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) [...]
After playing again on friday with a friend’s iPad for 20 minutes I started thinking about simplified computing. Sure I love my command line, matlab, perl, python, you name it. But I also love to pick something up and not have to figure out stuff I don’t want to. I want to be productive. Quickly. [...]
Due to my computer abilities I have been appointed the lab’s internal IT manager. It basically entails nothing with the exception of communicating to the real IT people what the lab needs or fixing up some code in our PHP system for ordering and some databases. One of my duties is to administer the mailing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]