"Make no mistake, paper is a technology just as much as an LCD screen is, and as a technology it has several important advantages over e-readers that I am loathe to see disappear."
Ironically, the best iPad apps focused on reading things—like Instapaper—work to make the iPad more like a simple, static, easily-read book or article, not less. If the iPad is going to make new inroads in education, let along transform it, I think it’ll be through specialized apps like these, and not through an augmented-textbook model that reanimates the corpse of Microsoft Encarta.
I picked up a DS212j in December for storing all the home media files and have been happy with it so far. Beyond just simple file storage it has a built-in iTunes server (along with other media sharing options).
"Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted"
"Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity; gilt in Gorilla Glass and cadmium. An in them we find entertainment in lieu of happiness, and exchanges in lieu of actual connections."
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Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter
“Sent from my iPhone”
"It pried entry into the most difficult of markets by not even wanting to enter."
"Questions to consider
• How can you apply the “intentional selection of less” to your work?
• What elements or activities in your field serve more to distract than to engage?
• How can you remove the distractions?
• In what ways, in your field, is more actually less (and vice versa)?
• How can you increase clarity and impact by resisting the call to add more?"
"Most Excel users never enter a formula. They use Excel when they need a table. The gridlines are the most important feature of Excel, not recalc."
