Tablet predictions, page 2
For the record, I got about 3 out of 4 correct. Not too bad.
My predictions for the Apple Tablet
Using the Prediction Score Card from Unweary.com, and time/date stamped by fax. Bring it on! NB: Of course, I could always reset the time/date on the fax machine. Or Photoshop the date. Or whatever.
I’ve been using laptops for nearly 15 years now, from an original IBM PC Convertible that ran off of two 3.5” floppies (and no hard drive) to a PowerBook G4 17”, with a rogues’ gallery of Compaqs, Dells, and HPs in the mix. And, yes, there were a few in there that I really fell in love with, like the Compaq Contura Aero 4/33 (with a nice display-mounted trackball), some random HP Omnibook (that survived a 5’ drop onto concrete at DFW airport), and the tiny HP Compaq TC1100 tablet PC (underpowered but so deliciously small). But the one that has stood head and shoulders above the rest has always been the Apple PowerBook 12” 867Mhz. Read more …
That pretty much cements my relationship with VMware
As a user of Virtual PC, I migrated over to Parallels when I got my first Intel-based Mac. However, I had a few problems along the way, and ended up buying a VMware license as well. VMware keeps bugging me to upgrade to the new version, so I was thinking about moving back to Parallels: if I have to upgrade, might as well explore my options.
However, with this ad, it’s finalized. I’m a VMware guy for life.
“That’s why Apple’s entire developer ecosystem is different, because believe it or not, Apple’s developers are amazing designers that make beautiful things, and they happen to know how to code. That’s entirely different from someone who’s the best coder in the world and trying to create something that looks, works, and feels great.”
Google Android Personal Thoughts « Boy Genius Report
Don’t necessarily agree with the entire article, but that quote is spot-on.
So how long until Apple comes out with an App Store for the Mac itself, not just the iPhone? Perhaps with a release of an Apple Tablet?
Grackle68k - Twitter Application for Classic Macintoshes
Now this is the smack. Makes me want to fire up an original Mac.
Word:Mac 2008 *still* doesn’t respond to scroll wheel movement when it’s the background app, like nearly all other Mac apps do :-(
Microsoft Word for the Mac: easy to use?
I’m a big fan of iWork (especially Keynote) because it’s so clean and straightforward. Meanwhile, I’ve been using Office 2004 for the Mac, in no small part in order to avoid the ribbon in the newer versions of Office.
However, recently the Rosetta emulation - as amazing as it is - seems to be dragging down my efficiency mojo a bit, so I decided to wander over to the Word:Mac 2008 page to see what’s up these days, and to see if the ribbon is still there.
Strangely, there’s no actual screenshot of Word to be found on the Word page, and I’m not really going to sit through several minutes’ worth of videos to see if I can find the ribbon (or not), so I decide to check out the links to the right.
First link? ”Featured Article: Change page margins.” (emphasis mine)
Something tells me that there’s still some work to be done on the Word UI.
Hurrah! Better filename versioning on the Mac!
Just noticed something under Snow Leopard, but it may have always been there:
Whenever I am editing a long and important document, I always periodically create a new version of the document and retain the prior version. Probably a habit I picked up in the early Windows 3.1 days, it still saves my bacon from time to time when the laptop goes teats up.
The process tends to be: save the document (say, “My File 3”), exit the program, duplicate the document in the finder, rename the new version from “My File 3 copy” to “My file 4”, then launch “My file 4” to go back to editing.
So for duplicating the document, you have two options:
- The File | Duplicate menu (or Cmd-D)
- Copy and Paste
With either approach, you get the same “My File 3 copy”. But I just noticed that if you Option-drag the file within the same folder, it’ll automatically increment the file version for you - for instance, creating a new “My File 4” from the original “My File 3”.
Hot damn! I’m saving, like, dozens of seconds a week here!
“Originally purchased for $1700, selling for $450/obo. Women Used!”
PAMPERED 12” Apple G4 Powerbook (Like NEW/Loaded!) “Women used!”? If she’s anything like a few women I know, the Powerbook has been thrown, dropped, and otherwise generally abused.
Why I like Apple, reason #427.1: spellcheck knows “kinda”
