Daily Movement

This totally describe my situation and can be related to more than just music or digital photos:

I’m finding that the “digital photo effect” is starting to make its way into my music and video experiences as well. What’s the DPE? My ability to produce and acquire has far outstripped my ability to consume. Produce from my own digital camera. Acquire from friends, family, Flickr, etc. This has a couple of ramifications:

1. I feel behind all the time.
2. Because there is so much to consume, I don’t enjoy each individual photo as much as I did when they were physical prints. I click through fast.
3. Because of 1 and 2, sometimes I don’t even bother.

— “Too much of a good thing?”

If you pay little or nothing, you value what you have that much, i.e. not much.

There is this interesting use of camera phones to get around the trouble of typing URLs. From http://www.admpartners.com/blog/2004/05/mobilizeyourb.html:

“What is it? It’s a barcode that encodes a URL. If you have a wireless or mobile internet device, you just scan the barcode into your URL field, and voila! you load the website it links to. “

However, that such a solution is appealing shows the limitation of cellphones — the difficulty in typing more than a few characters of text.

A Japanese company Reudo makes an external full size keyboard that will accept a cellphone

— similar to the keyboards stands that accept PDAs. I found the keyboards for PDAs useful, but only to a point. For entering or editing text which is hard to do with a stylus (or a cellphone keypad for that matter), the keyboard works. However, the kinds of text applications you’d want to do on a small screen are limited. For example, these work:

• shopping lists
• short journal entries
• email

On the other hand, the following wouldn’t work well unless you have a good visual memory to be able to deal with a small visual portal (e.g. 300×200 pixels) on a larger document. While such a skill could be developed, it may not be a generally useful one.

• spreadsheets
• paging through lots of text for revision
• web browsing
• most multiwindowed applications