I came home around 7pm looking forward to getting the new Eye-Fi Explore that has Wi-Fi geotagging and wayport HotSpot access. As usual the cardboard box was put in front of the door and the box was crunched like this photo. And it was so light.
I was upset like "Oh shit someone unboxed this and stole the item. WTF" but the actualy the Eye-Fi card along with the recipt was inside, not stolen at all. I was now relieved but I feel a bit concerned who the hell did this. My apartment building is secured with the key fob thing and an access to the individual floor requires a key code in the elevator. So it should be someone in this apartment building or someone who tailgated. Bleh.
My room is just in front of the elevator and I've been ordering lots of things from Amazon which are usually shipped by UPS and they're always put in front-door. But this is the first time I've got this. UPS always comes around 6PM so maybe next time I'll try to be at home or put a note saying "Dear UPS: Call my cell or don't leave the item here" if the item is expensive. Hmm.
国内でのアイシェア社によるアンケート調査結果では、回答者のうち1割弱がiPhoneを購入予定、メイン端末としての用途が中心との結果が出た。
Tech-onでは『「iPhone」の購入予定がない人は91％，アイシェアが調査』と報じたが、むしろ1割がiPhoneを購入と回答したことのインパクトを抑えておきたい。
まず、「日本ではiPhoneは受け入れられない」という論調もある中で、この数字が逆の可能性を示していること。米国では、2008年第一四半期の携帯電話出荷台数が3100万台、同期のiPhoneの出荷台数が170万台、シェアで5.5%に留まる。iPhone先進国である米国での台数シェアよりも、国内の購入予定者の割合が高いことは、特筆しておくべきだろう。
次に、メーカシェアとして1割は大きいということ。最近の携帯端末メーカシェアの動向をIT-Plusの記事が伝えているが、購入実績シェア、購入検討者が候補とするメーカの推移のいずれを見ても、ソニーエリクソン、NEC、東芝といった下位数社とはいきなり肩を並べてしまう数字だ。しかもたった1機種の、それもスマートフォンの投入だけでである。
最後に、キャリアのシェアとしても無視できない数字であること。購入予定と回答した人の「半数近くがソフトバンクユーザー」（発表より）。残りの半数以上は、キャリア変更か追加契約ということになる。総務省発表によれば、今年3月までの1年のシェア変動はNTTドコモが2.5%減、KDDIは0.6%増、ソフトバンクモバイルは1.7%増。こうした増減幅の中で、単純に言っても4～5%の契約増は大きい。さらに、多数を占めるメイン端末としての購入予定者は、MNPを利用したキャリア変更になるだろう。ソフトバンクモバイルの契約増に加え、他キャリアの契約減も見込まれる、ということになる。
「1割がiPhoneを購入と回答した」ということは、日本にiPhoneが受け入れられることを示唆しており、メーカシェア、キャリアシェアに少なからず変動を引き起こすことが予想される、インパクトの大きな数字のように思われる。
For those without Comcast subscription, or who wants to watch EURO 2008 games with crowds in San Francisco:
- Mad Dog in the Fog
- South Beach Cafe
- Zeke's Diamond Bar
- Johnny Foley's Irish Pub
- O'Neill's Irish Pub
- (add your comment if you know more...)
I've been using Cordless RumblePad 2 as a controller to manipulate my Mac mini from the couch by using GamePad Companion. It worked okay but the application apparently is not maintained anymore and there are some actions that I'd love to map but couldn't.
So anytime I need more actions like changing the system volume I either have to use Apple Remote or ThinkPad X40 over synergy. it sucks. I was about to buy the bluetooth clickpad Dinovo Mini but it's pricy ($150) and I have been waiting for its price to go down, which doesn't seem to happen.
But fortunately I just found a better app to solve all of these problems: ControllerMate. It basically allows you to program blocks of events and actions based on any HID device inputs. Its modifier functionality to map multiple actions to one key is a killer.
Its GUI is so developers oriented and might not be easy to figure out if you're not programmer type. But once you go through the tutorial, it's brilliantly easy and it took just half an hour for me to map all of functionalities I wanted.
Now I can use the left analog stick to move the cursor (which can be accelerated when pushed with L1), right analog stick as a scroll wheel, right buttons as a left/right click, R1/R2 as Expose/Dashboard, and then use the arrow keys as arrow keys and also a replacement of Apple Remote when pushed with L1 button (using RemoteBuddy's Virtual Remote functionality), etc. etc. I'm so happy to be able to ditch my Apple Remote from my living so I can just keep it only to use in conferences with Keynote ;)
The only problem is that RumblePad consumes a lot of battery and needs charging quite often, like once in 2 weeks. I have a charger and a spare set of batteries, but it's boring to do...
