Category Archives: Musings

“Deep Thoughts” from TUAW

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

Erica Sadun is a terrific dev/hacker and a pretty solid journalist to boot. She just penned an interesting piece over at TUAW regarding the iPad’s success. Though I’d quibble with some of her ideas here, in particular regarding the relationship … Continue reading →

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The New iPad – My Thoughts

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

The New Precious When the iPad 2 was announced, I dragged my feet before upgrading. A new version of iOS had given my lowly iPad new spring in its step, and I tried to convince myself that the incremental speed, … Continue reading →

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Serious (?) video editing on the iPad

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

I read this morning on Engadget that Avid has entered the video editing fray on the iPad. For $5, the same price as Apple’s own iMovie app, we now have another offering from the 900 pound gorilla of the space.  For … Continue reading →

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Welcome to my world, Tim Cook!

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

By now you’ve probably heard or read that Apple announced what can only be described as “ridiculous earnings” for the most recent quarter. The stock is at an all time high, the most valuable company on the planet; worth more, … Continue reading →

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CloudOn, Office, iPad…Oh My!

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

EDIT: upon further usage (read: real world, every day, on a variety of networks with varying speeds) I have come to the conclusion that CloudOn is NOT a viable productivity tool. There’s just too much lag. For very minor editing, … Continue reading →

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My long overdue take on iOS 5 and the iPad as your only computer

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

iOS 5 has been available for some time now. Though there was great anticipation surrounding its release, in the end for me as an established iPad user iOS 5 primarily brings important but basically evolutionary changes in how I use … Continue reading →

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iPad -> iPad 2 upgrade fever and why I gave in

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

The site’s been dormant for a while despite my efforts to the contrary. Sorry (to those who are interested!) I’ve been busy using my iPad 2 Readers of this site know that I’d decided to stand pat with my iPad … Continue reading →

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iPad 2 as powerful as a G4 PowerBook!

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

In an incredible post here, Geoffrey Goetz of GigaOm ran some fairly thorough benchmarks, pitting the iPad 2, iPad, and iPhone 4 up against one another. The Geekbench score of the iPad 2 put its power on par with that … Continue reading →

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Where did the wider space bar go?!?

Posted on March 14, 2011 by

As I posted here, in the iOS 4.3 betas there was an adjustment made to the spacebar: it was wider, extended further to the right all the way under the ! key. It was a feature that I was excited … Continue reading →

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zOMG 4 and 5 finger gestures are the bomb

Posted on March 10, 2011 by

I used the Xcode trick to turn on the 4 and 5 finger gestures setting in iOS 4.3 (google is your friend here – it’s super super super simple to do, promise). I understand why Apple didn’t ‘ship’ this in … Continue reading →

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