Football season starts tonight with a great matchup… Colts vs Saints… and i am glad it’s back. with all the fantasy football i’m participating in this year it’s going to be really fun!
so here’s a couple plugs…
first, always check out TicketCity.com if you need NFL Tickets
second, if you play fantasy football… get your news and insights from the Fantasy Football Blog
third, if you haven’t played Madden 08… it’s a shame, check out amazon.com or gamestop.com or something!!
Steve Jobs and Apple have decided to start selling iPhones for $399 (for 8GB models) that were originally $599 barely 2 months ago.
Some early adapters are furious… i’m sure. i’m ok with it. i don’t usually get technology early for this very reason… that’s life. at least there is promise of $100 in Apple credit for folks like myself.
i knew the whole ‘refurbished’ iphones for $499 was a crock… it seems like Apple might have shaky knees about the number of units they’re moving. i’m guessing the first month of sales were huge… as widely reported… and then the bottom fell out. afterall when the smoke settled the people waiting for days before the iphone release got their iphone a whopping 3 hours before me… when i casually walked into an Apple store and plucked 1 of a gazillion from the wall.
anyhow, here’s Steve Jobs trying to keep the angry early adapters settled:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/
ok so i’ve had my iPhone since day 1… whenever that was… of course i didn’t activate until 5 days later… no rush when you’re on vacation 🙂 and i figure it’s time i share my personal opinions for anyone who cares. i’ve also got some great iphone links to share.
so the phone has many more pros than cons… but the price tag is the biggest con. once you get past that, you’re getting a great device. the phone… works… surprise nothing special there. however, voicemail, contact management and interface are all absolutely superior to other devices. there’s a lot of things you can do with the iphone… just as a phone that other phones don’t do. big deal huh.
how about the iphone music player.. next gen iPod.. it’s great more features… but hey… it plays music… cool it works like expected. big deal huh.
web browsing… ahh… now we’re talking. personally i don’t like reading off small screens but when you can zoom in the way that the iphone lets you zoom… small screens do not mean small text. in other words this feature is a big deal. i browse all over the place now… it’s nice truly being able to be connected to the information superhighway practically all the time!
calculator… haha… ok nevermind. there’s lots of good stuff so i like it. you may not be an apple fan or a $600 phone fan… but with a lil more time… you’ll either be using one or a clone… unless you want to end up like your grandparents with the blinking 12:00 on the vcr 🙂
so what are people searching for that’s iphone related: iphone reviews, iphone forums, aple iphone? aplle iphone? applie iphone?
so do i recommend that you get one… only if you’re rich and/or really nerdy and/or an apple worshiper and/or have anything to do with website development… or if u just want one… who am i to stop you.
here are some links you might wanna look at:
>> iphone hacks
i’ve been working this summer (and spring and fall… ok but back to summer) at Ticket City developing some really slick website features that other ticket brokers simply don’t have. This fall is going to exciting as we begin to release new feature after new feature.
for now, check out our new “Ticket Specials” page(s). if you’re looking for cheap concert tickets, cheap football tickets, or cheap tickets to any upcoming event in a city near you… then check out view our ticket specials before shopping anywhere else. If we’ve got tickets below face value (yeah… we actually do sell tickets below face value on occassion) along with tickets that have been reduced at least 10% you can find them at Ticket City >> Ticket Specials
so much more to come… enjoy!
btw, can you believe that Hannah Montana Tickets are kind of a big deal… not to me or perhaps you… but across the country this girl, miley cyrus, is getting paid as she evidently has a huge fan base!!
the san diego surf is still up… and i miss it! i was out there back in late june and wanted to post this earlier but you know how lazy a blogger i am… what can i say. anyhow… for anybody that found this article who is looking for some surfing lessons in san diego… i’ve got a recommendation for you!
chris olivas… a great guy, great surfer and a great surfing instructor. his contact info: http://www.chrisolivassurf.com/
one of these days i hope to indulge in one of these surf trips… which can include some amazing deep sea fishing & scuba diving… if you like the water as much as i do these trips look like the perfect excuse to cut loose from the rest of the world for a few days 🙂
there is still plenty o summer left… so take some surf lessons in san diego (if you’re not in san diego this time of year… get there!)
