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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s happening again. Last week, I was caught by captcha. I couldn’t read and therefore failed a captcha challenge when trying to forward a blog post from within Google Reader to multiple recipients. Just now the captcha death spiral happened again, but this time I think there’s a bug. I passed the first captcha challenge [...]
Business travel + working from home = lots of time to see movies. Quick thoughts on what I’ve seen recently, with this subjective grading scale: Must See, I Enjoyed (but you might not), Meh, Pass. 2012: Meh. Modern-day apocalypse with man fighting against man and nature to preserve the human species. If you must see [...]
Doh! I’ve been forwarding a bunch of articles from my Google Account through Google Reader. Subjected to captcha challenges, I failed to read a few properly and now am locked out of Google Reader (IP block) for an indeterminate amount of time. Bummer. The user experience here could have been better in two ways: First, [...]
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 [...]
I just have to say, that in this day and age of cold, calculated, cost cutting and crappy customer service, DreamHost chat support is outstanding. First and foremost, it’s effective. I just migrated my blog from joonsookim.com/blog to blog.joonsookim.com. I’m not particularly technically savvy — plus, I’m told I can be . . . well, [...]
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 [...]
