Somehow I was the one person to get in this morning and get the update without bricking my phone for like an hour. Having played with it a little bit, well it's damn cool. The NY Times app looks incredibly useful. It's all of the functionality of the newspaper without having to carry it around with you. It's the first time I've really enjoyed reading a paper on the phone. Good job.

The app that's really impressed me though is Shazam. It's completely and utterly useless but I just can't stop playing with it. What does it do? Have music play in the background and open it up. It'll figure out the song details from the noise, grab it, upload that to a database, and tell you what song is playing. Great if you're walking through a mall and, for some reason, a good song is playing. In reality, it's just something that's cool because I can't believe this technology exists. Until recently, the only way those album database things worked was through a hidden ID code; now we can identify songs even through background noise? That's a huge AI upgrade.

Current Music: Love And Rockets - An American Dream