So we all remember Clippy, right? It hasn’t been that long since OS 3.0′s been out. But already so many people have forgotten about Ryan’s groundbreaking app, Clippy, that allowed us to do copy-and-pasting of text.

I feel for Ryan. Here’s a dude who creates something great and releases it for free to the world. Everybody’s all talkin’ great things about it, then, once Apple decides to include copy-and-paste in their OS update, everyone (including myself) drops Clippy like a bad habit.

Does anyone remember that he worked hard on releasing something to us for free? Na… they couldn’t care less. I bet he was thinkin’ “I do all this hard work, ask only for donations, which no one gives, and now… all that hard work was for nothing. I should have charges those ungrateful people for Clippy if I knew they would do this.”.

Well it looks like he’s not goin’ out like that, and this time, he’s not takin’ the same crap from people like us. Just like he did with Clippy, he’s done it again. He’s released a much, much needed feature to iPhones; spell check. But not some cheesy-*** app you type in words to… an actual “system” integrated into iPhone 3.0′s system.

I’m sure he thought “Darn that Apple, they copied my system for copying-and-pasting with OS 3.0, and then added functionality to enhance something I created from scratch…” and thought “Since you built on an idea I created, I’m gonna’ built an add-on from the text selection system you created…” and came up with Inspell.

Inspell is a spell checking system that’s integrated into OS 3.0′s text selection system. When you select text, your presented with your usual copy, paste, cut, ect… but if your word is misspelled or a unique word (i.e. “funkalisious”) you get an extra option now, “Correct”. Correct brings up a pop-up that gives you a list of words it could be, or gives you the option to add it to the directory. But it’s not just that… it also adds a red underline under all words that are misspelled. That’s the best part of all. Bring able to see, instantly, as as you type if you’ve misspelled a word, just like your computer.

Ryan’s done it again. And this time, it’s not free. I hate apps that cost money, but I totally understand him charging for this app. It’s like, screw giving it for free, if people want it, this time they’re going to make a donation… a donation of $2.99, the actual price of the app. This time he’s makin’ sure he gets compensated for his tine and work.

I wanted to try it out, but there’s no trial. I’m not buying anything if I can’t tell if it works or if it’s even worth it. Mama didn’t raise no fool, so I installed a cracked version.

It worked, didn’t slow down the system… Cydia said there was an update for Inspell… I updated it and it was actually a patch by Ryan to display pop-ups every now and then to my cracked version, sayin’ somethin’ like “Please pay for my app”. Yeah, I’ll get to that later…

So from what I could tell, it worked perfectly. Flawless in fact. It functions as if it were built right into the OS by Apple. I tried it out for less than an hour and I was hooked. ‘Ight Ryan, you got my $3.24 (Paypal). I wondered “Hmm, will this work over the cracked version?”. Sure ‘nough, it did.

I really hate the idea of spending money on apps, but the day I’ve had Inspell, that measly $3.24 is so worth it. I mean, I spent $1.89 on a soda today at a Chinese joint today, so $3.24 ain’t nothin’.

I’m so freakin’ impressed with this app. I think it’s even more important than Clippy was. This is just as important as Backgrounder, if not more important. Speed seems good with Inspell, like I’m typin’ in the WordPress app while playing net radio via WunderRadio in the background (from Backgrounder) and Inspell is of course running with the system. System speed doesn’t seem to be affected by it.

So, I’m extremely impressed. Hopefully it won’t have a negative impact on system speed later on. I’m freakin’ thrilled to have this baby.

Nice job Ryan, but my advice is to offer a five day trail of Inspell (like Adblock does) ‘cuz expecting people to pay for something without trying it is kinda’ nuts and’ll drive people to piracy.

Peace, J

So tonight I had a scare with my iPhone… I ran down the power before bed to run the battery down so the Neocell could reboot, ‘cuz it’s good to run your battery down all the way from time to time. I’ve gotten pretty good at it, makin’ sure I do it once a week (although once a month is fine).

But tonight the Neocell wouldn’t wake up after it powered down. I ****** around for like 15 minutes before she finally woke up. I don’t know what was up, but it wasn’t until I plugged the Neocell into the Neocomp’s (desktop) USB that she finally woke up. Freakin’ phew man…

Well this got me thinkin’ about external batteries. I’ve been real happy with the battery life of the Neocell, but I think it’d be a smart idea to get an external battery charger.

I don’t know much about’em, so I figured I’d ask you all. Do any of you have one? What type you got? How much of a charge does it give you and how long does it take to charge?

Peace, J

Well Adblock’s safe to buy for OS 3.0 now. It took the developers weeks to update their product for OS 3.0, and worst, they didn’t even offer up any explanation and people were complaining that they weren’t even responding to emails. So I told people not to buy from them until they got their **** straightened out.

They have now, and they’ve updated Adblock so it’s safe to buy it again if you use OS 3.0. And if you bought it before OS 3.0, like I did, your license will work for the 3.0 version.

Ahh… enjoy ad-less browsin’ again.

Peace, J

For me, I’ve joined the whole unlimited mobile Internet game late. So one thing I’ve noticed is how fast T-mobile’s Edge (2G) Internet is. I mean long before I had mobile internet, I heard stories about it, how it was slow and how even 3G wasn’t that fast… at least all of these stories were for AT&T, and if any of them were talking about T-mobile, it was from like 2007 when iPhones first came out.

But I’ve noticed that my T-mobile 2G Edge seems to act, well… almost as if I had 3G. It’s very fast. In fact, I’ve noticed simple pages like news.google.com load up about the same speed as iPhones on AT&T’s 3G.

I started thinking about this… why would T-mobile give such good speed to their 2G network? All of their smart phones access their 3G network… and I’ve heard so many complaints of it’s 3G speed compared to AT&T’s 3G speed. I know T-mobile’s 2G’s network used so be dirt slow, but now they’ve put so much quality in it. Why bother when most complain about T-mobile’s 3G? After all, the only ones on T-mobile that even use 2G to the full extent are… iPhone users, that’s it!

That’s why T-mobile’s Edge is so fast and reliable now. It’s because of all the iPhone users. Any model iPhone unlocked and running on T-mobile are only able to access their 2G network. Makes perfect sense. They have virtually no new phones that use the 2G network, so T-mobile boosting it’s 2G network makes it’s iPhone users happy. After all, if people bring their iPhones over to T-mobile and are then let down by sluggish 2G speeds, they’ll jump back to AT&T.

Keeping T-mobile’s Edge boosted helps them steal AT&T iPhone customers, and because they’re paying for the 3G network speeds anyways, but can only access 2G… so it’s only in their best interest.

Now, I can’t speak for all areas… but in the Tampa Bay area, T-mobile’s Edge is nice ‘n’ fast. I took some speed results from the Neocell to show what I mean…

Peace, J