31 Oct, 2007
Posted by: Dave In: Apple| Communication| Google| Usability| Web
The good: Google introduced IMAP protocol for Gmail, allowing multiple platforms (web, phone, desktop application) to synch gmail seemlessly. For example, if I delete an email from my desktop Mac Mail application, it will be deleted across all the access points I use to manage email. Or so the theory goes.
The bad: It’s a fucking [...]
Apple released a bunch of new iPods today. They look pretty neat. I wonder if the iPhone will lose any sales to the new “iPod Touch”? They seem pretty similiar. The iPod Classic (the name gives me flashbacks to Coke Classic) just got a huge bump in storage to 160GB and the iPod Nano [...]
Forty-five minutes after the coveted iPhone went on sale, the folks at iFixit have taken one completely apart. Pretty confidently, I must say.
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-Dave
I stayed up until midnight last night noodling around with my new laptop. Justine is usually my egg timer for when I’ve been in front of the computer too long. Most nights she wanders into the office and reminds me that I should go to bed at some point.
Last night she left me [...]
I am in the process of installing Adobe CS3 into my brand spanking new MacBook Pro tonight. It is possibly the most beautiful piece of hardware I have ever purchased. I am looking forward to exploring all the cool things it can do.
More excitement to come.
-Dave
17 May, 2007
Posted by: Dave In: Apple| Books| Food & Drink| Science
Walter Isaacson’s new Einstein biography is pretty good so far. It’s a gigantic 700 page tome that I have just started to read last weekend. I’m hoping the physics (when I get to that section) will be easily digestible for someone like myself who doesn’t have a professional background in the hard sciences.
I’m [...]
