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The Times They are a Changin’

April 2, 2010 By Dan Brodie Leave a Comment
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For the second time in approximately three years, Apple is redefining an industry. Arguably, the launch of the iPad is the single most important launch in Apple's history. This, folks, is a big deal. This really is beyond technology and enters into the realm of redefining the cultural norm. Touch tablets will define our main method of interacting with the web, mail, social networking, written, audio and visual media and even gaming for the next decade. Many people suggest that the iPad will fail for many of the same reasons that the iPhone would never capture significant market share. Here are a few of their arguments: Adobe Flash: Flash is mainly used for games, displaying web video, and is a main tool in displaying advertisements on web pages. HTML 5 is set to replace Flash. People have stated that this will not occur in the mainstream for at least 5 years. I beg to differ. Major sites like YouTube, Vimeo, CBS, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times either have or are … [Read more...]

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Paul Thurrott and his Supersite for Windows

February 4, 2010 By Dan Brodie Leave a Comment
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It's not often I get irked by some technical pundit who professes to be the law when discussing new technology. However, the latest blog post of self-professed Apple hater Paul Thurrott is disturbing in and of itself. I don't mind people challenging Google, Apple, RIM or any other technology company with well thought out and supportive articles but his last two have been beauties. Now it's no secret that he has carved out a living writing about Microsoft products and that is not a bad thing at all. At the end, though, Mr. Thurrott is evidently very threatened by the re-emergence of Apple and with each new product release, this fear has only increased. Specifically, with the recent announcement of the iPad, Mr. Thurrott has tried to persuade readers of two fabricated points: Apple is responsible for an increase in eBook pricing on the Kindle; and That Apple isn't an innovative company. Let's look at his first argument. Mr. Thurrott writes: What's interesting about Amazon's approach … [Read more...]

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Apple to Reveal More than a Tablet?

January 19, 2010 By Dan Brodie Leave a Comment
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People all over are excited about the possibilities that Apple's new tablet is expected to open up. People have already heralded the device as the iKiller of all iKillers. The gadget of all gadgets. The one gadget to rule them all. Pretty lofty expectations for a device that Apple hasn't even publicly acknowledged. For years people have told me that Apple is more of a marketing company than anything else. Really? Well let's take a look at the marketing budgets of several leading software and consumer electronics companies. Both RIM and Microsoft spend almost 2-3x more marketing dollars as a percentage of revenue than Apple does. The difference? Apple is just great at the marketing game. Most of the others aren't. However, to be successful, a company must have products to back up their marketing efforts. … [Read more...]

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A Couple of New Features in Snow Leopard for Preview and Screen Shots

September 2, 2009 By Dan Brodie Leave a Comment
New Snow Leopard Screen Shot and Preview features

Playing around with the new Snow Leopard OS for the Mac has been fun. While few features are advertised from Apple, I have found two items that make some simple tasks much easier. First, Apple now names the screen shot image files as screen shots and included the date and time. For example, the new file name now becomes "Screen shot 2009-09-02 at 8.21.39 AM". While this may not sound like much, the old structure simply named the images "Picture 1" , "Picture 2", and so on. The problem was that if you moved an image to another directory and then created a new screen shot, you would end up with two images having the same file name. If you then moved that image to the same folder you would either have to overwrite the original image or change the file name of one of the images. For people taking and storing multiple image shots, this was a bit of a pain to deal with. Second, Apple has change the annotation functionality in preview. When clicking the annotation icon in the header bar, … [Read more...]

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