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We pride ourselves on being innovative here at Sane Magazine. Innovative and lazy. Innovative, lazy, and cunning.
We also pride ourselves on being very au fait with the latest and greatest hip software and gear out there from the latest and greatest hip companies. Like, say, that Cupertino-based one that does the music player. And computers. And phones.
And today, Monday, June 11, 2007, they announced that you can, indeed, as a third part developer, put apps on their phone.
Well, as you also may or may not know, we have a group of mostly guys who hang around the office and tinker with computers all day. Most of them surf the web for what seems like ages, before even pretending to do any work. Which is fine. "It's what they do," their managers say. Personally, I suspect their managers are slightly afraid of annoying the engineers, as they're a touchy lot, even after, or perhaps because of, the vast amount of coffee they consume. I don't entirely blame them, but it doesn't stop the rest of the office from resenting them, making fun of them behind their backs, or sneaking ever more trace amounts of standard road tar into the coffee pot on the engineering side of the office.
At any rate, those guys spent most of the morning reloading websites, guffawing to one another, slapping each other high fives, and looking depressed. Alternately. The depressed looks, in all probability, didn't come from the one episode in which one engineer went to high five another, it turns out, unsuspecting engineer, missed (due to the fact that the other engineer wasn't expecting the high five), and hit him quite hard, for an engineer, on the head, knocking him well nigh unconsciousness for the remainder of whatever it was they were watching.
Scant minutes after they finished doing whatever it is they were doing a pack of them huddled around a few different Macs, and here we have the result. The very first web application specifically designed for the iPhone. Ta DA!
It is the ultimate iPhone application. Designed by our crack staff in OmniGraffle and a few other web technologies, it is a crude rendering of an iPhone, which is optimized to ensure the viewer realizes that they do not have an imaginary iPhone, but the real deal, 100% beautiful.
It is also further designed to perform such that, if the owner of the iPhone is running the application and is showing it off to their friends, who are, as of yet, iPhone-less, they they most certainly do not have an iPhone, and are stuck with crude renderings of one, if that, while you, the iPhone owner, has the real thing, and can view such compelling applications as the Sane Magazine/Q.I. Software iPhone Web Application.
It is a true miracle of modern technology, and is a testament to our engineering department in the little spin-off company that sits in our own offices, doing god knows what else all day.
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