iPhone and iTunes wish list 376

All the previous 375 ideas have been quickly forgotten.

Iphone Syncing

When the iPhone syncs it doesn't remember the track I was listening too. This is a problem for me because I listen to long podcasts. They can be an hour and a half long - Too long for me to finish in my commute to work.

Multi-tasking in iTunes

It would also be nice to have tabbed browsing in iTunes so I can be sorting my podcasts and choosing music to listen to. I also don't like to jump out of lists to go to the iTunes store. There could also be an icon to show which playlist the current playing track is in. So when I'm sorting other playlists I can return to the playlist I'm currently listening too.

Priveleged jobs

Tim Colebatch writing in The Age calls for emissions trading to be delayed to protect jobs. This is a worthy sentiment on the surface, except that it's not backed up by proof. How can the assumption that emissions trading will cause a net loss in jobs be tested? Are existing jobs more important to the economy in the long term than the creation of new jobs?

Job losses cause trauma, family upheaval and stress and I'm not diminishing that or wishing it upon anyone. If unemployment was handled better in this economy then it may allow for faster innovation and adaptation. The shifting of risk onto the individual has made people more exposed to change and more vested in the status quo.

I wonder if boom times suppress innovation. Change is uncomfortable and when money is easy you don't need to engage in disruptive change to increase productivity. We should be on a war footing in tackling the risks of global warming. When pushed, necessity is the mother on invention.

Government's bluff called on water

The 155 litres per day limit seems to have failed. I wonder if the practical limits on saving water after repeated calls to reduce consumption have been meet. The people who care about reducing consumption have either modified their behavoiur or spent the money they are willing or able to spend on grey water systems etc. The ones that don't care at all are not facing any penalties yet.

Limiting showers, water saving showerheads and toilets, using greywater and tank water for the garden will only get you so far. To go beyond this would require spending serious money which would have the risk of subsidising others making no effort. The savings in money terms of reduced consumption would not be captured by the individual at present.

Carrying around buckets of water have made me think about how poorly our built environment manages water in the current conditions. The built environment in part is a response to making life easier and the fact that we live on a dry continent has had precious little impact.

Taking a screenshot on an iphone

I discovered this today. Probably already documented - but as we all know only sadcases with too much time on their hands RTFM.

Press the top on/off button and the front button simultaneously. You will hear the screenshot sound and the screenshot will appear in your camera app's album.