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iPad setup time is negligible.

by F. E. Torkel on November 1, 2010

Following up on our comments regarding the iPad and MacBook Air, we’d like to address Ben Brooks’ arguments about the iPad being more cumbersome in a classroom setup, which we find to be blatantly bunk. …think about how much more cumbersome setting up an iPad for note taking would be if you add a keyboard [...]

Automobile audio done right.

by F. E. Torkel on July 19, 2010

When the mp3 was created, it didn’t take long before people wanted a way to play these digital music files in vehicles. Juggling cassettes and compact discs was cumbersome, and “skipping” discs were exceptionally annoying. The mp3 was a perfect solution for audible, mobile content, but the adoption of this format has hardly been seamless. [...]

Microsoft Kinect: a cute novelty.

by F. E. Torkel on June 29, 2010

We haven’t weighed in on Microsoft’s Kinect (formerly “Project Natal”) because we haven’t seen anything exciting about it yet. Maybe it’s better than Sony’s Move, and advancing what the Wii provided from a technological perspective. But let’s step back for a moment and look at where this all began, with Nintendo’s current console offering. We [...]

Heat: an unaddressed iPhone issue?

by F. E. Torkel on June 21, 2010

We didn’t give much thought to iPhones overheating last summer, when reports were going around about iPhones shutting down after a certain internal heat threshold was met. But that’s because we never encountered this behavior, since we evidently didn’t put our iPhone through these types of paces. Things took a turn when we began using [...]

iPad extensibility: the key is in the adapters?

by F. E. Torkel on January 28, 2010

While the iPad won’t sport much more than a dock connector for interfacing with other devices, that dock connector may be pretty flexible. In addition to the obvious use for syncing iTunes media to and from a Mac, Apple will offer numerous adapters. For instance, there will be a camera “kit” consisting of an SD [...]

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