A Place for a Rambling Geek to Vent

May

Tablet computers abound

Posted by Patrick Published in Geek news, General

I’m finding more tablet computers that are on par with the iPad from a spec sheet point of view, and in some key ways, are actually better. Like this one. This Eken M001 has an SD memory card in addition to USB ports. It can also hold 32 GB of info. I think it might [...]

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May

I got to try an iPad

Posted by Patrick Published in Apple, General

I was at a Best Buy this past weekend, and I got my first look at an iPad. Best Buy had a wi-fi connection so people could surf the internet. When I first picked it up, I was surprised at the weight of the iPad. It’s surprisingly heavy for how thin it is. When surfing, [...]

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Apr

Apps, Apps, Everywhere

Posted by Patrick Published in Apple, Mobile Phone, iPhone, internet

As Apple continues to push both the iPad and iPhone with more and more apps, the Android is starting to bridge the gap slightly with its own app store. The Android now boasts 38,000 different apps right now and is on pace to have 100,000 by year’s end. The Apple store already 100,000, so it appears at [...]

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Apr

This is hilarious

Posted by Patrick Published in Apple, Computers

The joke has already been done, but I’ll repeat it for purposes of this post. You want to govern a country halfway around the world? There’s an app for that. The prime minister of Norway is stuck in New York due to ash from a volcano in Iceland making the air lanes blocked. Well, the [...]

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Apr

Apple employees are treated like customers

Posted by Patrick Published in Apple, Computers

Security is so tight around the new iPad that even employees of Apple stores haven’t gotten a chance to work with the thing. I don’t understand the reason for this, it’s not like there is a secret as to the appearance or general method of operation. I would think it would behoove Apple to educate [...]

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Mar

iPad arguments for and against

Posted by Patrick Published in Apple, Computers

Are you one of those people that needs to buy the newest gadget as soon as it is released? Do you wait becuse you know that there are always bugs in the first release of any new product? MSN has a story that details the pros and cons of buying Apple’s latest and greatest.

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Mar

Some people and their toys

Posted by Patrick Published in Apple, General, Google, iPhone

Steve Wozniak, cofounder of the Apple corporation, was recently asked by a Newsweek reporter about the upcoming iPad release. What flabbergasted me was not his prediction about the iPad’s success, but the number of tech devices he carries with himself. He has, in his car, two iPhones, a Google phone, a Droid plus 2 GPS [...]

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Mar

Some iPads will ship late

Posted by Patrick Published in Apple, Geek news, General, internet

If you pre-ordered an iPad and were expecting it to be in your hands by the April 3 ship date, you may be waiting a little more. Apple apparently has so many pre-orders for the tablet that they are having trouble matching the demand. The first batch will ship on April 2 as planned, but [...]

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Mar

How will the iPad fare?

Posted by Patrick Published in Apple, Computers, iPhone

If pre-order sales are any indicator, pretty good. Analysts are predicting that Apple will sell more of the tablet computers in the first 3 months of release than the original iPhone. Now, before we all start thinking that Apple has the market cornered or anything, let’s put the iPhone release in context. When it was [...]

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Mar

Putting the cart before the horse…

Posted by Patrick Published in Apple, internet

or in this case, the app in front of the iPad. National Public Radio is quickly working on an app as well as a redesign of the website for the unlaunched iPad. The reason being Apple and Adobe’s standoff concerning the new slate device. So, it looks like with this move, Apple will just say [...]

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