I find the tone of this post to be more than a little irritating, but this article pretty much explains what’s going on with the “secret tracking file”.
Category Archives: Gadgetry
Memo to Apple re: apparent location logging
[And no, I don't really expect anyone at Apple, except maybe my friend Mike Rawdon, to read this, but it's worth a shot]. Dear Apple: I am an advocate, nay, an absolute unfettered unapologetic lover of almost all your products. I just bought a new MacBook Pro; I stood on line on the first day …
“Keyboard? How Quaint!”…well, maybe not?
I have several post ideas queued up waiting for my brain to reorganize itself after several very stressful weeks, but today I came across an article thanks to Slashdot that I feel a need to comment upon. The article is entitled, “Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition“, by a fellow named Robert …
iPad: The Other Side of the Coin
Since my friend Richard was kind enough to refer people my way before writing his well-thought out refutation of my iPad/Star Trek article, it’s only fair that I refer you back to said refutation.
Followup: iPad: The Star Trek Use Case
[Original article] Several of you have pointed out to me that I’m not the only one who has noticed the resemblance between Apple’s impending device and Star Trek‘s ubiquitous portable data thingummies. Gizmodo points out there will be an app for that…
iPad: The Star Trek Use Case
Star Trek is, of course, a world full of ubiquitous computing, although it’s rarely portrayed in those terms exactly. We see communicators, tricorders, flat-panel displays everywhere…and, for portable information access and messaging, the PADD. Of course, these are really all just non-functional props. But the ideas behind them have long-since fired the imagination of real-world …
Google Buzz First Impressions
For those of you who have been living in a Google-proof shelter this week, Google introduced its latest toy, Buzz, this week. Superficially, Buzz operates a lot like Twitter, or like Facebook’s status page, in that you’re encouraged to share your fleeting thoughts with your crowd. However, in my opinion, it so far has several …
The iPhone, the Apple Tablet, and the future of Consumer Computing
I have a number of fellow geek friends who are deeply distressed by the current trend in computerized gadgetry, in particular, the iPhone and the much rumoured, but, as of this writing, still entirely vapourware Apple tablet device. Myself, I think it’s pretty much where the industry’s been heading since the day the first truly …