So, I’ve been in San Francisco apartment-hunting for the past couple of days (I found a place!), and the only computers I brought with me are my iPad and my iPhone. It occurred to me that this might be a useful basis for a review, so enjoy. As a reminder, I have the 64GB model [...]
iPad!
The universe smiles on me today: on the day that I finish all of my work for my undergraduate degree, my new iPad 3G appears. It’s currently doing its initial sync (photo “optimization” takes ruddy forever, and I’m only synchronizing 3000 photos). For the time being, here are my unboxing photos.
iPad Reactions
So, yesterday was the big day. The Coming of The Tablet. I’m not exactly a big tech pundit. I’ve never seen an iPad in person. I haven’t even played with the emulator yet. But I thought I’d still post my immediate reactions. The Name: It’s not that bad. It doesn’t trigger the same juvenile “feminine [...]
OS X Tip of the Day: Twitterific and QuickSilver
There are a few tips online as to how to use Twitter and QuickSilver together, but they’re lame. Particularly because they send your Twitter password over a nice non-https connection. And because I don’t like to have to choose between getting prompted to grant access to my Twitter password every time I post from QuickSilver [...]
iPhone 3G: Real-World Use
I’ve now had my iPhone 3G for four days, and I’ve had a chance to use it in some real-world scenarios. Apps The App Store is, unequivocally, the most important feature of iPhone OS 2.0. Exchange support is nice, yes, and there are lots of little tweaks. But the App Store is what makes the [...]






