FaceTime for Mac Stays Resident

Forget all the iLife ’11, OSX 10.7 Lion and MacBook Air at the Apple Event today, the really fun announcement was FaceTime for Mac. I’ve been playing with it all afternoon, and there are a couple interesting things about it that aren’t immediately obvious. For starters, video quality is good (with a caveat), both from … Read more

The iPhone 4 Just Needs One Thing…

I just couldn’t afford to wait 4 weeks for my damn free bumper. The new smaller form factor caused the phone to slip out of my holster today. Can you imagine if I’d lost the phone? It’s not worth risking it, so I picked up one of the cheapest I could find at Best Buy … Read more

iPhone 4 and bumpers

Back on July 17th, I ordered an iPhone 4. I knew about the so-called antenna-gate problem, and I waited until Uncle Steve gave the word for free iPhone bumpers/cases to mitigate the problem. I’d also been down to the Apple Store and checked out the issue myself. Even inside the Apple Store it was apparent … Read more

iPad is Seriously Impacting My Blogging

Now, the debate about keyboards is mostly over. When the iPhone came out naysayers and competitors alike all said, “I’ll die before you rip my ‘real’ keyboard from my cold, dead hands!” And while there’s still people out there like that, the competitors have largely fallen by the wayside and adopted software keyboards. Adam Smith’s … Read more

iPad Notes and Review

I promised my incoherent thoughts on the iPad after days of use and here they are… in no particular order. iPad notes Carrying it is awkward. There’s just no good way to carry the iPad by itself. You’d think it would be natural to carry it like a textbook, but it isn’t. No matter which … Read more

I’ve got an iPad

I’d written up this long, convoluted post about my travails trying to get an iPad, but by the time I’ve gotten around to posting it… I finally got an iPad. I guess I’ll recount the story anyway. Let’s rewind to Saturday, April 3rd, the very first day of iPad sales. As you may recall, it … Read more