Am I ordering the new iPhone 4S? As my tattoo says, “oh hellz yeah!”

I’m excited about the iPhone 4S and I’m going to pre-order it. I’ve heard a lot of people complain about the 4s, about how “It’s nothing new”, and “It’s basically the same as the iPhone 4″.

Here are the things that make the iPhone 4S different from the iPhone 4

• 2x the data speed
• 2x the CPU (A5 processor)
• 7x the graphics speed
• 8mp camera
• 5 element lens
• Larger camera CMOS
• 1080p HD video with image stabilization
• Longer batter life
• Bluetooth 4.0
• Supports GSM & CDMA (Use it on ANY carrier)
• Siri voice control
• Improved antennas

So yeah I guess besides those things, the iPhone 4s is just like the iPhone 4…

I love my iPhone, ive loved them all. I’ve owned every generation produced. With each release, the iPhone gets better, and becomes a larger part of my life. I use my phone a lot. It’s a mobile computer thats always with me. As an app developer, I can basically do anything I want with it.

When I ask people who are disapointed in the 4s, what they were hoping to see, the most common responce I get it, “I wanted it to be shaped different.” Shaped different! What? OK, I agree it would be cool to have a different sized iPhone, or a slightly different shape, but if I had to choose between better speed and an updated look, I’m going to pick the improved speed 10 times out of 10… I actally USE my phone.

I think more people would have been excited about the iPhone 4s if it looked noticabley different from an iPhone 4. I really think that most people care more about the status of the iPhone and the look of it rather then the utility and freedom it provides. If the iPhone 4S had a different style back, like metal instead of glass, I feel that more people would be impressed with it. There is nothing stylish about owning an iPhone 4S. The 4S update is about the “S”, speed.

Personally, I like to think that the 4S means “For Steve Jobs”. The world has lost a great visionary. Without him we wouldnt be arguing about iPhones. RIP.

Instagram is one of my favorite iPhone apps. It’s sort of a visual twitter. People post images instead of short messages. Your followers can then “like” and comment on them. My Instagram username is “JoshHighland”, follow me

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I just got off the phone with my mom. She said that Facebook wasn’t working on her iPad. Specifically, she couldn’t pinch the screen to zoom in and out. I verified the problem on my wifes iPad.

I started to dig a bit deeper into the issue. It appears that Facebook had intentionally added code onto their site to disable the zoom feature on iPads. You can read Apples documentation on how to do this here.

The question really isn’t how they did it, but why would Facebook would do this? This doesn’t seem like an accident.

Reasons why Facebook has disabled screen zooming on the iPad:

• Today, 10/20/10, was a major announcement day for Apple. It’s possible that Facebook wanted to humiliate Apple or make the iPad look weak.

• Android and Backberry tablets are set to be released soon. It’s possible that Facebook could have been paid off by one of Apples competitors to make the iPad not work so great with their site.

• Facebook has realized that hardly anyone with an iPad uses the iOS Facebook app. Maybe the are trying to force users to use the app. Personally I think the Facebook app is garbage, it’s not even designed for the iPad!

• It could have been an honest mistake. However, I don’t think this is the case. If this was a mistake, Facebook could have fixed it in a matter of minutes.

I’d love to hear some of your reasons on why Facebook is doing this to iPad users around the world.

YES, iOS 4.2 NOW HAS THE ABILITY TO SET INDIVIDUAL TEXT MESSAGE TONES FOR YOUR CONTACTS!

Sorry for the caps, but its worth screaming. Ever since custom ring tones were possible on the iPhone I have wondered why there was never SMS tones. Hell, a phone that I had 6 years ago had that ability.

One thing that does suck is the fact that you can use a custom tones. You can only use the tones that are available on the iPhone. I hope in the future that the iTunes store will carry tones that we can download and use.

I helped run the camera while my good friend Luis Majano upgraded the RAM in his MacBook Pro unibody

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hands down the best mobile device I have ever used. If you have an iPhone 3g of 3gs, you will want to upgrade to the iPhone 4

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My latest iPhone app, VegScan, has enterd the beta phase!

VegScan is a social tool / game that scans bar codes of products and allows people to quickly identify if an item is vegan or vegetarian. You earn points and achievements with the more items you add to the community.

You can sign up for the beta program at www.VegScan.com

This is a quick and dirty video of my first impressions of iPhone 4.0

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I have entered into a relationship with a new piece of high tech equipment, Drobo. Drobo is a self proclaimed “Data Robot”. In technical terms its a ASD (Attached storage device) running a custom version of RAID 5. When coupled with a DroboShare, it becomes a NAS (network attached storage) device.

In non tech terms, its an external harddrive that is expandable (up to 16 terabytes!) and can keep your data secure. The droboshare allows your computers to connect to it over your home network.

In the past I have blogged about how I love backups and how having good backups have saved my ass. The Drobo is the next evolution in my backup strategy.

I have recently moved away from my Windows Vista desktop and started to use my new Mac Book Pro as my main computer system. I eventually want to retire all the desktops on my network and run only laptops. I wanted to find a solution that was robust, expandable and allowed all of y computers to share a pool of data. After doing some research on popular NAS setups, I decided to go with Drobo.

One of the things that I liked about Drobo was how mindlessly easy it is to add more hard drives to the system. It’s so easy that I shot a video of myself adding a terabyte of storage in less then 30 seconds.

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Right now I’m just testing the Drobo / DroboShare out. Once I get acquainted with it I’m sure there will be more blog posts.