I’ve had my iPhone 3GS phone for about a week now. Wow, what an amazing device. It really is a handheld computer. I can do almost all of the same tasks on it as I would on my laptop. From checking email, to buying movie tickets or transfer money between bank accounts, its all possible, fast and easy.
The other big feature for me is the ability to take photos and videos. Both work really well. The video feature is easy to use and allows you to upload the videos directly to Youtube. This makes the whole process of taking and publishing videos entirely possible from the phone itself and very easy. Even my dad could probably figure it out. The photos taken by this phone are high quality. This is the first camera phone that I could use as a camera. Auto-focus is pretty neat zeroing in where ever you touch your finger to the screen. I wish there was a feature that let me upload my photos directly to facebook or flickr, but I suspect that will come eventually. (Its already here for iPhoto.)
Overall, I am very pleased with the iPhone 3GS. Its a great device with its only limitation being AT&T’s crappy network. Hopefully Verizon will get one soon.
I wrote what I thought was a good review of Uchi, but Maggie didn’t like it as much so it didn’t make it into the features section and got relegated to the same status as a normal post. I put a lot of work into it and thought it came out well but Maggie didn’t think Uchi was a hot enough of a restaurant to capture a lot of traffic. The slant of Maggie’s Austin is more towards what is new and cool, so reviewing older restaurants isn’t as important to her I guess.
Here is the review if you want to check it out.
I reviewed a bar called Cuatros for Maggie’s Austin this past week. It was a blogger event with free food and drinks. The owner was cool and I enjoyed my time there. You can read the review here.
A very cool photo I took of the main entrance.
I wrote another article for Maggie’s Austin covering Annie’s Cafe and Bar which just opened around the corner from my office. Food was delicious but the service needs work. I will certainly be back though. My photos were just fair. Not too pleased with any one of them except for the one I posted here. The story itself was kind of campy. Not one of my better ones.
Some of the wonderful veggie dishes at Whole Foods.
I wrote an article for Maggie’s Austin covering the Green at Whole Foods. I mainly talk about how hard it is to convince people to eat veggie only items over their meat counterparts. I also use a really bad analogy to hockey fights which could be the worst analogy in the history of analogies. still, it ended up being a pretty good article.
Also, this is the first time in my photos that I captured people eating instead of the food itself. I thought that worked out nicely.
I wrote a review on Maggie’s Austin for a restaurant called El Chile. I’m particularly fond of a photo I took for the restaurant that showcases a new type of photography that I’m experimenting with. It’s called HDR photography and it uses three different photos and different exposures and melds them together in software. I’m not very good at it yet and I wasn’t using a tripod (which I should) but it came out pretty well.
The restaurant itself is great and I highly recommend checking it out.
For a while now I’ve been posting my personal content to Flickr and Facebook where is provides me a bit more control over privacy. When I started joshkerr.com, my goal was to share my personal life with my friends and family. Today, a personal web page is a thing of the past. Facebook now provides me with a great platform to share my content with friends and family and in a way that is much easier than the standard web page. As a result, I’ve removed my personal content from my blog.
Instead, I’m going to use this blog for business purposes, mainly promoting ideas around my startup businesses.
For those of you looking for my personal stuff, you can find it here: