There has been alot  of hoopla over the new iPhone 4. Some good reviews and some quite nasty issues.

Then there is the new iPad which comes with a new Operating System and set of fun new toys and features.

However, much of the fun new gadgets can be yours too if you own an iPhone 3G or 3GS. Apple has released the iOS4 for these devices as well.

Some of the new features include:

• Multitasking - Not true multitasking, but "Real Enough" Multi-tasking
• Faces and Places - View photos based on who’s in them and where they were taken
• Spell Checking - A built-in dictionary automatically suggests words and corrects spelling. It works in Mail, Notes, and other apps
• Folders - Organize apps into folders with drag-and-drop simplicity. Get faster access to your favorites and browse and manage up to 2160 apps.
• Better EMail - Unified Inbox and you can still see each separately, threaded messaging, open attachments in third-party apps
• Custom Playlists

Here is a video that can walk you through some of the new features:


You can learn more from Apple and walk thru the installation process  here: http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/. Unfortunately, like all Apple web sites it is slow as molasses. Part of the design before function that makes them and Google polar opposites in the computer world (but more on that another time).

However, beware. I have begun to see articles pop-up describing loos of functionality for many 3Gs users after teh update such as this one: http://www.crwenewswire.com/?p=64807

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I know that alot of people go crazy for the latest and greatest iPhone. I'm not really one of them. I have gotten over needing to have the latest and greatest. I am more about have the most productivity with the greatest effeciency and value.

I was recently talking to a friend of mine on the phone and he asked me to call him back on his home phone. He explained that he had just gotten a new iPhone 4 and it was a piece of...uh, let's just say he was not very happy with the call quality.

There has been a lot in the news lately about holding the new iPhone incorrectly. However there seems to be severaly other design issues. For a company that is all about design, that may be a huge problem.

I have seen both good and bad reviews.

Gizmodo has provided a lot of information and the final analysis is towards the negative but acknowledges the positive: http://gizmodo.com/5573952/iphone-4-review.

Engadget's review seems to gloss over any negatives and is all about the positive: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/iphone-4-review/. Unfortunately, it feels too Apple-Friendly, almost as if it was a paid advertisement.

I would suggest that before you buy, ask those friends that still love to get the new gadgets early. I'm pretty sure they already have one.

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A new version of Hotmail has just been released. This really looks good.

Here is a compasion of the new Hotmail to GMail: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-hotmail-challenges-gmail.html

I have also added a video about it in the media section: http://www.nsage.com/Media/Media_Player/VideoId/16/The-NEW-Hotmail.aspx

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If you have looked through the portal, you will have noticed a whole bunch of little orange icon. These are RSS feeds. We use these for our blogs, groups, forums and uploaded materials.

If you click on the icon, it brings you to a page that you can use to grab the latest items for that category. You can use that page to have other programs and services such as Outlook, My Yahoo and Google reader automatically fetch these for you. This allows you to get feeds from multiple sources and keep updated on all of them in one place.

This video gives a brief description of what RSS is and how you can use it.

 

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