In honor and memory of Steve Jobs: 2004: I’d never owned any Apple product. 2005: I bought my first Apple product, an iPod Classic. 2007: I bought my first Apple computer, an iMac, through a friend of a friend’s Apple employee discount. As of today, I’ve already owned and retired: That original iMac 2 iPod [...]
(Me and the Woz just after I bought the first iPad 2 at the Apple Store in Los Gatos) Having carelessly left my iPad in a Southwest Airlines seat-back pocket in December, I’ve been waiting impatiently for this day to come for months! I used TaskRabbit to arrange for a runner to wait in line [...]
The promise of greater network reliability? Alluring! But I’m not switching quite yet. Here’s why: No simultaneous voice and data — This is a non-starter. I frequently access the Internet while on a call. AT&T allows it, Verizon doesn’t, because of the nature of CDMA. Limited international reach — GSM is the global standard, and [...]
Curious as I performed my religiously weekly review of Gizmodo’s “This Week’s Best Apps,” I just used WetFish Software’s App Store Expense Monitor (free download) to determine that over the past few years I’ve downloaded 269 apps for the iPhone and/or iPad, spending a grand total of $596.09 on paid ones. I daresay I’m a [...]
Without any intention of picking up the latest in consumer gadgetry, I found myself in the Apple Store in Palo Alto yesterday — hey, it’s across the street from where I get my hair cut. I took a look at a display model; I saw the large, luminous display and the familiar multi-touch UI; and [...]
I’ve been very happy with my Amazon Kindle DX since I first received it in June 2009. I love books and reading but was unhappy with the clutter of three double-stacked bookshelves and stacks of books everywhere in my apartment. So space savings was the purchase trigger for an electronic reader for me. And in [...]
Core 77 released its 3rd Annual Ultimate Gift Guide (77 Design Gifts Under $77) this week. I can’t quite put my finger on why I love this stuff, but I do. Perhaps it’s the gadget freak in me. I’m tempted by the notion of assembling a silk-screening kit (make my own designer t-shirts instead of [...]
I just upgraded this morning to the new iPhone 2.2 software. For those following my iPhone trials and tribulations, you know that 2.1 broke my Microsoft Exchange integration of calendar and contacts — neither would sync with 2.1, and 2-3 trips to Genius Bars and multiple calls to Apple support didn’t help. I still plan [...]
I know I’ve been complaining a lot about my iPhone. Apple products are supposed to just work — that’s their brand — and this one just hasn’t, at least not for me. But I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel of technology torture, and just about everything’s working now, if not the [...]
A good friend of mine just asked me which Bluetooth headset she should get. I’ve done a fair amount of research here, bought a few too many devices myself and actually had planned to post reviews of the BlueAnt Z9 and the Plantronics Discovery 925. I’m going to skip those reviews and instead copy-paste my [...]
