Tag: iPad
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The Office Paradigm
Everyone uses Office right? In fact most people think that Office comes standard with Windows or any new PC you might buy. The reality is that the next generation of computing users think that Office only exists on the PC and some might have seen it running on a Mac or a tablet computer. Sugar…
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Best Kept Traveller Secret: iPad Mini
This past summer I was lucky enough to travel to the UK for an entended visit with family and friends and for the first time I decide not swap out my iPhone SIM card, I always try to travel to a different country every year, last year I got interested on what to see in…
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Microsoft Reboots Surface Into a Serious Tablet Contender
This is the new tablet that was announced by Microsoft last night. This not the crappy prototype [table](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/pixelsense/default.aspx) we all saw a few years back as CES. By the way the original table is now called NONPixelSense is In fact, the hardware is manufacturer by Microsoft. Not an OEM and not a partnership. Steve Ballmer…
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Ars Gets Hands On With Diet Coda
>The Diet Coda application seems to have been tailored [..] for quick editing on the fly. The application gives you a frictionless way to get into your Web content and start making changes without having to jump through a lot of hoops. It’s especially effective for users who are working with a lot of static…
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iPad@Work: Don’t Blame The Players
>When the district sales managers of a luxury retailer logged into their corporate email accounts on shiny, new iPads for the first time, at the same time, cheers went up. >But something else went down: the Lotus Notes server. >Imagine all those iPads simultaneously downloading the full dump of Lotus Notes. Don’t point the finger…
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Ditching The Laptop
Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of good stories of various users ditching their laptops for most of their day-to-day task and simply taking their iPads everywhere they go. Two of the biggest names in the Technorati to do it are Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago SunTimes and Shawn Blanc. I will even admit to…
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DadCast Episode 45 • What to Wear in the Spring: 25 Must-Have Men’s Spring Essentials
This post may contain affiliate links. (What’s this?) When it comes to mens spring fashion, guys face a few challenges. For one thing, spring weather doesn’t dictate our wardrobes nearly as much as winter weather does. (When there’s four inches of snow on the ground, you have to wear boots.) This means that in the spring we actually…
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FAA Reviewing Policy on Electronic Gadgets
So they’re finally going to considering letting us do what plenty of people already do: get in one last e-mail as the plane accelerates down the runway! How many times have you been getting on to a flight and seen the people around you tapping away on their Blackberry? I was always told they have…
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My weekly Dad’s reads, March 5th to 11th 2012
My favourite articles of the week: Raspberry Pi (momentarily) more popular than Lady Gaga… Amid ETF hoopla, don’t overlook index funds Buried deep in this article is the the little tidbit that a few online brokers, Scotia iTrade, Qtrade and Virtual Brokers, offer commission-free ETF’s (not all, but some) Can Dell Slay the Leviathan With…
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Gruber on MS Office and the iPad
Another long-term strategic angle: does Apple want to lend credence to the notion that Microsoft can write first-class touchscreen tablet apps, when Microsoft is set to ship its own tablet-savvy version of Windows later this year? Heir Gruber makes a very good point here, however after seeing and pioneering iPad adoption in the enterprise first…