O Crominho do Técnico



Bruno Afonso's babbling and seldom refreshed views of the world

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Tag: geekalhadas

iPad can be creative at many levels

Ever since the iPad was released it has been controversial. One of the biggest claims a lot of naysayers cling onto is that it is not a creative device: It is a device that dumps information/data on you, does not push you to be creative. I believe this idea has stemmed from two sources: (1) [...]

Love for Math

Software development

Until the iPhone arrived in 2007, software developers didn’t really care much about mobile applications. Sure, there were some, but the mobile computer in a pocket wasn’t a reality. With the arrival of the iPhone, the way users interacted with an application were fundamentally different, still tied to the mouse and keyboard paradigm. Even on [...]

Opposite of Education

This attitude towards testing plays into everything that – educationally speaking – makes Americans feel embarrassed about themselves. On first hearing Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn, the usual response of a young American is not to swoon, weep or ponder whether beauty is really truth, and truth beauty. It is to ask: “Will that [...]

iPad Bashing #2

According to Tim Brady, only his type of creativity is creativity, hence, he postulates: “For creative people, this device is nothing.“ I love when people believe only their type of creativity is really being creative. It’s like when scientists only believe what they study is relevant and only that will have a significant impact in [...]

The iPad bashing

has started in full swing (gizmodo)! And yes, some of these things are true. Also true is that we don’t have to buy it. Developers can make apps for other systems, that are more open (Believe me, it’s all going to be about what apps will make it a must have). That is all great [...]

Apple tablet hype #7

Apple tablet hype #6

At 2m50s (via macrumors): “Yeah, Very exciting. Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the Tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be transferable. So what you are going to be able to do now [...]

Apple tablet hype #5

Apple tablet hype #3