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Hello iPad, with keyboard, I love you

January 27th, 2010    Subscribe To Our Feed

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Writers write, so they need a keyboard.

Writers with an iPhone or touch whined “I wish Apple would create a keyboard!”, because typing on the dinky iPhone keyboard is a nightmare.

Wonderful as the iPad may prove to be, the KEYBOARD is what sells it to me, and I suspect the majority of writers.

So now we have 60 days to wait, or 90 days to wait if we want the 3G version. Happy days.

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Apple Tablet: thank heavens the wait is almost over

January 25th, 2010    Subscribe To Our Feed

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Eagerly awaiting the new Apple tablet? Me too. With dozens of stories on newspaper sites and in blogs every day however, the wait is becoming tiresome. You’ve got hand it to Apple for marketing smarts.

The award for the BEST tablet story has to go to “Tablet Sutra: How Are We Supposed to Hold This Thing?“:

So, before it exists anywhere outside of our collective imagination, step into Tablet Sutra, the at-times-awkward position-by-position walkthrough of tablet handling…

That’s a legitimate point. How are we going to handle the tablet? If it’s around ten inches in size, that’s tiny to rest comfortably on your lap, as the image above shows.

I think we’re about to see the launch of an entire new industry, in Apple tablet accessories, like trays. No doubt the tray will double as a hard case for the tablet. Gimme one in purple, with a silver Apple logo, please…

Snow Leopard: the big day

August 28th, 2009    Subscribe To Our Feed

If you pre-ordered Snow Leopard, the big day has arrived. I pre-ordered, and at 9.10 AM on Friday August 28, the courier arrived. Snow Leopard was installed, and working great so far, at 11.10 AM.

The install (I used the default installation option) took one hour, and didn’t require any intervention from me at all.

Preparations I made for the big install

In the week leading up to “Install Day” I tidied up my hard drive, and checked for Snow Leopard-ready versions of the software I use every day.

Two of my favourite programs, 1Password and RapidWeaver had beta versions, so I downloaded those and installed them. (I installed 1Password after I installed Snow Leopard, because it’s SL-only.)

Just before I ran the installation, I ran Time Machine to back up, and Super Duper as well, so that I had a bootable copy of my hard drive.

Am I happy? Yes! I’m pleased I’ve done it. I can now relax. Happy installation to you, too.

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