere on Fido.ca to see the MMS, but I can still receive them.

Gotta say though, I really like seeing that sweet 3G logo when I'm out of my WiFi reach.

Shawn,

Outpost will hopefully be approved soon, we've been "Under Review" for a full week now...

At any rate, creativeapplications.net just posted a pre-release review, be sure to check it out: http://www.creativeapplications.net/2008/12/05/outpost-iphone-preview/.

...and yes, a compatible version of the site is in the works :)

Hey David, thanks for the direct blog reply! I've been waiting for Outpost for a while, so hopefully they approve it soon. No worries about the site, I was just poking fun at the irony, but glad to hear you've got it coming along ;)

If any of you guys are interested in "Basecamp on iPhone" app check out Encamp: http://www.encampapp.com/

Shawn,

Hopefully you've already seen, but Outpost is now available: http://www.outpostapp.com/

Our new site works on the phone, though I still need to work out the video embed :)

Best, Dave

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Shawn is a 28 year old freelance graphic and web application designer in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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