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My second iPhone App “SpeedMemo” has been released on App Store. You’re able to download this app here.

Have you ever forgotten important ideas or to-do list? “SpeedMemo” is application specialized in taking the memo fast. You can take memo as soon as it starts up. After you save memo, you can e-mail memo, tweet it to Twitter and save it on Evernote.

It supports the latest technology of Evernote. You know, Evernote launched “Emailing Into Evernote Just Got Better « Evernote Blogcast“. It’ very easy to save everything on Evernote.

Please try this new app and review it if you like.

My first iPhone App “Translator - in your hands” and “Translator Lite - in your hands” have been released on App Store. They are very simple applications. You’re able to translate lots of languages from your native language with these apps.

“Translator Lite” is free, and helps you to translate quickly. It supports Google Translation Service and Microsoft(Bing) Translation Service, and you can select them as you wish. If you are foreign language learner, it must help you. Please try it.

“Translator” is paid application. It has bookmark, Twitter and mail supports. You can bookmark the result of translation if you think the result is good. Twitter support makes you to tweet the result directly. It’s very easy operation. If you have many chances to mail with foreigners, it must be great time saver for you.

The back-end of these iPhone apps use Google App Engine with Python. Google App Engine is one of the best platform as a service in my opinion. It’s easy to control the scalability of apps even though it’s difficult to move apps on it into other platforms like LAMP. I need to learn it more.

Google Chrome for Mac has been released. It seems to have full functions, is just an official developer preview. Anyway, It’s good news for lots of Mac OS X users including me. We can download it from Google Chrome for Mac. You have to check it out if you’re a Mac user.
My review of Google Chrome for Mac; It has very simple UI, good-looking and is working as lightly as Safari. Firefox is more powerful than Google Chrome if you live on a web browser all the day; where is mouse gesture? where is Greasemonkey? There is no strong reason that we should choose Google Chrome for Mac with quitting Safari or Firefox in my opinion. I’m looking forward, though, to its influence to web browser market share on Mac OS X.

iPhone has over 20,000 apps so far and many people including not geeks use it all over the world. What does it mean for Apple? Apple has got lots of platforms to drive themselves and develop their products.
The platform of product is very important for many companies. It makes money though it costs much to build it. Especially contents platforms such as music, movies and games are very strong. Once you release a product on the platform, you just focus on producing impressive contents for users. Of course you need to update your products as well as contents increase.
Apple have got at least five platforms so far : music, movies, games, applications and computing. And they have connected with each other efficiently. You’ll notice that the connection works on just one application; iTunes. We can sync all of our contents through iTunes with operating very easily. It’s not too much to say that iTunes is Apple’s platform. They are going to realize everything on the platform. What will they do next? We’ll see.

We made a reservation of new iPhone 3GSs last week, and then we got them. The black one is mine and the white one is my wife’s. I’m deeply concerned with DoCoMo that is a carrier we’ve had connection for over 9 years. Mobile Number Potability in Japan is very easy to use for us. We needed just 1 hour for the processing of getting iPhones.
If you want to know the goodness of iPhone, you may visit the other blogs. I write the bad points of it for ordinary people like my wife below.

• When we reply with IMAP mail, we have no choice except the quotation.
• We can’t configure the e-mail sounds in detail.
• It’s hard to understand whether i.softbank or SMS/MMS we have to use.
• We can’t check received e-mail writing new e-mail.

In my opinion, they are not really matter without using it everyday. I’m looking forward to how my life will be changed with iPhone 3GS.

I understand what is Google Wave since Google announced it at Google I/O. After all, Google wants to become Microsoft in web browser world, doesn’t it ?
There is no doubt that a lot of software engineers get excited about it, but I don’t think every people want it. It can be “The Innovator’s Dilemma” in my opinion. Many people don’t really want to sort everything out with only web browser. Google has holded all the power and control of software but it’s most important to suggest an impressive hardware gadget with it.

NAS, Backup, and DLNA. : I’m looking for the external HDD drive meeting these conditions.
In our house, we use MacBook(BK) and MacBook Pro(AL) everyday. MacBook is for developing web apps, the other is for managing photos, musics, and videos. Especially, remain of HDD drive capacity of MacBook Pro that has a lots of photos is decreasing according to Moore’s Law. We’ll use up HDD drive when we eat Chistmas cakes this year. Our photos is very important for us.

I’ve backuped data with a external HDD drives a few times a year ever. But HDD is not so secure that datas keep alive. I’ve backuped with optical discs too. The procedure of backup is very tough for me, even if a few times a year, so I did just once last year.

I think “Apple Time Capsule” is one of the best choice for backuping data. It has the wireless backup solution. I worry about the heat-problem and hdd system. It’s pity thas it does not have DLNA function with that we can listen musics and watch videos without Macs.

Optical discs is the best backup media ? If you have the great solutions, please let me know.