A couple weeks ago a guy at work sent me a link to a really cool little software package called Phun. It is a very neat little "physics sandbox" as they refer to it. You can create new shapes/objects in the software and then these objects act like objects in the real world (i.e. they are affected by gravity, friction, etc.). If you haven't downloaded it and played with it - you should. I downloaded it at home and showed my kids and they have been playing with it since. They love it.

Today I read about another PC app like Phun, but done as a game - Crayon Physics. This reminded me that last night my sons talked to me about buying yet another iPhone/iPod application called Fantastic Contraption. This application is also like phun as well. So maybe this is the future direction of games and applications - working on a PC like we are working in reality. Something seems a little strange with this transition. Whatever happened to going outside and throwing the football and seeing how gravity affects it and how it bounces off your face, etc. :)

I learned something today. I learned that you can only sync an iPhone with one and only one iTunes library. I downloaded a bunch of Podcasts on my PC at work and then loaded them on my iPhone. This is the first media on my iPhone. Then I came home and wanted to put some music on my phone from the iTunes library on my PC at home. The silly thing wouldn't let me drag and drop music on my iPhone. I noticed that the option to manually manage music and videos wasn't checked. Well, as soon I checked it, the sync button lit up. I clicked on the sync button and then I got a popup alerting me that my iPhone could only be synced to one library. I was faced with the option to close or to erase and sync with the library on this PC. After much debate within my head (and figuring that I didn't have much to lose, just a few podcasts) I clicked to erase and sync. Well, sure enough it took off my podcasts. I thought, this is going to be frustrating because I want to get my podcasts while at work, but my music at home. Well, a little googling and I found a fairly simple way to set up iTunes on multiple PCs so that the same iPhone can sync with them all. Here is the blog post from Andrew Grant. I downloaded a free Hex Editor HexEdit and followed the instructions and it worked the first time. When doing the find in the Hex Editor, mske sure you set your search "hex". A big thank you to Andrew Grant for his excellent help with this. Good Luck!

Well, the Epix was pretty cool, but considerably more clunky than the Blackberry I used to own. That wasn't that big of a deal, however, I live in a rural area and obtaining and maintaining a data/phone connection with this phone was bad! I had gotten my wife an LG Shine and that didn't work worth a dime either. So it is back to the drawing board for now. My Blackberry worked pretty good out here when I had it, so I may go back with the Curve or maybe the Bold, or, I am considering the iPhone. Now I have to figure out how to return these phones and get new ones heading my way...