Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Apple

Apple Watch (This Space).

It’s no secret that I’ve been an Apple fanboy for a long, long time. I’ve always owned, used, and loved Macs, and my few dark experiments with Windows, Linux and Android have never (at least, not yet) ended well. I was definitely among the throngs feverishly awaiting Apple’s foray into the wearables market, and when […]

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On the possibilities of an “all-mobile environment”.

A few weeks ago, the Annenberg Innovation Lab held our Spring 2014 Think & Do event. Much like the “New Screens: Re-Envisioning Home Entertainment” Think & Do we held back in the fall, this one focused on one of the four core areas of the lab’s Edison Project. This time around, the focus was on […]

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The nebulous case for a netbook/notebook.

For the past week-and-some-change my old brother-in-arms Nick Bastin has been hanging out at our place, taking an extended vacation here in Boston. In between marathon sessions of Rock Band, Lego Rock Band and Beatles Rock Band (see a trend emerging here?) Nick and I have been debating the issue of netbooks. For the Black […]

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Moving into the Cloud.

(The following is a draft of an essay I’m kicking around and will probably post over at the C3 blog. I’d appreciate your thoughts and comments – it’s less of a blue-sky thinking piece and more of a clarification and “this is what I’m doing in this space” piece, so it’s a little different from […]

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Take good care of my baby…

For months – actually, since almost when I first got it – I’ve had issues with Remiel, my MacBook Pro. It’s emitted a high-pitched whine whenever the brightness has been turned up past the halfway point, but that I could at least deal with. Earlier this summer, though, its mouse key started to stick, which […]

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I love this thing!

Today I started out kind of excited but also kind of ambivalent. Really, how cool could the iPhone possibly be? Now, after only one day’s worth of playing with it, I’m convinced, Laura’s convinced… This thing is amazing! It’s about half the thickness of my Treo and easily ten times as powerful, not to mention […]

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Testing the iPhone.

Man, posting to my blog using my iPhone is going to take some getting used to! The keyboard is definitely easier to use when it’s horizontal but it’s still tricky as all get out!

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Keynotes getting worse?

Is it just me, or are the Apple Keynotes getting more and more disappointing? Today’s WWDC keynote featured the following: EA returning as a Mac game developer Stacks, folders in the Dock Translucent menu bar and a 3-D dock “Back to my Mac” .mac feature, which is essentially iDisk Cover Flow in the Finder, which […]

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First iPhone photos in the wild?

It would appear that the first pictures taken with an iPhone have just surfaced, courtesy of some EXIF data and some rabid Flickr-searchers. There are two photos, one of which isn’t that great (largely due to some horrible backlighting) and one of which clobbers my little Treo’s snapshots six ways from Sunday. I’m a little […]

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New Apple upgrades?

Word on the street this morning is that Apple just bumped their top-of-the-line Mac Pro to an 8-core system, meaning each one sports two 3GHz quad-core Intel Xeon processors. It’s been a while since I’ve been in the market to upgrade my tower – it’s a dual 2-GHz PowerMac G5 – but I’m waiting to […]

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