One of the small enhancements to the 3.0 version of the OS for the iPhone is the ability to email more than one picture at a time.  When you go to your photos and view all of the pictures in the album, you now have a arrow icon in the lower left corner.  This icon gives you the option to select various photos and perform an action against them.  You have 3 actions available: Share, Copy and Delete.  Share is nice because it allows you to select up to 5 photos and and email them to someone., but you will notice that it it disables after you select more than 5 photos.

So how do you share more than 5 photos at a time?  Easy, just select all of the photos you want and then select the Copy action.  Then navigate over to the email app and create a new message, tap and press into message body area to get the new paste menu.  Once you select paste, all of the images that you copied when in the photo album will appear in your message.  Provide a recipient and subject for your email and click send.

Enjoy!

So this is probably no secret, but I am a gadget freak.  Always have been, and probably always will.  So needless to say, I think the iPhone is the best gadget out there right now.  Yes this is very “Fanboyish”, but I do believe it to be true.  So how does a true fanboy use his iPhone to get through a day with his family?  This should be interesting since I am heading to a water park and you would think a gadget would not get used much, but lets see:

1. The plan for the family trip was to go to Waterworld (recently featured on the travel channel as the 3rd best water park in the US)  in Denver.  As most people do these days, I had to make sure that I had my directions since it had been a while since I have been there.  Normally, I would track down the laptop or go to my desktop, but no need this time.  Just opened up google maps and was able to track down my directions.
2. Once I had my directions, next up was to get the weather forcast.  As I had done numerous times throughout the week, I just fired up the Weahter Chanel app and checked the forecast.  I was glad to see that it was going to be partly cloudy and in the high 80’s.
3. The drive to Waterworld was just over 1 1/2 hours from my house, and on my way up I had to shoot a quick text to my brother in law to let him know we were on our way to pick him up.
4. Throughout the drive, my iPhone became in car entertainment.  My wife and kids stole the phone to check Facebook and play some games.  I think my wife even listened to a few tunes on the way up.
5. We got to the park early, so while waiting for the park to open I decided to check some news to see if anything exciting was happening, and thankfully there wasn’t.  What I did find out was that the park offered free Wifi.  Nice!, Very Nice!
6. Once in the park and we got situated the iPhone got stored in the locker and it did not see any action until around lunch time.  At this point, it was time to relax a bit since the heat was kicking in and we were getting a bit tired.  While lounging and watching my kids in the wave pool I decided to fire up Google Reader and check out some blogs.  After a bit of R&R, the iPhone went back into the locker and we went on to enjoy the rest of the water park.
7. We stayed at the park until it closed, and on the way out we saw some storms moving in and we also had to track down a place for dinner.  So of course, we tried out a few apps on the iPhone to help us with this.  First, we fired up google maps, iWant, and Yelp to see what was in the area.  We ended up passing on a sit down place because we just wanted to get home, so we hit a fast foot joint near by.
8. While on the interstate I had my wife pull up the local radar on the Weather Channel app to see what kind of weather we were going to hit.  Come to find out that there was a servere thunderstorm warning and of course that slowed traffic down a bit.  But its okay, my wife was able to hop on Facebook to pass the time.  This time around, my kids weren’t asking to play on the phone, since they were passed out in the back seat.
9. By the time we finally got home, my phone was down to about 35% battery life left, so I decided to put it to bed for the night and let it recharge.  I wasn’t too far behind it either.

So as you can tell we were still able to make pretty good use of the iPhone even though we were at a water park.  I know some people will say, “hey, just enjoy your time with your family” and I can respect that, but the iPhone is a convienence gadget and it helps me unwind by doing some light reading or playing some games.  My wife picks up a good book, I pick up my iPhone.  I also made sure that I wasn’t getting too wrapped up with the iPhone and enjoyed the water park just as much as my kids did.

There were also signs that this is the future and more and more people will expect to be connected, even at a water park.  There was evidence of that the minute I entered the park and saw the big sign that said “Free Wifi”.  I will also mention that I was not the only person at the water park on their iPhone.  Right now it probably was probably other iPhone fanboys that I saw, but as the smart phone market continues to grow more and more average people will expect more and this will become the norm.