Posts tagged ‘ipad’
iBooks Author
January 22nd, 2012 at 12:44 am by Dr. Drang
Between Kieran Healy, Glenn Fleishman, Andy Ihnatko, and John Siracusa, almost everything I might have said about iBooks Author at this early date has already been said. Kieran and Glenn made the point that we’ve been hearing about computer technology revolutionizing education for decades—Kieran even got off a joke comparing iBooks Author to Encarta, something…
Office on the iPad
November 30th, 2011 at 8:31 pm by Dr. Drang
David Sparks has a typically smart take on the rumor that Microsoft is developing a version of Office for the iPad. He thinks it’s a good idea for Microsoft, and if you think otherwise, reading his post will probably convince you you’re wrong. When I saw the rumor, my first thoughts were on a different…
Codify for iPad
October 30th, 2011 at 7:32 pm by Dr. Drang
I’m a little embarrassed that this old post of mine keeps generating steady traffic. It’s entitled “Scripting and the iPad,” and I imagine everyone who finds it through Google has high hopes that it’s going to tell them how to use Python or some other scripting language on their iPad. Of course it doesn’t. The…
Right
August 24th, 2011 at 11:45 pm by Dr. Drang
The unique thing about Steve Jobs isn’t his attention to detail, isn’t his incredible focus, isn’t his good taste in product design. These have all been a part of his success, of course, but lots of people are focused and detail-oriented. Relatively few, especially in the tech business, combine that with good taste, but they’re…
Fonts and ū—
September 22nd, 2010 at 9:02 pm by Dr. Drang
Since Merlin took the piss out of this pompous writeup earlier today, you’re probably already familiar with Writer, a new text editing app for the iPad. I’ve never had any desire to use these “distraction free” editors, but there’s one part of Writer in which I’m very interested. This tweet from Charles Turner (@vze26m98) gave…
Structural analysis and the iPad
April 22nd, 2010 at 3:02 pm by Dr. Drang
If you’re curious about the iPad, you probably read this iFixit article, documenting the disassembly of an iPad. I thought it was well done and quite fun to read, but I was brought up short by this bit of design interpretation in Step 29: The glass seems quite thick (~1.18 mm), which is not a…
Scripting and the iPad
April 6th, 2010 at 9:20 pm by Dr. Drang
I’m happy to see that Alex Payne has retracted some of the ill-considered things he said about the iPad back in January. While it would be nice to think that his change of heart came from listening to his elders, the real reasons he no longer thinks of the iPad as the harbinger of a…
Misty water colored memories
January 30th, 2010 at 4:12 pm by Dr. Drang
Among the many disadvantages of middle age are: the loss of suppleness in both your mind and body; the simultaneous loss of hair where you want it and growth where you don’t; and the recognition that people in Cialis commercials are meant to represent you (albeit much better looking). One of the few advantages is…
The iPad checklist
January 28th, 2010 at 12:03 pm by Dr. Drang
Early on in yesterday’s presentation, Steve Jobs listed seven tasks the new iPad had to be better at, when compared to either a smartphone or a notebook computer, to justify its existence. Every task on the list had its own little section of the presentation, and at the end Jobs basically said “We think we’ve…
