So I missed some opportunities to comment on Apple and tech related stuff in my summer blogging hiatus:

iPhone 3gs:
Absolutely worth it. This is my third iPhone. Jamie took my iPhone 3g, and she loves it too. She had a Samsung BlackJack beforehand. I've pretty much addicted her to Drop7.

Why is it worth it? Speed kills. OmniFocus on my iPhone used to take 20-30 seconds to launch, which meant that I only really used it at the grocery store. That amount of waiting time all but killed it as a universal capture tool for GTD. On the 3gs, it's ready in about 3 seconds.

With how busy I've been this summer, having a system like GTD in place to keep me on task, (and keep the overwhelmed overload at bay) has been a must. I find myself taking Poplar to work just so that I can review my tasklists in OmniFocus on my way to work. I actually think I prefer OmniFocus for iPhone to the desktop version. The desktop version has too much going on. I wish there was an alternate, simplified interface for it.

MacBook Pro
I picked up a new MacBook Pro this week. It's amazing to much how much cooler this machine runs. I've been using my laptop as a web development server all summer (running XAMPP.) So I would be sitting working at night with my laptop in my lap, and the fan would be going full blast, and the laptop would be noticeably hot. The problem is that XAMPP seems to be be a CPU hog... the new one handles it much better. Hasn't gotten too hot to have in my lap yet.

I'm still unsure about the new keyboard... I love the new Apple keyboards on my Mac Pro and my iMac. But the one on my MacBook Pro seems a little harder on the fingers than the old metallic keyboard on the previous model.

I think the new trackpad misses taps from time to time too.

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