Wanna play some “free” college fantasy football? There aren’t many sites online that allow you to play in a college football fantasy league without paying… but thanks to TicketCity.com you can! Ticket City has teamed up with U-Sports (arguably the best college fantasy football site) to offer a chance to win great prizes (including free college football tickets)… all for the very low price of $0.00. that’s kinda hard to beat, huh?
create or join a league asap… get your draft on… and WIN >> free college fantasy football
if college football isn’t your thing… ’cause you’re an nfl fantasy football’er don’t forget to check up on the >> fantasy football blog
don’t forget to actually get out and watch a game in person…. buy college football tickets at TicketCity.com
it’s almost that time of year… when those who cannot do… own fantasy football teams!! 🙂
james runs a great fantasy football blog over at… where else… fantasyfootballblog.net. he and a few other commissioners and team owners keep it pretty well updated with all kinds of fantasy football news. you’ll find NFL fantasy football articles about every subject in the fantasy football spectrum.
i’ve already got catch up on my reading… becaue i see that the fantasy football blog is already running a couple of interesting articles… stuff that espn and espn2 and fox sports have yet to start discussing.
fantasy football draft day is right around the corner and i can say from last years experience… draft day is THE most important day of the season… unless you’ve got a bunch of traders in your league… sometimes you stick with what you pick til the end… because it’s better than the battered up free agents… and a week too late streakers.
so… if you wanna win… get the latest fantasy football news from the fantasy football blog!
don’t forget to actually get out and watch a game in person…. buy NFL tickets at TicketCity.com
in the world of free graphics software there isn’t a huge variety… imagine that.. companies wanting to charge for software 🙂 anyhow there are a couple of powerful tools like the GIMP and don’t forget Micro$oft’s Paint… okay so Paint isn’t powerful… it’s almost worthless these days. anyhow, i’ve been using another M$ program “Paint.Net” that is a lot better than the old school Paint… and i like the interface much better than the GIMP’s.
so if you don’t have much cash to spend on image editing software and you don’t like “cracking” expensive products like PhotoShop and you use Windows… checkout Paint.Net >> http://www.GetPaint.Net
a while back i blogged about the flight of the conchords… after i saw them on a hilarious 30 minute hbo special. that was well before they got their own weekly show on hbo. that posts has some mp3’s i found from the show… and over the last year and a half since that post i’ve served up several downloads… but lately my webserver has been getting hit like crazy. so many downloads of “business time” and “hip-hop-apotamus vs the rhymenasaurus” that my hosting company had to freeze up my site for a couple of days. i made some hotlinking restrictions… so hopefully that will take care of the issue… otherwise i’ll have to pull those files off 🙁
anyhow if you haven’t heard of ‘flight of the conchords’ by now you should check them out… they crack me up. their show on hbo is every sunday night… but on youtube there are a bunch of clips of their songs… the ones one their shows are really kinda scaled down… the ones from their stand up routines are mucho better.
If you took the survey on my site, asking if the iPhone would succeed or fail… and you said fail… you’re very wrong so far. I’m personally surprised how well AAPL (Apple Computers) is doing with the iPhone… and i own one!! I didn’t think their margins were as strong as they evidentally are. I mean $600 isn’t chump change (not for this chump) but you get a decent chunk of technology for that price… lacking only in the hard-drive space aspect.
1 week after the hyped release… and way too many circulating iPhone commercials… AAPL stock rises for good reason as Steve Jobs pushes Apple to edge yet again with a product that is expected to go into the history books as one of the fastest selling consumer electronics products ever.
$200,000.00+ that’s just insane! >> source >> techcrunch
I know my brother is happy he didn’t listen to all my cuatious but neutral opinions (he’d say pessimisstic naysaying) about holding Apples stock during a risky but definitive moment in Apple’s history. I don’t see that stock coming down… UNLESS… people like me start having hardware problems. Let’s hope not!!!
