For the next few days I’m at the Austin City Limits music festival 2008, enjoying a lot of great music from a lot of very talented bands.
But they’re not all bound to hit me where I live… and there are 130 bands to check out. This translates into a lot of reading or listening ahead of time.
This morning, while looking over a schedule where I’ve only heard of six of the bands and actually only listened to four (out of forty-six!) I had a thought. What about music recommendation websites?
It’s really v1.1 – It has been said that the 2.0 release of the iPhone OS was like a 1.0 release for third-party apps. Given that mentality, today’s 2.1 update was a welcome relief – it made all of my third-party apps start working again.
It also helped my phone realize that there was indeed 9 GB of media (rather than ‘none’), and the MUCH faster syncing and backing up also comes as a nice surprise. Other claims include better 3G service and less battery drain – we’ll see. I’m still tempted to pick up one of those offboard batteries, just in case.
I added Evernote as a substitute for the (yellow) ‘Notes’ app. It is a free service with a web interface and syncs with native clients for iPhone and Mac (and windows, etc.) Apparently it can OCR even handwriting inside of notes that you take photos of (eg on cocktail napkins, which are usually the only things around when the best ideas occur.)
Update: iphone OS 3.0.
A brief list of features that I’d love to see implemented at a low level by Apple and/or AT&T.