iPad and the Future of Computing
The iPad is the console of computers
— mmustapic
The iPad announcement last week created a cacophony of commentary ranging from, “Meh, its just a big iPod touch”, to, “Wow, we’re witnessing the future of computing”. On announcement day I was firmly in the former camp. There appeared to be nothing new aside from the larger screen and a custom Apple SoC inside.
Since then I’ve read a lot of smart commentary on the iPad, which has swayed my opinion quite a bit.
Becoming a Melbourne Cyclist
Getting Started
With the move to Essendon and new job in January I decided I’d try my hand (or feet) at riding to work. There’s a coupe of obvious benefits. Firstly its good exercise and secondly each time I ride to and from work I save about $6 in train fares. After settling into my new job for a week and loaning my brother’s now mostly unused mountain bike1 I set off one Sunday night on a trial run. I did some research online and via the Melways with my Dad to determine the route. The trial to and from work straight after each other went well so I did it for real the next day.
iPhone Case
Since I got my iPhone I’ve been trying to find a suitable case for it. As I mentioned on Stephen’s blog back in July I was looking for a pouch style case. I wanted something a thin as possible but not something that was permanently on the phone. I don’t see the point of buying some thing with excellent design then wrapping it in some ugly case. I’ve been dropping into phone shops now and then to see what cases they’ve got but hadn’t found anything compelling until this week. I saw that TeleChoice seemed to have what I was looking for, it also happened to be a Mossimo case. There is one problem that I didn’t notice in the shop though.
iPhone Gripe: Trucated Song Titles
Something that seems to be a regression on the iPhone relative to all previous iPods is that song titles get truncated. Even in the original iPod the Now Playing screen would scroll the current song title so that you could read it all when it didn’t fit on screen. Later model iPods also scrolled text that was wider than the screen when browsing menus. It seems the iPhone 3G does neither of these.