I have 20 minutes to finish up 1/2 hour's worth of work and here I am posting on the internet. Bad manager! No biscuit!

Bad manager! No biscuit!

It's all on the one computer so one person has to do it.

Or maybe I can do 1/2 hour's work in 20 minutes.

Laters!

I'm home now. I was hanging out with crew after the show tonight (and they made me put away the iPhone and be social). Then I stopped by Halloween Horror Nights for a few to say hi to folks. Now I am home, letting the iPhone charge.

Actually, I'm pretty happy with the 8GB of space. As ND said, a reasonable amount fo music, with space left over for video. However, with how much I'm using the iPhone right now, I'm burning through battery charge pretty quick. That's about my only complaint.

No, "complaint" is the wrong word. iPhone. Cannot complain about having an iPhone. I don't think the right word exists.

sean, some things I've done for battery, and I have yet to run lower than half... but I confess, I am not playing with it every minute.

1) settings-mail-AUTOCHECK: set to manual. unless your expecting an e-mail that's time sensitive. So when I have a breather, I can check my mail, but then the phone isn't spinning every 5 minutes to see if I have a message.

2) if your not in wi-fi area, turn it off. It drains battery pretty good.

3) auto brightness is your friend.

4) Keep bluetooth off except when your wearing the headset. If you hop in the car a lot with the ear bud on, leave it on. While you are in the booth running a show, cruising porn Buffistas site, ya don't need it.

Lastly, I've found turning off the mail auto-ping, and having wi-fi ON helps reduce the lovely EDGE network sounds that picks up in speakers, clear-com, etc.

1) settings-mail-AUTOCHECK: set to manual. unless your expecting an e-mail that's time sensitive. So when I have a breather, I can check my mail, but then the phone isn't spinning every 5 minutes to see if I have a message.

Good to know. I actually use gmail, and did not like how the iPhone POP client ineracted with Gmail, so I may try to delete that mail function entirely.

2) if your not in wi-fi area, turn it off. It drains battery pretty good.

Good to know. At home, my Mac mini is riding on a neighbor's wi-fi, and my iPhone just piggybacked on the signal as well. When I'm not at home, I'll shut that off.

3) auto brightness is your friend.

When I stop using the iPhone, even just for a moment or so to standby and take a sound cue, I click the little button that sleeps the whole thing. I think that's a good habit for me to get into, rather than letting the phone sleep itself after a minute. I get impatient when I set the phone down and it sits there, glowing and eating up battery power.

4) Keep bluetooth off except when your wearing the headset. If you hop in the car a lot with the ear bud on, leave it on. While you are in the booth running a show, cruising porn Buffistas site, ya don't need it.

Also good to know. I don't have a headset at all, so there's no reason for me to ever be using bluetooth. At least until I get a headset or something.

the other thing that helps. Thankfully my DLO Transpoder car thingie fits the iPhone (with a lil cloth behind it). it's a charger, mount and FM transmitter all in one. So, if I'm going out for the evening after work, or some such, I can plug the phone in while en route and get a bit of charge so I don't run out completely. If your running out of juice just sitting the booth, especially on those lovely 2 show days, why not bring the A/C->USB charger?

I've had it like a week now. I'm sure ND has some other tips/tricks/hints.

Without you, what would my friends mock me for?

Well, there's the--

....Nobody answer that.

Aw, no fun!

Hm, I wonder how early would be too early for me to start dropping hints that a 16GB iPod Touch would be a perfect birthday present?

No iPhone here. Shiny they are, but not on my want list. I'm on my computer 16 hours a day and it has all my needed toys. My phone is an old pocket pc that totally sucks battery power, but serves a needed function.

It is overcast here today so I am going to brave the great hot outdoors and do some weeding and pruning. Eeep!

Also had no groceries last night, but DH brought home yummy stuff compliments of some Rx company. He was doing some work at a big medical practice and they had a catered lunch of chicken marsala with angel hair pasta and a very yummy big salad bowl. They had enough leftovers for our family dinner and lunch today. It was quite a nice surprise. We spend a lot of time in medical offices and half the time they have free lunch (and gooooood stuff) from some pharmaceutical rep. I need to time our visits better...