I bought an iPad on opening day. As I said in my initial observations, I really needed to hold one, see it and feel it, before I could have a sense of whether I wanted one.
So I wandered down that Saturday afternoon to give one a shot. I wanted to see 3 things: …
Yesterday I got my Apple Magic Mouse, and here are my quick first impressions:
Design is beautiful as you would expect Had to download the driver, and uninstall USB overdrive before I had access to all the mouse’s functions. Scrolling from anywhere is awesome Same “lift left finger for right click” mechanic. Lame. You think they’d be …
I’ve plowed through Cory Doctorow’s book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. I’ve always thought Doctorow was far too shrill in his screeds against technology companies, but I thought I would give his fiction a shot.
Good: 1. Likable if someone cliched characters 2. over-all decent exploration of the impact of radical technology changes on …