Now what?

A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.

The iPad After 2 Weeks

So, it's been couple of weeks, and I've gotten used to using the iPad, and I'm addict to it. I purposely set out to only uses my iPad for home tasks when possible for the first few days. After the first couple of days of that, I don't reach for my ...

A Landmark Day in Technology?

I love how some people are mocking the Apple tablet buildup, point out that Microsoft has had tablets out for years. Yes, and there were mp3 players before the iPod, but which one is considering the ultimate version of the technology that caused it to take root? And there were smartphones before ...

Fever | Personas

With life being so busy lately, I've fallen behind in keeping up with tech news, religion blogs, etc. like I used to. There are some feeds that I used to subscribe to that have such a prolific rate of posts (like Macworld, MacNN), that I just can't follow them anymore. That's ...

Palm’s Pre – Decent iPhone competitor?

Of course, this is a demo video, and real-world speed may not be anywhere near this, but I must admit that the interface in the above demo video of the Palm Pre looks intriguing. With the iPhone, Apple was able to leverage its dedicated Mac developer base to jump start ...

Twitter Killed the Blog Star

Stick around to the end for this one, it gets pretty funny. I can see how people would think this about Twitter.  The beauty of it is that, deep down inside, we're all a little bit weird. We obsess over our interests, and realize that in normal converstion that we'd never ...

What’s Next for the iPhone?

Image via CrunchBase Last summer, after the release of the 2.0 iPhone software and MobileMe, I had loads of complaints. Both were full of bugs when launched. See: Dear Steve Jobs | Mobile Me - Not So Pushy They finally got the bugs ironed out of the iPhone with the 2.1 software several ...

Trying out some new tools

My menubar on my Mac is getting a little more crowded these days with the addition of two new tools that I'm trying out. Dropbox The first one isn't exactly a new one, but it's new for me. Being a true geek, I run off of multiple machines. I have 2 machines ...

Happy 25th to the Mac

It was 25 years ago today that Apple released the Macintosh computer. Hard to believe it's been that long. I wasn't using one back then, but I was aware of it. My Industrial Arts teacher in Junior High was also the computer teacher, and we would use Apple II's for ...

iPhone EDGE users getting hosed?

AT&T screwing its EDGE iPhone users? | 9 to 5 Mac.   When I was in the Shoals area visiting over the holidays, I did notice that EDGE was way slower there than I remember it being when I was having to use it when I had the original iPhone. I could ...

Great Stuff from the App Store

It's amazing how many apps are released in 1 week for the iPhone. Since the App Store was launched, I've followed the RSS feed from PinchMedia that lists all the apps that get added, and there are easily 500 per week. Most are useless, or lousy, but out of 500 ...

May 27th 2010
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Apple Passes Microsoft

The New York Times posted a graph showing the stock price of Apple and Microsoft over the last 20 years. It was announced a couple of days ago that Apple's market capitalization put it ahead of Microsoft, making it America's largest tech company. I've been an Apple fan since our Elementary school ...
May 5th 2010
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The single best month for music….ever?

There's a lot of good music out this month, there's more good stuff coming out this month than usually comes out in a year. They say that in economic downturns, creativity goes up. Maybe that's what's going on, regardless... I'm listening to all of this stuff: I didn't count MGMT's new ...
April 18th 2010
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The iPad After 2 Weeks

So, it's been couple of weeks, and I've gotten used to using the iPad, and I'm addict to it. I purposely set out to only uses my iPad for home tasks when possible for the first few days. After the first couple of days of that, I don't reach for my ...
April 6th 2010
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The iPad After a Few Days

My impressions of the iPad after a couple of days of using it. First off, this thing is a little heavier than it should be. I wouldn't mind having just one battery, with the ability to add on our snap in the additional battery. I think the limitation of only having ...
February 23rd 2010
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Ron Paul 2012?

I think that the neoconservative pundits underestimated the Ron Paul Revolution's staying power. Over the weekend, while I was working at a retreat, I walked in front of a tv screen and was pleasantly surprised to see that Dr. Paul won the CPAC straw poll. Immediately, the neocons in the Hannity and ...