From the category archives:

Opinion

“I’m an iPad. And I’m a Courier.”">I’m an iPad. And I’m a Courier.”

March 8, 2010

Ah yes, the Apple vs Microsoft rivalry is heat­ing up again after this weekend’s ‘leak’ (stra­tegic release?) to Engad­get of all sorts of inter­est­ing Cour­ier tid­bits. But what wasn’t said? Are they really aim­ing at the same audi­ence? Why did Microsoft name it after a font? …more

This post is an excerpt from one of […]

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Grocery lists made easy — seriously.

February 8, 2010
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Yes, look at that head­line. Gro­cery lists. In a tech blog. What’s this world com­ing to.
But yet, if you bear with me for a moment, you’ll under­stand why this is cool.
You see, if you throw an iPhone or iPod Touch into the mix, you’ll real­ize that ‘ah, maybe that Brad fellow’s on to some­thing’.
So here’s the deal, […]

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My wife stole an amazing iPod Touch case from me

February 1, 2010
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Yep, the other day I got this cool iPod Touch case — cool because it’s one of the Pro­porta Alu-Leather line of cases that I first looked at when I needed a new case for my Palm T|X. That case, a little worn, is still rockin’ though.
It’s about the case
This nifty little holder is quite […]

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Mama’s got a Squeezebox

February 1, 2010

When I was offered a chance to review the Logit­ech Squeeze­box Radio, I believe my exact response was ‘hell yeah!’, because this thing exem­pli­fies a geek gad­get. But wait, it looks like an appli­ance… …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full […]

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Predicting tech announcements is easy

January 29, 2010
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In the days before Steve Jobs and the Apple crew paraded the iPad around the stage in San Fran­cisco, I wrote a couple of items about the (then named) Apple iSlate / iTab­let device. In one, I lis­ted the 6 things I wanted to see in an Apple Tab­let, the other, more rel­ev­ant to this […]

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How the Apple Tablet can really succeed

January 25, 2010
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Given that Apple isn’t really pay­ing atten­tion to my mus­ings, I’m rather free to go on about things I *think* they can do to make their products, and make them bet­ter.
I’ve been fol­low­ing Apple’s tab­let designs since the New­ton Mes­sage pad. An inter­est­ing device, yet not very prac­tical.
I’m com­pletely smit­ten by my iPod Touch. It […]

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