Last night, I was finally able to view Apple’s recent education event from New York City. Yes, I had read about their announcements and downloaded iBooks Author and the new iTunes U, but hadn’t realized just how potentially game-changing these new tools are for what I do.
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Our Gadget Complicity
Last night’s This American Life featured a show about the working conditions in China that are a direct consequence of our — the West’s — need for gadgets. And while one company alone is not to blame, this show examines Apple’s relationship with Foxconn.
Atomized
The other night I sat on the porch with some friends and acquaintances discussing this and that. I had my iPad with me, and I was showing a friend what I had been doing with some old books. I explained that the process of getting the books on my iPad involved destroying the physical form [...]
New i7
That’s geek-speak for new 27″ iMac, baby! The i7 designates one of Intel’s newest quad-core processors, so this sucker is fast. It makes my two-and-a-half-year-old MacBook Pro feel like a dinosaur. Also, the 27″ LED monitor is big, bright, and beautiful. I was originally going to replace the MBP with a new one. Since I [...]
Problems Fixed!
Yesterday, I reported that my new Ubuntu 9.10 install on my new Acer Aspire 4810T had a couple of problems: one major and the other one minor. Well, as of this posting, both seem to be fixed! Sleep, what the peecee laptop community calls “suspend” and “hibernate,” did not work. The CD/DVD drive did not [...]
Going Linux: First Observations
Yesterday, I purchased my first peecee laptop to use for my daily “work.” It’s a surrogate for a broken MacBook Pro that’s running Ubuntu 9.10. After an evening of playing, I have some initial impressions, both of the machine and Ubuntu. First the good stuff. It is quick, even on my Acer Aspire 4810T’s single-core [...]
Mini!
I picked her up yesterday: my new 2009 Mini Cooper S. She only had 6 miles on the odometer. Brand new. I was actually not too optimistic about the whole process, but the folks at Mini of South Atlanta, including my sales guy Terry Huddleston, were able to work it out. I wasn’t worried about [...]