iPhone! Check it out.

Apple does such a nice job right from the start, nice white bags and black boxes.

Then you get to enjoy the ever exciting "Apple out of box experience." Apple really cares about the details you see when you get a new product. When you open the box hey present the pièce de résistance:

All of the iPhone's little friends are neatly hidden below the surface. It's just nice and tidy.

But then getting it to work was another story. We don't have At&t so we had to do a little modification...

T-Mobile up and running!

What a nice husband I have to give me a surprise like this!

Update: PocketMod

Since posting about the PocketMod, I've had a lot of responses and great additional tips. One person uses theirs as a daily budget tracker, and a few of my friends flocked to the site immediately.

A reader let me know about this page, where there's a lot of extra little add on pages that people on the net have made. You will need to download the flash version of PocketMod to your computer, but after that you can add in all sorts of fun! There's pages like a random maze generator, a Google calendar sync and even movie listings.

My new best friend: PocketMod

About five minutes after yesterday's post about making lists to accomplish tasks, my sister calls. (This was totally out of the blue, I never talk to my sister.) She says, "You know how I need a to-do list?"

She hadn't yet read my blog. "Yes," I say.

"You know how I always forget to look at my Palm, and I hate to carry around a huge day planner?"

"Uh, huh?"

"Go to this website, PocketMod.com," she instructs.

Alright, now I love this little thing! It's a free little day planner that has eight booklet pages created by some clever paper folding. The website has tons of different templates for each booklet page, everything from the coveted to-do list to calendars and games.

My PocketMod for this week includes some sketch pages, a grocery list and a few calendars.

So go to the website and give it a try. A little morning origami never hurt anyone!

It's Monday

A good friend once told me: Smart women make lists.

So I make a list, because Mondays are always hard for me to manage. If I don't accomplish a lot, or at the very least gather my thoughts into a comprehensive list that will tell me exactly what needs to get done, I mess up the entire week.

Thomas' rebuttal: Successful women complete their lists.

I run those two lines through my head everyday. Motivation is a challenging mountain to climb, especially on a sunny Monday after a fun weekend.

Sometimes I'm successful, a lot of times I'm not.

A Journal #3

Look at this cool journal from Suck UK. It's everything you need, paper, pencil, good design. Just plain rad.

If only the Dollars/Pounds ratio wasn't so horrible!