Because who wants to drop $800 on a “work in progress? – Ben Brooks My thoughts, exactly. All these new tablets coming out seem to be rushed to market and considerably buggy. And, as Gruber asks, the most important question is, “why would anyone buy this instead of an iPad?” ** I wrote the above [...]
Wow. Five years, already. Delivery Status is a great little app that started as a simple Dashboard widget. Now it’s a full iOS app with sync, and it’s awesome. If you’re a geek, like me, and order almost everything online, you want to know when your latest goodies are going to arrive. Enter Delivery Status. [...]
Like a full-featured VNC client + lightweight Finder + cloud-based file management. I think a future iPad with more powerful specs will be able to handle this kind of desktop -> iOS portability. via Federico Viticci’s iPad Life — The Brooks Review. Great info about Federico’s iPad usage. I just bought Omnifocus for the iPad. [...]
Perhaps I am the only one, but what the hell good is a rear facing camera on a device that weighs 1.5lbs and is the size of a sheet of paper? – Ben Brooks He’s not the only one. I’ll be shocked if I ever use a rear-facing camera on an iPad, if it’s ever a [...]
Following up on my previous link to Marco’s article, here’s one from Andy Ihnatko. “Tapping a button, scrolling a list, or zooming a screen in and out should make the user feel as though they’re tapping that user interface element directly. It shouldn’t feel as though they’re tapping a domino that knocks over other dominoes [...]