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...into my research, I saw that those who were really effective made use of not just a "to-do" list but a "stop-doing" list. I set up a time almost every day where I turn off my cell phone and do not get on [the Internet]. It's a pocket of quietude. I also leave white space on my calendar, roughly three days every two weeks. Nothing can be scheduled during white-space time. I try to create bubbles of tranquil time for hard thinking. It can also be a day where...
...know. Your phone shoots video and can handle voice commands too. But trust me: Not like this. Under Jobs' tenure, Apple has excelled in taking well-known "features" that are out there in other products and making them actually work - in ways that delight and surprise...
...want surprise and delight? One of the features in the 3.0 upgrade to the iPhone's operating system is called Find My iPhone. Say you're married to someone who loses her phone. And let's say she'd had the phone for only two weeks when this happened. Had this feature been available then, instead of resorting to recriminations and finger-pointing, you could have simply gone to your computer, issued a command and voila! - the missing phone would start beeping. (Even if the sound had been turned off. And it's an obnoxious beep too, like the ping...
...stands for speed, and true to its name, the smartphone promises to load apps more than twice as fast as last year's model. The phone now shoots video and has a wonderfully simple interface that allows you to visually "scrub" your footage - search through a visual timeline of what you shot - find what you want and instantly edit it. You'll even be able to instantly e-mail your clip to friends or someday upload it to Facebook - when AT&T gets around to it. The new phone has a 3-megapixel camera (autofocus...
...programmers are having a field day with the 3.0 operating system. The iPhone is becoming a platform for precisely the kind of cheap and disruptive technologies that fuel start-ups. The car-rental company ZipCar, for instance, showed off an app that lets you lease a car from your phone and points you to the parking space of the car itself. When you get close to the car, the iPhone can unlock the automobile as if it were a key. Seriously, how cool is that...