RIP Steve Jobs 1955-2011
RIP Steve Jobs 1955-2011
Archive for the ‘Apple’Category
Things Used to Be Better
19
06 2011
Android, iPhone, Locations, TechCrunch, Sanity
About a week and a half ago, I wrote a post defending Apple against the location FUD being spread. Due to some real, but minor issues (which have already been resolved) Apple was at the center of this. Then the focus seemed to shift towards Google. If Apple is “watching you” with the iPhone, Google must be as well with Android devices, right? Sure, if you’re a paranoid looney. Naturally, that group includes the US government. In an effort to attach their names to these highly publicized complaints and companies, certain legislators have called upon executives to testify before Congress. On Tuesday, those companies will deliver a Location 101 lesson to Congress. As I noted in the previous post, the press certainly isn’t helping with any of this FUD — and may actually be more than a bit to blame for it. After the Apple FUD started spreading, who else but The Wall Street Journal started digging into Google’s location approach as well. The shocking discovery? An email from a Google project manager to co-founder Larry Page stressing how important it is for Google to have their own location database for Android. … No. Shit.
Read the full article on practice (redux)
Tags: TechCrunch
09
05 2011
Can you say “Privacy Lawsuit?”
via youtube.com
This item speaks for itself. Class Action lawyers … enjoy!
23
04 2011
Dell 10-inch Tablet Not Coming Until Fall
Apr. 04, 2011
Since October last year Dell has been hinting about a tablet product. In February it announced the pending release of a 10-inch Windows 7-based model. Now it looks like those devices will not be available until the fall – potentially in time to make the back-to-school or holiday shopping seasons, but nearly 2 years after the iPad created, then ran away with, the tablet market.
HP and Asus, among others, have already released Windows 7-powered tablets, and Windows 8, rumored to be coming out in 2012. will apparently be more “tablet friendly” (whatever that means). Predictably, Dell is believed to be preparing a Windows 8 tablet for release around that time as well.
Author’s Note: So Microsoft is playing catch-up again. As if we needed another reminder that smart, nimble applications and devices are better than over-lawyered, bloated me-too products (“Office 14″ anyone?). You heard me, Redmond. Think about what a screw-job it took to drive so many into the waiting arms of Steve Jobs. It’s like watching GM implode all over again. First the euphoria. Then the malaise. Then the slow decline. Finally, the anticlimactic death.
P.S. Bill, no matter how many kids you pat condescendingly on the head you’re still not going to be remembered as a saint. Will you and your wife go home, already?
04
04 2011
iPad Tips for Lawyers
My iPad2 should be a arriving in a few weeks, assuming it doesn’t fall victim to production backlogs, Somali pirates, or earthquake/tsunami related delays. In the meantime I’ve been doing some solid Lawyer/iPad bonding and in the process I found this great information at The Mac Lawyer (hat tip). In addition to programs like TrialPad, which I wrote about here, take a look at these productivity-enhancing iPad applications:
- iAnnotate Comments, highlights, bookmarks. Import from Dropbox.
- Penultimate Notetaking app.
- uPad Take notes with zoom. Annotate and export PDF files.
- Dragon Dictation It’s, you know, Dragon. On the iPad.
- iTeleport Secure screen sharing to a PC or Mac.
- Shareboard Up to 4 users can collaborate. Projector-friendly.
- Air Sketch iPad whiteboard; annotate and mark-up PDFs etc.
- Browsing Pad Creates side-screen for notes; export to Evernote.
- Readdle Docs Import, view, and work with documents on the iPad.
