3 posts tagged “cellphone”
(Sorry this took me so long to post! Reason below!)
As anyone who's ever run a popular blog can tell you, the moment you do start running a popular blog, you IMMEDIATELY start hearing from all those annoying fucking word-of-mouth marketing companies out there, all of them desperately trying to get you to try out their product for a couple of weeks, in return for you writing about the experience at your popular blog. And thus it is that I find myself these days with a superduper expensivoliola Nokia N95 "smartphone" on my possession, which the Nokia people are really hoping that I will put to the test, and really push to the limit and see what exactly it can and cannot do.
Which unfortunately for Nokia I've now done, and have come up with an unfortunately corporate-unfriendly answer, which I know that the word-of-mouth-marketing people there at Nokia really don't want to hear me say -- that if you own a Macintosh, it's pretty much useless to buy a Nokia N95, SERIOUSLY IT'S FUCKING USELESS, because the Nokia N95 won't play a single video that your Mac creates or understands, nor will it play a single song or podcast that you happened to get through Apple's iTunes. SERIOUSLY, IT WON'T PLAY ANY OF YOUR MAC SONGS OR VIDEOS, and seriously it's pretty much pointless to own a Nokia N95 if you own a Macintosh. I know, I know, Nokia doesn't want me to say this, and we'll see if I ever actually get reimbursed for the surprisingly high 30 fucking dollars I'm going to end up paying just to ship this Nokia N95 back to this weasely little word-of-mouth marketing agency; we'll see, I guess, whether I ever get those 30 bucks back, or whether I'm going to have to get back on this fucking blog and talk yet fucking again about how this fucking word-of-mouth marketing agency stiffed me out of 30 fucking dollars, after they claimed that this entire process was going to be a stress-free and financially-free one for me. Yeah. We'll see.
But meanwhile here's the first video I shot, which I swear to God I tried to upload in its original, higher-quality MP4 form; but for some reason, both SixApart and YouTube are scared to fucking death of the MP4 version of this video, and will only let me upload the cheaper, more pixelated 3GP version; for those who would like to see the better version themselves, they can simply click/right-click/copy-and--paste the following: http://www.cclapcenter.com/archives/bikeloopnokia.mp4 . Seriously, the much larger MP4 version is so much better than the 3GP version, I don't even know where to start. Please check it out if you're on broadband and have the extra time/resources to do so. Grr, MP4 broken uploads! Seriously, Six Apart and YouTube, fix this!
Yeah, I know, every couple of weeks I throw a new entry up here about how I'm going to start posting regularly soon, just to disappear again for another couple of weeks. What can I say? The weather continues to be terrible here in Chicago, which means I haven't gotten into the habit yet of bicycling and getting out each day, which means I haven't gotten into the habit yet of updating this moblog regularly. In the meanwhile, though, I wanted to mention that my new book of photos is now out, Cellphone Photos 2007; it's a reprinting of my favorite 200 or so Palm Treo photos of 2007, of the 900 or so I featured both here and at my Flickr account last year, laid out in convenient PDF form (both American and European versions) for sending quickly to a laserprinter at work when your no-good boss isn't looking. Anyway, feel free to click over to the book page to download a copy for free if you want. And I promise, regular updates here starting soon! I swear to fuckin' God!!!
I know, it's about fucking time, but this afternoon I finally got the 60 photos I took around Chicago in June posted to my Flickr account; those who are interested can click right here to go see them all (of which seven are reprinted above). And then hopefully I'll be getting the 60 or so photos I took in July posted as well; and then that will finally have me fucking caught up on getting my cellphone photos posted online in a timely manner! Christ, writing captions for hundreds of photos takes up SO MUCH unexpected time!
