Monday, March 26, 2012

RANTS & RAVES: Reasons to Upgrade

I've got an iPhone 3G. You read that right, iPhone 3G. It's as slow as molasses. But, I've been holding off on upgrading for several reasons. First, I'd like to think that I'm environmentally conscious by taking longer to upgrade the device. Second, I think that the device has some life left in it. It does the basics for me. I just can't ask it to do more, which brings me to this post. Here's an ongoing list of the reasons why I really need to upgrade:

  1. Can't rotate photos. I took a photo of a sheet of paper, instead of photo copying it. Problem is I took it in landscape mode and I am unable to keep it in landscape view to keep the text upright. When the phone is in landscape the photo rotates to portrait mode and the text is sideways. My neck hurts. 
  2. Photos are very low in quality. I'm capturing precious moments in very low quality. Great for hiding those pimples. 
  3. No front facing camera. Can't Skype or Facetime. 

Thursday, March 22, 2012

RAVES: Shadow IT

Good short article about reevaluating the role of IT departments. The two important points I got out of this article are:


  1. Users really want to consume more information. 
  2. IT departments need to expand on productivity and capacity in order to meet the demand of their users to consume more information.