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ZDNet says Windows is Dead

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

Wow. ZDNet usually sides with Microsoft, as Slashdot points out. This is pretty interesting. http://m.slashdot.org/story/184811 About these ads

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Getting a sense for the size of the iPad mini

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

Here's an interesting trick. If you have an iPhone 5, try holding it in one hand in landscape. The iPad mini is a little less than 1/2″ wider than that. However the ipad mini is also ever so slightly thinner, … Continue reading →

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iPads in schools: a missed opportunity (?)

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

Here’s an interesting piece discussing the use of iPads in schools, and the (thus far) missed opportunity for Apple to really push iPads into the education market. The premise is interesting: Apple should be offering educational bundles…keyboard docks, cases, app … Continue reading →

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App Lock: locking down the iPad for business use, and why this is not necessarily a bad thing

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

I didn’t watch the iPhone 5 presentation from start to finish, but Apple apparently described additional features in iOS 6 that we hadn’t heard about before including App Lock. It does exactly what it sounds like: it locks the 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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4.3 brings a wider spacebar!!!

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

I’ve groused about the width of the space bar (or more precisely, its narrowness) and now 4.3 has fixed it in exactly the way i’d hoped. In iOS 4.3 the spacebar now extends a full key further to the right, … Continue reading →

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100 million ipads through 2012?

Posted on July 20, 2010 by

I like it. I usually take the Over wrt iPad sales forecasts. But this one is aggressive! Still, I’ll take the Over

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And away we go again…

Posted on February 12, 2010 by

Macrumors reports of word from Flurry that the number of devs registering to integrate Flurry analytics into their apps spiked just before/as the iPad was being announced. I take this as a sign that the iPad, with its larger screen, … Continue reading →

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And away we go…

Posted on February 11, 2010 by

While hardly definitive, reports today that Microsoft Senior Product Manager Mike Tedesco indicated that the MBU at Microsoft is “looking at” developing a version of Office for the iPad can be described as nothing less than great news. Not so … Continue reading →

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New (?) cool info on PDFs, printing, and file sharing…

Posted on February 9, 2010 by

…with a tip of the hat to ‘jeznav’ on macrumors.  Re: PDFs, printing, and file sharing: Yes it can according to Whats new in iPhone OS 3.2 “PDF Generation The UIKit framework (UIKit.framework) includes new functions for generating PDF files … Continue reading →

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