If there was one feature request I could ask Google, it would be a way to schedule important interuptions on my life (the ones where saying no makes you evil in the sight of God and man–women too!).

I’d simply turn my iPhone off (by switching to airplane mode), but then I’d miss important phone calls from friends, family and business.

Perhaps I shouldn’t be as “servant-hearted” as I would be able to get twice as much done.

But if I did that I’d become a Ferangi (from Star Trek) which would infuriate a lot of people.

I guess for now I’ll stick to simply cutting out more sleep. After all, we are in a recession, so I should simply be gracious, kill my selfish “what the frack” attitude, and help those in need.

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Ever since Opera was able to put Opera Mini upon the iPhone, bloggers, journalists and tweetaholics have been experiencing “geek shock” that El Jobso would approve another browser outside of Safari.

Opera mini has been downloaded over 1 million times in the app store over the past 3 days and many iLovers have made Opera their default iBrowser (well, unless you click on a link within an email in which case Safari still takes over).

But enough of the Opera stats, I’m here to write about Firefox!

Last year Firefox announced plans to create an iPhone app which would allow users to surf the net outside of Apple’s native Safari.

With Opera’s approval, I was hoping that the company would seriously consider building an iPhone app, as that would give users 3 1/2 choices when it comes to iBrowsing (currently iFans only have Safari and Opera, plus “remixes” of Safari on the iPhone).

Unfortunately it looks like Firefox isn’t interested in building an app upon Steve Jobs playground, despite the fact that users are asking for a Firefox browser for their iDevice.

(Fierce Mobile Content) Mozilla, maker of the popular Firefox browser, said it does not plan to build an iPhone version of its Firefox Mobile product, and Bolt browser maker Bitstream and NetFront browser maker Access have similar positions.

“Our understanding of browsers in the iPhone App Store is that a ‘full’ Web browser like Firefox that incorporates its own Web rendering and JavaScript engines would be prohibited,” said Jay Sullivan, Mozilla’s vice president of product. “We have no insight into any arrangement between Apple and Opera.”

So it looks like Firefox is not going to invest in an iPhone browser after all, despite Opera’s success with the device.

Currently the only browser business interested in the iPhone who has a chance of getting approved is Skyfire, who is really popular on mobile phones powered by Windows 6.x (which will become extinct thanks to Windows 7 Mobile).

While I think Firefox is making a HUGE mistake by ignoring the iPhone, hopefully the company has more success with Android devices (which are starting to become really popular amongst my extended family).

Well, if you haven’t heard by now, it looks as if Palm, makers of the incredible Palm Pre (which in my honest opinion had the nicest UI after the iPhone) is dying.

According to Bloomberg (hat tip: Engadget), Palm has already seeking out buyers which range from Dell (who declined), RIM (aka Blackberry), Nokia (who seems apathetic towards the deal), HTC (who also might make a great partner) and Lenovo (from China).

While there are pluses and minuses for buying Palm on the cheap, I think HP would benefit the most because:

• Mobile street cred: Can you remember the last time HP was in the mobile arena? If you said the iPAQ without Googling, then you get a golden star.
• A better tablet: If you didn’t know, HP is releasing a tablet computer to compete against the iPad (which I’m saving up for). While it’s great that its running Windows 7, it’s battery life isn’t (translation: you need an OS that won’t kill the hardware). webOS could give them that.
• Energize on contact: Palm’s touchstone technology is awesome. Buying the company for that alone would be worth it.
• HTC: If HP doesn’t pick up Palm, then HTC will as a defensive move against Apple’s lawsuit. Which means HP missed the boat AGAIN!!!

Well, hopefully someone in HP is thinking about a Palm acquisition.

After all, HP does make some decent hardware, and combined with an awesome OS they might be able to take on the mighty Apple and settle for second place (sorry, I’m a fan of all mobile Mac products. I would be a fan of their notebooks if they were slightly cheaper. Hint, hint!).

Update (4/28): It looks like HP just bought out Palm for a little over a billion dollars!

(Mobile Crunch) Breaking news, fresh off of the wire: HP just finalized agreements to buy Palm for $1.2 billion dollars. [...]

And for all you webOS fans out there: Don’t worry — it doesn’t look like the platform is going anywhere just yet. It appears that the companies plan to continue the development of webOS, leveraging HP to “rapidly accelerate the growth” of the platform.

HP has seemingly been lightening their efforts in the pocketable mobile space lately — but with the iPAQ line and countless Pocket PC handsets behind them, they’re by no means strangers to it.

This is good news indeed as it means that my Palm loving friends can now sleep safe knowing that there is a future for the 2nd greatest mobile device to hit the market! (sorry, the iPhone is 1st!)

When the iPad was first revealed to the world I was very disappointed.

The lack of camera, flash and multitasking made the device less appealing in my eyes, making to look elsewhere (with the HP TouchSmart and WePad being top contenders–and no, I would never by a Joo Joo after they screwed over Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, but that is another story).

Fortunately, wiser geeks than I have remedied these issues, making the iPad gloriously awesome again.

No Camera for me? Think again.

Forget Apple’s camera connection kit. I would never buy something like that, mainly because its for taking pictures or video on a digital camera, which I’ve (unfortunately) come to loathe due to Apple’s iPhone.

Instead, I can simply upload images to either Flickr or Picasa, and download them to the iPad.

Video is a little bit trickier, but I’m hoping the KnockingLive will be able to remedy that for me in a few weeks. (hint, hint!)

Sudden Flash Backs

The only reason I was upset about the lack of Flash for the iPad was the fact that services like Hulu would not work for me (since their ads are in flash and no flash equals no cash).

Thanks to the boys and girls at Google (hat tip: TechCrunch) this may no longer be an issue as they converted a flash game of Quake into an HTML5 compatible game.

More sites are jumping on board the HTML5 iPad train, so this means that Hulu may soon be available plus Facebook videos may finally play in my iPhone! (and everyone shouts hurray)

Lack of Multitasking?

Truth be told the only reason I would want multitasking for the iPad is so that I can play Pandora in the background.

I could care less about instant messaging (as I hardly use it any more thanks to Twitter and Facebook) and those silly GPS apps that broadcast your where abouts globally in order to make it easier to get robbed.

But for the love of geek I would pay extra money or even suffer through a Twilight flick in order to play Pandora in the background (and no I’m not joking–well, at least when it comes to Twilight, as I haven’t seen it yet).

Fortunately hackers may make that possible via a jailbreak. The only trade off is that Skype may no longer work.

Other reasons?

• $30/month for unlimited internet contract free (everywhere else is between $40-$60/month with a 2 year contract–ugggghhh!)
• $30 total for iWork productivity apps verses $400 for Microsoft Office. And if I like neither, I can still use Documents to Go or Quickoffice apps
• The touch screen is second to none. Don’t believe me? Compare the iPhone (which the iPad is based upon) to its rivals to see what I mean.
• Between iBooks and Stanza, I’ll have access to over 500,000 books! It will probably be a million by years end! I can carry a library without having to carry a library! Plus it will work great for text books (for college)
• Netflix and ABC on the iPad! Farewell cable!

So yeah, I’m finally going to get an iPad 3G. Not when it comes out (as I want to avoid the iCrowds!) but I’ll visit my local Apple Store or order it online in late May.