The world doesn’t need another blogger raving about his iPhone, but I just can’t resist any longer. I finally got my iPhone a few weeks ago and it has lived up to the extremely high hopes that I had for it. I put my old Sony Walkman phone to bed permanently and I have to chuckle at the post I made back in 2006 calling it an iPod Nano Killer.

Here are some of the ways that the iPhone has been sucking up my time so far:

Website optimization
This blog along with my other sites are now optimized for the iPhone browser. If you are a web designer, you should definitely check out the article at A List Apart for a good introduction to designing websites for the iPhone.

Email
I switched all my email accounts to IMAP from POP. This works better with the iPhone. I don’t want to get into the details, but if you are going to use email on your phone you should do some research on IMAP.

Portfolio on my phone
As a recent convert to iPhoto, I am just starting to realize how great that program is. One thing I can do is create a photo album in iPhoto of all my design samples. Then I can sync that album to my phone and I instantly have my design portfolio on my phone. Pretty handy, or at least I think it will be.

Twitter
I finally signed up for twitter and you can now follow my tweets in the sidebar of this blog.

Album Art
Now that I have an iPod that displays album art, it was time to update the music in my library that lacked album covers. A big chunk of my music wasn’t purchased through iTunes, or is somewhat obscure, so I had a big chore of updating my songs. A big help was an Applescript that creates a playlist of all songs without album art.

Wish list
An iPhone password application that syncs with my MacBook Pro. I use Steel currently. Pastor looks promising.

This week I have been sorting through all the timelapse movies I have made over the last 3 years. It’s a surprisingly big job and man, time flies! Most of them are just sunsets and clouds, but I have also made some driving movies and other random stuff. I will be uploading them all to YouTube hopefully this weekend. I probably won’t make a post for each video I am going to uplaod, so you might want to check my YouTube page if you like my work. Here are some of the more interesting ones:

Here are some clouds taken in our back yard:

Another sunset from our office in Loveland:

Geese on a frozen lake:

My commute to work:

Stars moving in the night sky:

Driving to Nebraska over Thanksgiving: