Funkadelic Playground Thoughts from The Shrop

In the short video below, Steve Jobs talks about marketing a company's core values so that the company is meaningful. Keep the message simple and don't let mixed messages confuse customers about what your company is really about.

Does your church market its core values well? Do web site visitors, fist time attenders and even members/regular attenders get what your church is about? If not, you may want to rethink how you market your church's core values.

I feel like one of the lucky US iTunes users who was able to quickly purchase the application NetShare while it was available in iTunes for a few hours two weeks ago. NetShare allows you to surf the web on a wireless computer/laptop using your iPhone's Internet connection.

I have used MAMP for a long time, but I recently decided to build a development environment on my MacBook Pro to mirror my test and production servers. MAMP uses Apache 2.0 and I really wanted to run Apache 2.2. I also needed custom PHP for use with Oracle databases. I just want

ed to share the documentation to setup my development environment. Feel free to comment and let me know if you have any improvements.

Wow one million phones! Read about it via the link below:

[From Apple sells 1 million iPhones, 10m app downloads | 9 to 5 Mac]

Other thoughts about my 3G iPhone adventures since Friday:

• Got in line around 6:40 am Friday for the 3G iPhone purchase. Walked out the door with a working 3G iPhone around 10:30am and a non activated 1st gen iPhone for my Wife. Wasn't able to activate her phone at home till around 4pm due to the iTunes activation issues. I then restored her iPhone to the official 2.0 firmware without restoring data so she had a fresh phone to start. She loves it BTW!

After 90 shows, Steve Stanger is stopping production on The Mac Attack podcast. His web site will remain online for the foreseeable future due to the donations of some of his listeners. Steve is going to pursue other projects, including podcasts. He has not ruled out starting The Mac Attack back up at some point.

The video below would have saved me a ton of time yesterday! Thanks to www.appleiphoneschool.com for the news on this video.

I was jazzed about the WWDC Keynote before it started yesterday. I was all setup with twitter, ichat, plurk, macrumors, engadget, ustream audio, etc. The live ustream audio feed was very helpful. Thanks to my friends for pointing me to that link. I will catch the full video tonight on my AppleTV so I can get the full experience.

Gruber wrote a great post about the new fixes for Spaces in OS X 10.5.3. I have been a big fan of Spaces, but have had the same problems with it that many have had. ex: Spaces switching without me wanting them to switch. Check out the article below.

Well, it looks like the 3G iPhone will not only be announced on June 9th, but it will also be available immediately. I cannot express in words how excited I am.

http://gizmodo.com/391960/iphone-3g-launch-date-confirmed