Well, it’s official…my first iPhone Application has been approved and posted to the iTunes AppStore!  It’s called “Disco Ball”.  It’s a simple app right now, but I have some more touch features on the way and an original audio track.  If you have any problems with it, PLEASE let me know.  If you download it and like it, please leave a positive review.  I would appreciate it.  Check it out!!

Here is the scenario…I put a new contact into my computer this morning.  All I had was the person’s first name and email address.  I did not know the person’s last name and I thought this could pose a problem in the future, but it wasn’t THAT big of a deal.  So, back to the story…I put the first name and email into my address book and didn’t think much of it after that.  I also use MobileMe (the old Mac.com) and was looking at the phone to see if the “pushed” data was working.  I expected to see the name and email in my phone as I had entered it.  This was not the case.  What I found was the person’s full name, title, company and email address…all the information I needed.  I was briefly amazed, and then quickly surmised what had happened.  I also have Plaxo installed on my Mac.  What had happened was that I entered the information into my computer.  Plaxo immediately synced my address book with my online address book on Plaxo, recognized the email address I had for that person and checked its database for any matches.  It noticed that it had a match and then automatically updated my address book on my computer.  Being that I have MobileMe contact info pushed directly to my phone, the updated information was also placed on my phone.  Amazing!!  Plaxo is awesome!

The iPhone 2.0 Update has been released and all the buzz is starting to wind down.  Sure, people still can’t find a 3G phone too easily, but at least people aren’t really talking about that too much any more.  The one thing that not too many people spoke about at all, even during all the buzz, was the Exchange integration into the iPhone.  Maybe that was a good sign.  I have found that the Exchange integration was near perfect.  Apple promised us “Push” services for MobileMe, but fell a little bit short, however the Exchange experience is exactly as described.  The only problem I have found with it is that you cannot schedule a meeting and invite others from the iPhone.  You can receive and accept invitations just fine, however.  I believe they’ll add this in the future (I hope), but I think the fact that nobody is talking about it is a testament to how well it works.