Airdrop – incoming!
It's been about 36 hours since the WWDC party started, so it's safe to say I'm coming in to this way late in the game. The developer's conference is always a big deal: fun new features, exciting innovations, and the things that always seemed obvious but were never done finally get, well.... done. Since I have a MacBook and an iPhone, it's an especially great week for me.
Everyone seems to be focused on great things like iCloud (and the small detail about, you know, paying for storage for music not from iTunes... makes sense, but... yikes...) and that low, low pricetag to upgrade to Lion. Who wouldn't be excited about a $100 drop in the normal OS upgrade?
My favorite part, however, is the AirDrop feature. Transfer files to any other mac user up to 30 feet away without any wifi or network requirements. Real life scenario: I'm at work and need a file from my iPhone to be on my computer (or a colleague's). Right now there are two options.
Option A - Connect the phone via USB to the computer, sync with iPhoto.
Option B - Add the file to my dropbox via the iPhone app, download it on the dropbox app installed on the computer.
Both are easy to do, but neither is very efficient given the technology we have available. In the age of cloud computing (which we are in and have been using in some form for two decades) Taking full advantage of our wireless technology and lack of need for a hard medium, Apple has finally made it possible for me to simply send the file between computers using pre-installed software. Drag. Drop. Done.
My Most Hated Program
You know how Word used to be pretty easy to use like 10 years ago? Heck, it wasn't even terrible about six years ago... The last time I actually used it was my sophomore year in college ('05) and I quit using it for two reasons.
1 | I pressed a random key combination trying to save my coffee pot from pouring on my CPU. Complete freak accident. Well, whatever I pressed changed the format of the page, and quite frankly I never found a way to turn it back.
2 | I got Pages for Mac. In about ten minutes I knew how to use it better than I knew how to use a program that had been required since about the fifth grade.
So, today I had to use it again, and I drew a little picture to describe how I felt about it:
