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Recognizing Faces and Challenging Tablets on TechStuff
by Jonathan Strickland | October 22, 2010
There are certain themes that pop up repeatedly in our podcasts. Data security is a big one. Another repeat offender is the importance of critical thinking. A third topic is how can time travel work the way they lay it out in the film Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure? Those guys could cause the future to turn out the way they wanted to just by saying “We’ll go back and fix it later.” Seriously, this sort of thing keeps me up at night. But it doesn’t have anything to do with this week’s topics. Privacy, however, played a big role.
So you have an iPad, and you have a car, and you would like to mount your iPad in your car’s dashboard so it looks totally seamless. Here is one man’s successful effort, and it looks beautiful when he gets done: [Note - at one point in the video, the creator exclaims "dam", which may [...]
After all the hype around the iPad in January, along with the hype around its imminent release, it was obvious that other manufacturers would take notice. Also, the iPad leaves a lot of room for improvement: The surprising backlash to Apple’s iPad tablet computer What was not immediately obvious, but makes sense in hindsight, is [...]
The surprising backlash to Apple’s iPad tablet computer
by Marshall Brain | January 28, 2010
There has been a surprising amount of backlash to Apple’s iPad tablet computer. The main things that people are complaining about include: 1) Crippled operating system. People were hoping for a real operating system that would be able to run (and multi-task) real applications on a real processor. 1a) Weak processor compared to a netbook. [...]
Wednesday can’t get here fast enough. Either Steve Jobs will finally unveil the long-rumored Apple tablet computer device or legions of Apple fans (and tech journalists) will collectively lose their minds. Whispers and claims and even videos about the mythical device have hit a new high. If Jobs doesn’t debut a tablet device at Apple’s big press event on Wednesday, there may be a riot.
But with all the speculation, rumors and information about the tablet flying around the Internet these days I’m still left with a question: Who is going to buy a tablet computer?
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