With the impending shutdown of Google Reader on July 1st, a lot of nerds are scrambling to find a replacement. I’ve been in the wait-and-see camp, because several projects were announced after Google posted about shutting down Reader, and all of the existing solutions seemed hasty. One of the alternative options that I’ve been waiting [...]
A little while ago I picked up the cheapest Samsung Chromebook for $250. It’s roughly the size of the Apple 11″ Macbook Air, albeit with a much cheaper build quality. But it’s a pretty simple machine to get up and running, with the one caveat of course being the need to have a wireless internet [...]
There’s no lack of face-palm moments in the Apple new world, and I find it frustrating when they’re compounded by other blogs picking up on the ridiculousness and adding to it. Take iMore’s Rene Ritchie, who wrote about using the iPad mini as a phone during his trip to Macworld. In short, Ritchie forgot his [...]
I wrote before that I was dismayed at the lack of reviews focusing on different use scenarios with the iPad mini outside of things like web-surfing and general reading. When Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica solicited questions for her upcoming review over Twitter, I specifically asked about using the iPad mini with an external keyboard. [...]
A plethora of reviews are out for the iPad mini, and many more will trickle into the blogosphere in the coming days. The gist of these reviews is about what everyone expected: it’s too bad the iPad mini doesn’t have a retina display, but most people likely won’t care because it’s awesome all the same. [...]