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Finding the “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” poem on the TextEdit icon was cool… but finding the Blue Screen of Death on the connected PC icon is just hilarious.

Once upon a time, Apple had a poem on their website called Here’s to the Crazy Ones — in short, a salute to those who look at things differently, as Apple always professed to do.

The poem was taken down sometime in 2004, much to my deep sadness. I thought that Apple had lost the dream, forgotten where they came from.

One of the nice parts about the new version of Mac OS X, Leopard, however, is that all icons are incredibly high-resolution — 512x512. On a whim, I thought I’d take a look at the full resolution icon for TextEdit, their default text editor. Imagine my surprise when I saw this.

Well waddaya’ know.

From a recent email to Apple:

I’ve been using the iPhone for a couple of weeks now, and while I’ve been using it, I’ve jotted down a list of feature ideas in the handy notes application. Here’s what I’ve come up with:

1) Todo list/note synchronization: the iPhone should have a todo list application that synchronizes with the todo items in iCal or Outlook. Also, the Notes application should synchronize with… something. Perhaps it will with Notes in Mail?

2) Louder speaker phone: while the music volume in the iPod features seem fine, the speaker phone volume on calls is way too soft. There must be some way to make it at least a bit louder. (more...)

So for the past few weeks, I’ve been hard at work on yet another software product of mine. It’s called Mobility, and it’s going to shake things up big time in the iPhone market, if I have my way.

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So after just about an hour of use, I’ve come to the conclusion that the iPhone is pretty darn amazing.

Want proof? How about that I posted this from my iPhone?

Update (from my Mac): Typing on the iPhone is a bit slow, but it’s really pretty fast for a mobile device, and I’m getting better at using it already. The features are phenomenal, the screen is brilliant, and overall, I just couldn’t be happier.

My only gripe is that it attracts fingerprints very easily, but that’s offset by the fact that they’re practically invisible unless the iPhone is held at just the right angle (which is hard to do ). My favorite little touch is the on-earphone... (more...)