iPhone - Wallpaper

I spent some time over the weekend personalizing my new iPhone - new wallpaper was 1st on my shopping list. Here's what I picked up.

Flickr iPhone Wallpaper Group: Almost 10,000 iPhone ready wallpaper images - I'm sporting Ininja on my walls.

Iconfactory : Freeware : Desktop: A great collection of illustrated iPhone ready wallpaper images - click the iPhone icon to download.

Getting the wallpaper up on the walls of my new iPhone took no time at all. Syncing photos to an iPod or iPhone is easy. 

iPhone - Got one

I picked up an 8g iPhone from our local at&t store on Friday and three days later I'm glad I did. I love it and I can't believe I waited this long.

Shero

Just heard a cool new word for the 1st time - shero, a famale heroin. Dr. Steven Rogers used the word during the Microsoft Small Business Summit.

Iron Maiden 757

My 1st concert experience - Iron Maiden at the Cow Palace in Daily City CA. I was frankly surprised to find out that the guys are still touring and in a big way. Good post over on the Laughing Squid about their customized 757 Ed Force One. Bruce Dickinson, the lead rocker, is the pilot. Can you believe that! blogTO has more pictures of the plane up in Canada. Oh, you can book a fligh on Ed Force One if you feel like flying with Bruce.

Homer - is that you?

 

pixeloo, a Photoshop professional, answers the question - what would Homer Simpson look like if he was real? This pretty much freaked me out completely. Want more detail?

Email Center Pro

Palo Alto Software, the company I work for, is getting ready to launch a new product called Email Center Pro (ECP) next month and we're all very excited about it.

For more than a decade we've been focused on our business planning software product, Business Plan Pro, so some people will think ECP is a bit off course for us. So why did we decide to build it and take the chance? Simple. We think it can help people succeed in business and helping people succeed in business is what we're all about - it's our mantra. Business Plan Pro, for obvious reasons, has helped a lot of people succeed in business and we feel really great about that. ECP does it in a less direct way but it will help you improve the way you run your business and increase your chances of success.

Email Center Pro helps you manage shared email addresses like sales@yourcompany.com and info@yourcompany.com. It provides your team with easy access to these email accounts by creating web-based shared mailboxes that the whole team can access. You can assign messages, track conversations, add notes to messages, and use templates to respond to messages in consistent ways. You can efficiently manage more email and deliver better quality responses to your customers. See - it will help you improve the way you run your business. At Palo Alto Software, our customer services teams use ECP every day and our business is better for it.

You can learn more about the product by visiting the Email Center Pro website. If you're interested in a Beta account - leave a comment explaining why you need the product and I'll hook you up. 

twhirl

Noah pointed me towards twhirl - an Adobe Air Twitter client. Pretty cool implementation. I'm still a big fan of the Firefox Twitterbar add-on for its' simplicity.

Vista Ultimate Dreamscene

I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate at home and bumped into a cool new feature available to Ultimate users as an Ultimate Exclusive. The feature is called Dreamscene and it makes it easy to replace your boring static wallpaper with exciting dynamic wallpaper - apparently, without taxing your system resources too much. If you're an Ultimate user and good about downloading updates (even the optional updates) it's probably already installed; if you don't already have it installed, you can use Windows Update to download and install Dreamscene. While you're updating - grab the Dreamscene Content Pack as well.

Instructions for activating Windows Vista Ultimate Dreamscene:

1. Right-click the desktop
2. Select Personalize from the menu that appears
3. Select Desktop Background on the Personalizaton screen
4. Select Windows Dreamscene for Picture Location on the Desktop Background screen
5. Select a Dreamscene, your background will update, click Ok after you settle on a Dreamscene for your background. NOTE: If you don't have the Content Pack installed, you will only see one Dreamscene in the list of available Dreamscenes. The Content Pack brings the number closer to ten.

Dreamscene is working pretty well for me on my modestly equiped Lenovo laptop so far. I like the liveliness it brings to the background - I have a rainy day scene running for my background. Oh, Dreamscene is also smart enough to go into a static state when the laptop is running on battery power. If you are a Vista Ultimat user - it's worth a look.

 

BigDog. My next dog?

Boston Dynamics is working to build my next dog, and DARPA.mil is funding it. Not really.

But check this crazy thing out - it's called the BigDog and it got BITE. You can see why the military is partially funding the project. Imagine how scared you'd be to sit around a fire with all of your buddies from the axis-of-evil club in the middle of the dessert if you knew a bunch of BigDog units with laser guided guns and titanium teeth were running around looking for you with infrared eyes and super sniffers. [via]

Last Lecture

Sabrina Parsons, CEO of the company I work for, pointed me towards a YouTube video this morning that I want to share with all of you. In this video Dr. Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, gives his last lecture and in doing so creates a very real gift that's both inspiring and motivational. Best wishes Randy.