Category: Editorial
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Reboot in Motion: Licensing BB 10 vs BB Messenger
There is a lot of chatter in the Technospere about Jim and Mike stepping down from their co-CEO roles at RIM and making way for the COO Thorsten Heins (the first?) to helm the good ship BlackBerry out of troubled waters and back into clear seas. It’s interesting that one of small pieces from this…
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On Education, Apples and Teachers
Apple has recently announced that they are going to make a play to bring textbooks to the iPad and attempt to reduce some of the burdens set out by an aging educational system. Granted, most of the cases they brought up were in fact typical of the American educational system, but many of the issues…
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Bringing Apple Back to the Classroom
I’m quite anxious about this one as I grew up with Macs in school. This was a very good thing and I wish my kid’s school would do the same instead of proliferating old loud beige boxes that no one wanted at home. If they weren’t good enough for your kids at home, why it…
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Building a Better Tablet
“In 2012, XYZ Co have to build a better tablet [..] A REAL iPad competitor” I hear this far too often, and for all the wrong reasons. Whether it’s from die hard Google-Lovers like Gina Tripani, BlackBerry-centric tech-blogs or Apple haters, the top item on everyone’s agenda is to release an iPad level tablet at…
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Happy Holidays from The Dads
Those in the know understand the draw of the East End of Long Island. The Hamptons, sitting on the South Fork of the island, are a group of hamlets, villages and towns lying along the Atlantic Ocean. The area is a perpetual playground for the rich and famous, and for city dwellers who appreciate a…
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Top 10 From The Last 500 Fat Ones
Last Week, Steph published the 500th post from on our 2FatDads site, a site he and I created far too long ago. Over the years we invited Ben, Eric and Steve to join us; not only writing some pretty awesome tech reviews and rants but also in creating the DadCast which will be resuming it’s…
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DIY USB cable repair ; challenge accepted.
I will follow up to edno’s hardware laden post (nice one, BTW) with my own brand of DIY tutorial happiness. NOTA : This is a simple tutorial and by no means THE definitive soldering How-To. I’m not an expert but the job I did with the oscillating tool, as related here, worked as it was…
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Apple Speculation Hype Cycle: iPhone 4S edition
When similar reports have surfaced in the past, pundits often speculated that Apple initially over-orders to ensure appropriate volume is available, then it cuts back on those orders to adjust for realistic sales estimates. It is unclear if this is the case with the iPhone 4S, presuming DigiTimes’ report is accurate. If you read the…
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Building a semi-powerhouse gaming PC station
The conundrum was in how to sell this idea to the better half.
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John Gruber and The Verge on Native Apps
The intersection of exquisitely-crafted native apps with ubiquitous networking and cloud-backed storage. [..] Used to be that native apps felt best but anchored your data to the device, and web apps running in a browser offered you ubiquitous access to your data but had a crummy front-end experience. We’re getting to a point now where…