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A friend bought me a harmonica as a birthday gift yesterday. It’s a simple device with ten holes, breathing in or out on which will produce different sounds. So you’ve effectively got 20 notes to play with. Producing chords is quite easy, just play through multiple holes at once.

The brand is German, after speaking with a German fellow tonight I discovered the instrument is quite popular over there. Go figure!

So far I’ve been reading tutorials on how to hold the instrument and the skills one should build. Via personal experimentation though I’ve discovered the most critical requirement to learning the harmonica:

• Put a Bob Dylan album on before you start.

People complain that the iPhone doesn’t have a copy and paste text capability. I imagine this is a user interface design issue that Apple has been sitting on the fence with for a while.

This will sound crazy but… there actually is a copy/paste function in the iPhone, only it’s not for text specifically. It works for images, effectively print screens of your iPhone’s display. To demonstrate I’ve “print screened” a photo album of comic pages I’ve tried dropping on the iPhone. Unfortunately the iPhone auto compresses images to an uncontrollable degree and hence the comic panels are difficult to read (I’m working on a way around this.)

Furthermore I’ll use the screen capping to show you how you can check your 3G cellular usage in the Settings area of the iPhone:

And your “Cellular Network Data” is shown at the bottom. Not too shabby!

How do you print screen the iPhone you ask? Click the home and the off keys simultaneously. In other words, the front face button below the screen and the button on top of the iPhone to the right.

The screen will flash white and you’ll have captured your current display!

This is an effective alternative to sending a person someone’s contact details. Unfortunately since the iPhone doesn’t support rich SMSs via MMS you can only email this image data. Cool stuff nonetheless!

I’ve been served a pretty terrible attempt at a latte while I’m waiting for my hairdresser appointment. Luckily I have the iPhone to keep me company.

3g works fine in this store and I gtalked successfully to friends via gtalk. However, 3g on the train was pretty unstable. Until optus improves the network I think I’ll be sticking to emails on the train while it’s at the stations.

I’ve also bought a case for it, the brand is griffin if your looking for one. I’d say it’s the best I’ve seen so far.

Lastly, let’s try uploading photos of my new cut from the iPhone