My first song scorecard for the iPhone Ocarina: Bunkócska. In spite of the Hungarian title, this is a Russian revolutionairy song with a folklore tune, but I couldn’t find the original title originally called ‘Dubinushka’ (Дубинушка, meaning ‘little club’ – thanks, Kálmán). Alas, the Hungarian variant only barely resembles the Russian original. Here is a link to the ‘conventional’ (Hungarian) notes and lyrics. 

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So far, I had the impression that when Apple introduces a product, it has been developed along very strict usability standards and just works. One of my reasons to get an iPhone was therefore the prospect of synchronising especially my contacts, but also calendars through MobileMe and thus avoiding lengthy procedures of having all contacts up to date on all different platforms and directories I use. From now on, everything would work easily and seamlessly, as usually with Apple, I thought when I signed up for a 60 days test account.

You wish.

MobileMe turns out to be a nightmare so far.

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Having an iPhone obviously has implications for my virtual life, too. As most iPhone users are geeks like me, it was just the question of few days to have the right tools available to make a WordPress blog iPhone compatible…

So, with this post – sent through the mobile admin interface – I am happy to announce that you can now visit my blog with your iPhone as well and view it in a specially adjusted theme (I wonder if anybody apart from myself will actually do so).

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