Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Process on Dec 16th, 2011 1 Comment »
Samsung’s New Texas Factory for A5 Chip Production Now Fully Operational If you don’t think Apple is making a lot of iOS devices, read the numbers on this: Samsung built a 1.6 million square foot, $3.6 billion plant in Austin, Texas to build Apple A5 processor chips for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 devices. Since [...]
Posted in Disability, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Social Software on Dec 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
Introducing Memo Touch, a tablet designed for elders with short-term memory loss While the implementation may not be the best, this is a killer good idea and it allows family members to log into the account and set up reminders. Of course, someone might write an app like this for iOS and then one could [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Video on Nov 15th, 2011 No Comments »
Square update Watch the video, it’s quite spectacular. I have a Square account. It’s free. Highly recommended. Works on iPhone or iPad. Amazing. PS: Thanks Edward.
Posted in Disability, iPad, iPhone on Nov 10th, 2011 No Comments »
Apple’s AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use a Smartphone David Pogue is pretty worked up over AssistiveTouch and I can see why. After reading his piece I just played around with it and it’s quite fantastic. Settings/General/Accessibility/AssistiveTouch. Try it (iOS 5), it’s quite interesting. I’m most interested to see if it might make the iPad more [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, Politics, Process on Nov 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Voting by iPad in Oregon on Tuesday Election workers are taking the iPads to disabled voters who might otherwise have difficulties marking their ballots, the AP wrote. These voters are able to pull up the ballot on the iPad and tap the screen to mark the candidate of their choice before printing out their completed [...]
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Opinion, Reading, Tools on Oct 29th, 2011 2 Comments »
Informal e-reader library comparison Marco Arment (creator of Instapaper) has done a very nice comparison of the Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and iBooks on the iPad. He’s comparing availability of content (books and periodicals) less usability of the various tools. By the way, Instapaper on the iPad is an incredible way to read articles that you’ve [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software on Oct 26th, 2011 8 Comments »
Google Reader and Mac/iOS RSS readers that sync Brent Simmons has written an excellent piece on proposed changes to Google Reader and how they might affect clients like Reeder which piggy back off it. I use Google Reader to catalog and organize my various RSS feeds and have been since I dropped NetNewsWire (which Brent [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Oct 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Ask Different Ask Different is a brilliantly built discussion site that allows people to ask questions about their Apple products and get a variety of answers and tips from others. I first heard about it back here and I decided to subscribe to its RSS feed for a while to see what kinds of questions [...]
Posted in Audio, iPad, Stories on Oct 19th, 2011 No Comments »
The excellent radio show This American Life is available as an excellent iPad app for browsing and listening to shows both online and off: This American Life iPad app.
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Macintosh on Oct 17th, 2011 6 Comments »
I just read on Shawn Blanc’s site about a new field in iOS 5′s Contacts app for adding a phonetic pronunciation of a name so that Siri gets it right. That same field is in the Address Book in Mac OS 10.7.2 so you can add those phonetic equivalents for your iPhone 4S and Siri [...]
Posted in iPad, iPhone on Oct 9th, 2011 No Comments »
Why Siri should (and probably will) come to iPad 2 Excellent speculation and discussion by Chris Rawson on how Apple’s new voice control and dictation system called Siri might or might not spread to other iOS devices. Since the iPad 2 has both a microphone and the same A5 as the iPhone 4S, there shouldn’t [...]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, People on Oct 7th, 2011 No Comments »
How about a nice Easter egg in Siri exemplifying that the spirit of Steve Jobs lives in every apple product: Question for Siri: “Where does Steve Jobs live?” Siri answer: “Steve Jobs lives in iCloud.” Next time you query Siri: Question for Siri: “Where does Steve Jobs live?” Siri answer: “Steve Jobs lives in iPhone.” [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, People, Video on Oct 5th, 2011 1 Comment »
Apple has posted the video of yesterday’s October 4, 2011 Special Event. I really like Tim Cook’s style, I think he did extremely well in this new role. No doubt the pressure was on. I loved his pauses to underscore some of this points. He’s not Steve Jobs and that’s just fine. Here’s the iPhone [...]
Posted in Humor, iPad, People, Tools on Oct 4th, 2011 13 Comments »
Seen in a comment thread this morning: Person 1: “Anyone know: what planet or star system is Jeff Bezos from?” Person 2: “Kindle.” Brilliant! In all seriousness, the Kindle Fire looks like a very interesting device. The iPad and Kindle Fire are two different things and will appeal to two different types of users. My [...]
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Reading on Sep 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Public Library Books for Kindle You can borrow Kindle books from more than 11,000 libraries in the United States to read on any generation Kindle device, free Kindle app, or in your browser with Kindle Cloud Reader. Public library books for Kindle provide the same unique features as Kindle and Kindle books, including Whispersync technology [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, Travel on Sep 16th, 2011 No Comments »
More iPads Take to the Sky With Qantas In-Flight Trial A new Qantas trial pilot program will see one of the airline’s Boeing 767-300 jets outfitted with one iPad 2 for each passenger, according to the Australian Business Traveller. Each of the aircraft’s 254 seats will have its own iPad 2, and there will also [...]
Posted in Apple, Creativity, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, People on Aug 25th, 2011 No Comments »
Steve Jobs’s Patents He’s not the sole patent holder on these but he’s been involved in pretty much everything. Amazing track record of innovation and pushing the envelope on consumer electronics. Frankly, the fact that Apple holds these patents is quite amazing in itself. [via Edward McKeown]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Process, Tools on Aug 25th, 2011 2 Comments »
Apple’s iPad Replacing Cash Registers at Major Retailers At larger stores cash registers are connected to an inventory server either locally or in the cloud. At some point someone’s going to write an app that allows an iPad to hook into that system. I’m reminded of what Apple does in their own stores: employees carry [...]
Posted in iPad, Travel on Aug 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
United Airlines Deploying 11,000 iPads to Pilots as Electronic Flight Bags Fantastic. I’ll be doing tech support on my cross country United PS flights. Cool.
Posted in Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Politics on Aug 19th, 2011 No Comments »
HP’s webOS Reportedly Runs Significantly Faster on iPad 2 Than on TouchPad It’s old news that HP has decided to sell off its computer business. The fact that the tablet and smartphone OS that Palm had in the works that HP bought runs faster on an iPad (iOS) or even as a web application under [...]
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