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Thoughts on the iPad

jesse — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:15:08 +0000

The announcement of the much-anticipated iPad made a fairly large splash. People seem to be very excited or very disappointed. My initial thoughts:

iBooks and entering the e-book and e-reader space is a great idea. I've been holding off on buying a Kindle and now I'll buy an iPad instead. I love the touch screen of my iPhone and would love to have one that is better for reading.
I would guess that upwards of 75% of my non-work time on a computer could be easily done on the iPad. Browsing the web, reading and sending e-mail, looking at photos, playing music and videos, etc.
Some features are missing or underwhelming. But consider how much the original iPod sucked in comparison to what it does now.
The price is right. If I had an extra $500-$1,000, I'd buy one right away.

billion songs

jesse — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 04:02:20 +0000

Apple's contest is cool. But DRM isn't.

wow — MacBook Pro looks sweet!

jesse — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:46:49 +0000

Apple just makes cool stuff. I guess I know what my next machine will be: 15.4" 1.67Ghz Intel Duo Core MacBook Pro.

The name is lame, but the computer looks cool.

Update: maybe it's not so cool after all.

iPod and iTunes in the classroom and beyond

jesse — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:50:47 +0000

Stanford is doing some cool stuff with iTunes. University of Waterloo should be paying attention.

dumb move, Apple

jesse — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:07:34 +0000

Let's hope that Apple avoids having to pay Microsoft royalties on its iPod sales. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

OS X Tiger 10.4 PGP Mail conflict

jesse — Wed, 04 May 2005 18:57:48 +0000

After upgrading to Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger), Mail 2.0 did not work correctly. I could not reply to messages or compose new messages. I looked through the Apple Discussion Forums and MacInTouch Tiger page, which helped me solve the problem. It turns out that PGP Desktop 8.0 is not compatible with Apple Mail 2.0. I searched for PGP, moved the PGPmail.mailbundle file to my Desktop and closed and restarted Mail. Problem solved.

ITMS!

jesse — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:00:36 +0000

w00p! iTunes Music Store for Canada. Finally.

Aargh! But also good . . .

jesse — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 23:38:05 +0000

Looks like the ITMS is delayed but imminent. Despite a sound warning about why DRM is bad, I'll likely download some songs via ITMS.

import iMovie clip problem

jesse — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 04:31:56 +0000

In the course of restoring my old data to my new machine, I ran into a problem with my iMovie projects/clips. Specifically, I couldn't import the clips into a new project, nor could I open the old project file. I solved the project file problem by adding the iMovie project extension to the file. The clip problem required Lennert's iMovie File Fixers. If you run into a QuickTime -2048 error, then you might be well served by trying these tricks.

I want iTunes Music Store in Canada!

jesse — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 02:11:16 +0000

Honestly, why isn't the iTunes Music Store available in Canada yet? It's in the USA, the UK, France and Germany. What about the other countries in the G-7? What about my wants?