I can’t wait for the launch of ios 5 and the iCloud, and getting rid of having to update and back-up my devices by plugging them into a computer. A computer running the horrible iTunes app. Ever since my first…
Tag: ipad
Apple Killed My iPad
The ios 4.2.1 upload, runnlng on my work computer, totally froze my iPad. When I hooked it up to its primary PC at home, the only solution was a complete restore, erasing everything. So now I have to reinstall all…
eBookstores Not Ready for Primetime? No Nobel
Often when the Nobel Literature Prize is announced, I run down to the fairly large bookstore near work to see if they have anything by the new laureate in English. Sometimes they do, often the don’t. So I was looking…
Transcending the Kindle
Are eReaders the savior of newspapers? In the latest issue of “Wired” Steven Levy argues for the usefulness and more serious role of the Kindle compared to the iPad: “But longer, deeper plunges into literature—what the critic Victor Nell calls “ludic…
Getting into eReading
Reading books and magazines on an ebook reader seems to be an acquired skill. I bought the Kindle version of “WordPress for Dummies” to help restart my blog (would have bought the iBook version but Amazon will take my kronor…