My take on the iPad – Might as well join in
Despite what my more fervent fanboi friends think, I don’t hate the iPad.
As the organizer of a conference for iPhone developers, I can’t wait to see what they do with the iPad. I can’t wait for panels on the differences, etc.
This post isn’t about that. This post is about me as a techy, power user consumer. The exact person the iPad isn’t for.
Alex Payne captures my thoughts on this really well. From a Flex Developer standpoint (Yeah that’s right hater, Flash!) I think Doug sums it up well.
I’m not gonna lie I let the rumor mill wind my expectations up more than I should have.
How Dell can survive and truly compete
The topic turned to Apple of course, the Apple tax, and what it means, and Dell.
We all agreed that we pay more, but where Dell and HP, and windowz peeps use the term in a negative, we see it as paying for a more awesome product, that is the sum of it’s parts not the parts. The whole spec comparison has been done to death. Apple gear isn’t RAM, HDD, glossy screen, etc. It’s the whole package, the OS, the industrial design, the hardware, and the overall feeling of owning something that retains value, isn’t plastic, and does what you want.
We got to talking about Dell (not sure why we focused on Dell, we probably all owned a few so they’re familiar)
One more tool in my Travel toolkit – Network Location
One of the things I hate about travel (And I really do love traveling) is my laptop doing things I don’t want it to do, because it doesn’t know we’re traveling.
Thankfully, what I assumed was just a natural state of affairs, I had no control over, turns out to be a completely manageable process, thanks to Network Location. I would have never known this app existed, if not for twitter. Someone (I don’t recall who) pointed out the One Finger Discount site, and after looking over the offerings, I was clicking purchase.
It was especially good timing. I was leaving for a trip to San Jose, so I’d get to test the app out. Set up is really straight forward. You define your locations (Home, Office, Travel, Starbucks, etc)
The things that get me, are printers, Time Machine, etc. When I’m traveling for work, I almost always have my portable HP printer, so I’d like to not have to remember to change printers.
Boxee it’s quite nice!
in the meantime, it’s been nice to catch up on shows on Hulu (when it doesn’t freeze mid show), and stream some Netflix movies. I looked at Plex, but the Boxee interface was more friendly. To that end, Nicole has already used Boxee, liked it, and managed to navigate to watch things, without me in the room, that’s a huge win for Boxee.
Sprint Mifi Review
It’s common, if anecdotal knowledge in downtown Denver that during Rockies home games, the AT&T network pretty much collapses (sad, but true). You’ll have full bars, and can’t complete a call or open an email. I’ve taken to carrying the Mifi in my pocket or backback (as the case may be) and having it on the whole time and letting that serve up data for my iPhone. Voice is a little trickier, but Skype solves that issue, if I REALLY need to make a call right then. Sad, but hey, it’s a nice back up plan, since AT&T can’t be relied on.
My review of the Macbook
I realize I’ve not put down my thoughts on my new Macbook so here they are.
It’s ok.I’m coming from a Macbook Pro. I figured I didn’t need a Pro since I’m not writing code daily, and I don’t game, so I didn’t need a beefier video card. Also since I have the Macbook Air I [...]
The Story of the Macbook pro with bad wireless
My Macbook Pro is first generation. Core Duo, no 2.
It’s a great machine, still a work horse, but the wireless card doesn’t work. Never has. When I got the machine, we didn’t have wireless in the house, so I never used it, there were network drops in every room, and hub in the living room. [...]
More browsers than I can count
So sure, Google gave Mac users the finger with Crown, fine! Google, you be that way!
I’ve been playing with a few browsers, and wanted to offer my thoughts.
Minefield is a Mac optimized Firefox. Not to be confused with Mozilla’s own alpha app Minefield (supposed to be faster than chrome).
It’s basically Firefox, but compiled specifically for [...]
Great Steve thinks we all want to look at ourselves while we code
Apples new gear is pretty neat, mostly.
I dig the track pad thing, even though gestures are pretty much limited to Apples’ own products. The 4 finger thing might be cool for espose, etc.. The instant on LED backlight will definitely be a nice touch!
The glossy screen, SUCKS. Damnit Apple! why can’t you leave well enough [...]
Macbook Touch, I’d buy it!
Yeah I know, I know. I’d buy most things mac. True. Except the new headphones, or the new Nano. I never bought the old nano, this one doesn’t do much for me either.
However, a Macbook Touch? I’ve always shied away from the touch PCs mainly because, well they’re PCs. And a pen input machine isn’t [...]
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