This Is How The iPad Air Got Thinner, Lighter & Powerful

http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/11/ipad-air-thinner-lighter-powerful/

Review: Microsoft Surface 2 a worthy iPad rival

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/10/21/review-microsoft-surface-2-worthy-ipad-rival/

Apple

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/apple-just-answered-lot-key-questions-future-162011513.html

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/apple-stick-icahn-change-world-150926677.html

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/free-isn-t-free-apple-investors-other-lessons-143330344.html

 

 

Cracking the Apple Trap

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/magazine/why-apple-wants-to-bust-your-iphone.html?_r=0

Apple’s iPhone 5C now costs $45

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apples-iphone-5c-now-costs-45-2013-10-04?mod=wsj_share_tweet

RoboKind R50

At the beginning of this decade I predicted that we would see intelligent robots by the end of the decade.

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/bWhyExDKe4Q

5 Things Tim Cook Should Say (but Probably Won't)

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/5-things-tim-cook-probably-won-t-170523614.html

Android

http://techland.time.com/2013/09/20/8-reasons-you-should-consider-switching-to-android/

Good News, Apple Fans: The New iPhones Are Pretty Cool

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/good-news-apple-fans-iphones-pretty-cool-154539872.html

I am intrigued

http://www.thetileapp.com/?utm_source=AdWords&utm_medium=CPC

Curiosity Peter Molyneux's latest game for Android Androidizen

Dumb idea:

http://youtu.be/zpmP8ZPgN5k

Take My Wi-Fi, Please – ReadWrite

http://readwrite.com/2013/07/12/take-my-wi-fi-please#awesm=~obIssQFhiYhC3F

- I have never password protected my wi-fi. The range is so poor that
at best only my nearest neighbors could connect, and I am not even
sure if that is possible. It would not bother me if they did connect.

This Could Threaten Apple’s iPhone | Talking Numbers

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/talking-numbers/could-threaten-apple-iphone-174705005.html

Lewis Black on iPhone - Android

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36fyPyElrnw

This applies to me

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/the-check-is-in-the-mail-from-apple/

Nvidia shows off stunning graphics with Kepler Mobile chip | GamesBeat

See the video...

http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/11/nvidia-shows-off-stunning-graphics-with-kepler-mobile-chip/

"I was an iPad skeptic"

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/i-was-an-ipad-skeptic/

The first cellphone call was made 40 years ago today

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57577704-94/the-first-cellphone-call-was-made-40-years-ago-today/

FW: Cool!

From: Robert

 

For the iPhone weenies.  Some days I wished I had an iPhone instead of an Android because some stuff comes to market quicker for the iPhone.  I’ll have to wait...

 

But this is pretty cool!

 

Automatic Link uses iPhone to make regular cars smarter

 

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/12/automatic-link-uses-iphone-to-make-regular-cars-smarter

Windows 7

Consider the vi text editor.  Like many editors used by computer programmers, it is overly complicated and hard to learn.  When I was first forced to use it in a computer class in college, I hated it.  Now I will use nothing else.   Once I overcame the difficulty of learning it, I realized that it had many powerful features that I liked.  However, a non-technical person would never even remotely need these features.

 

I feel a little bit the same way about being forced to use Windows 7.   It is not a bad operating system, but it feels more complicated than it needs to be.  Windows XP had a pleasant simplicity to it.  However, I am starting to get used to Windows 7.

 

It concerns me that there so many different ways that you can get to your files and run programs in the Windows OS.  For example, you could have a shortcut on your desktop, or you have something pinned to your task bar, or on the programs menu, or pinned to the start menu, or in a folder on the programs menu and there are other ways.  There is no consistency there, and therefore I think that Apple had the right idea with IOS.   It doesn’t have the same flexibility, but the simplicity of it means that almost anybody can use it without any training.