OCZ has announced a Thunderbolt connected 1TB SSD. I think this is the first viable portable OS in your pocket.1 I'd love to have a dumb CPU box with a Thunderbolt connector waiting for an SSD with an OS installed. It's like portable Slax, but actually usable by ordinary people.
The iOS is a portable computing device but it is not a portable computer in my opinion. ↩
I purchased the PowerDock Dual from Amazon[1] to help cleanup the family charging stations. 2 iPhones, 2 iPads and 2 laptops all charging in one creates an overwhelming tangle of little white cables. Unfortunately the PowerDock Dual is poorly designed and just creates more problems than it solves
The concept is great. The PowerDock holds one iPad and one iPhone with small coin dish between them. It looked like a smart solution.
While the built-in speaker on my iMac is quite nice it’s not sufficient for listening to music or podcasts, especially if I want to listen from another room. Over the years I’ve heard nice things about the SoundSticks but never had a reason to “upgrade”. Well, I finally needed to reclaim my SoundWorks radio from my office and decided to give the SoundSticks III a go. I’m glad I did.
The iPhone is a beautiful yet fragile piece of technology. I love the feel of it. It has a satisfying heft and the glass allows it to slide easily from my fingers into my pocket. Unfortunately there’s a cost to the sleek design. The iPhone 4(S) appears to have a much greater affinity for the ground than for my hand. The obvious solution is to put it into a protective case.
I’m a huge fan of my ScanSnap scanner from Fujitsu. I’ve had mine for about 4 years and it’s still working great. Fujitsu just announced an update to the ScanSnap line that allows it to scan documents to their new cloud service. There is also support for SugarSync now too. Pretty nice for a 4 year old scanner.
By way of MacNews
I received the notification yesterday. Two things strike me. The product is named "World Ease" on the tracking page and Apple and UPS have some amazing coordination. 1M units are, in theory, traveling by a similar route all over the country and due to arrive on the exact same day.
The future is smudged. Multi-touch is rapidly becoming the dominant form of UI interaction and an unfortunate side effect is the ever present finger smudge. A low-tech solution is to carry around a microfiber cloth. However, sometimes they can be hard to keep track of or get buried at the bottom of a messenger bag. That’s where the Carson Stuff-It microfiber cloth comes in handy. It can be had for about $4 on Amazon and is much better than carrying around a stray cloth.
My current 32GB iPhone 4:
This is after moving photos and video off of the phone. Earlier in the week Instacast could not download anymore podcasts since I had run out of available space. Many of those 160 apps are single use tools, like IMDb, Hipmunk and AroundMe. I don't use them everyday, but then again, when I need them, I'm glad I have them on my phone.
This is on a 2011 iMac 2.93 GHz Intel i7 with 8GB of memory. Encoding one disk. While the MacBook Air is very nice, I think I'll still keep a desktop machine around for times like this.
There's plenty of coverage for the latest Apple iPhone announcement so my round-up is not needed. However, there seems to be very little excitement about the new camera. Most of the press seems to be disappointed. I look at it differently. If Nikon announced a new point and shoot camera with f2.4 and 8 megapixels that could remotely post to any photo service and generate greeting cards, the media would probably go nuts.
