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Apple has a well-deserved reputation for silky smooth designs that make things easy for users to adopt. Their mantra seems to be “keep it simple, stupid.” And that’s great. Usually. But it seems that in creating a top-notch media consumption device — the iPad — they fail to provide a way to subscribe to content [...]
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In my early years of engagement with technology in the 1980’s, there were quite a few platforms available. A wide variety of operating systems and hardware providers battled for prominence in the marketplace. If you’re of a certain age, you may smile or cringe as you think back to names like Commodore 64, Apple II, Macintosh, TRS-80, Tandy 1000, IBM PC Jr., and Amiga. And that’s just a few of the more consumer-friendly offerings in the marketplace!
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I have an embarrassingly large collection of laptop bags. This isn’t because I am a collector of them as memorabilia. Nor do I have some strange bag fetish. And it isn’t because I have nothing better to spend my money on. It’s because I have had a hard time finding a bag that works well for me under almost all circumstances.
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As part of getting acquainted with my iPad, I decided to try out Pages to see how feasible it would be for me to type longer documents on the device. In fact, I am doing so now to write this blog post. Unfortunately I have run into a silly snag. It seems that Pages will [...]
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I love the iPad. I hate the iPad. That pretty much sums up my first five days with this new device. Apple has given me lots to like about it and to give me the glimmer of hope that I might be able to use it largely as a replacement for rather than a supplement [...]
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At a dinner I attended last night in Washington, DC, one of my tablemates s said that since I was “Mr. Digital” that I shouldn’t really need to come to DC every week since I could just use video conferencing. Now, I certainly do use video conferencing. And conference calls. And 1-on-1 calls. And email. [...]
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I have automated voice mail transcription set up so that I get an email when someone leaves me a message. The idea is to save me from having to dial in and listen to a message, especially if I am otherwise occupied at the time. Being able to scan a message quickly to determine its [...]
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My early web experiences were all UNIX-based. Back in the 1980′s, I started using the text-based Internet using UNIX boxes. When I got to college, I used it even more extensively. After I graduated, the World Wide Web came on the scene and I surfed the web from Windows computers, but I created web sites on UNIX machines. But for most of the past decade, I’ve been Windows-centric with my web servers. Until now.
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Harry Balzer in today’s New York Times said: “A hundred years ago, chicken for dinner meant going out and catching, killing, plucking and gutting a chicken. Do you know anybody who still does that? It would be considered crazy! Well, that’s exactly how cooking will seem to your grandchildren: something people used to do when they had no other choice. Get over it.”
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A Non-Proliferation Treaty for Gadgets
by Chip Griffin on March 12, 2010
It seems as if we have heard about the coming convergence of electronic communications tools for years now. And yet while we continue to see ever more powerful gadgets that do indeed have greater functionality than their predecessors, we still can’t shed all of our gear and replace it with one central device. Some company [...]
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