Warner Crocker is a professional theatre director, producer and playwright and also a Tablet PC enthusiast. He is also a Microsoft MVP for Tablet PCs. Send email to Warner.
It’s the end of the year and its time for wrap-ups, predictions and more crystal ball gazing than you can shake a branch of holly at. As usual before I make any predictions for 2012, I go back and grade my predictions for the this year now ending. The one thing that is predictable as [...]
The saga of Fusion Garage looks like it may have come to an unfortunate end. According to a report on The Verge, founder Chandra Rathakrishnan has been uncommunicative for a period of time, customers can’t get any responses from a dead website, and the US PR firm representing Fusion Garage is pulling the plug on [...]
Passion about any subject is a good thing. Stating a passionate opinion is a good thing. Stating a strong passionate opinion is a good and often a bold thing. You are your opinions. If you write those opinions down on the Internet, in a publication, or for a stage people judge you based on those [...]
Watching the GBM Team members go crazy with their new Verizon Galaxy Nexus devices and react to it on Yammer is something I wish we could broadcast live here on the pages of GBM. I mean this next statement with lots of geek fondness. It’s like watching kids in the proverbial candy store. Although when [...]
Yesterday Google released an update to its iOS GMail App that brought new features like vacation responders, different signatures for mobile emails and scribbling. I’ll talk about the scribbling part in a second. When I posted about the App release yesterday I wasn’t seeing the little gear icon that allowed you to access some of [...]
Remember the complaints when the iPad was first released that it was only a consumption device? They were legion. Then the App developers got involved and low and behold we’ve seen quite a few folks who have enjoyed creating on an iPad or an iPad 2. They include musicians, artists, and writers. Of course the [...]
Yet. For those who think it is because I’m an Apple fan boy, hear me out. It has nothing to do with the fact that I’ve been an iPhone and iOS user for some time now. I’ve been reading quite a bit about the Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich. I have to admit, I’m [...]
So, did someone throw the wrong switch or am I just a doofus? (Let’s confine those comments to the subject of this post and not in a general sense. I already know I’m a general doofus.) Google rolled out some changes to its iOS App for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The changes include [...]
Microsoft is certainly pushing ahead with everything Windows 8 and betting the Tablet farm on its strategy there. But it is not ignoring iOS and all of those iPhone and iPad users. Just yesterday Microsoft kicked out a new, but not fully featured version of OneNote for both the iPhone and iPad (check out Kevin’s [...]
It’s getting to be that in order to follow the mobile tech news you need a degree in patent law. Lawsuits are as big a part of what’s going on as are specs these days. Seattle based Cequint has filed a suit against Apple alleging patent infringement. Damages are unspecified but Cequint is asking the [...]
Ah, technology, lobbying, and lawmaking. It’s a wicked brew. There’s currently a bill brewing in the US House of Representatives (H.R. 3035) that would allow companies to make robo calls to your cell phone. The proponents of the bill say this is necessary because so many folks now use mobile phones as their only phone, [...]
Mindjet is a popular name in mindmapping software. Many Tablet PC users considered MindManager a key App not just because of its excellent mind mapping ability but also because you could do your work in Digital Ink. Mindjet has previously released MindJet for iOS that give you much of the mind mapping functionality, without the [...]
You just wondered how long this might take. It did take awhile, but Apple has finally caught on. One of the ways the incessant (and increasingly detrimental) iOS device rumor mill keeps itself cranked up is Apple includes device numbers in the code of its Beta products. Eagle-eyed coders wait for this and go looking [...]
Chris put up an excellent post entitled “What Will You Choose as Your Next Daily Driver?” Daily Drivers mean different things to different people and of course they should. Everyone has different use cases and budgets and, well, there’s that who feudal/serf relationship most have with a carrier. This past weekend at the theatre I [...]
After a more than tortured journey in its life so far, the much loved, but tough to gain traction webOS now has a destination again. HP, after replacing the CEO who killed the short-lived TouchPad with Meg Whitman, has decided that it will turn webOS loose on the Open Source world. The tortured journey included [...]
Everybody is talking about the “New, New Twitter.” Of course they are talking about it on Twitter. On the surface, more power to them. They keep iterating. Deep down, Twitter proves once again that they have some fundamental problems. The essence of the big change is encapsulated in how Twitter now gives you four targeted [...]
Ah, the legal battles continue. Apple took a loss in a Mannheim Regional Court in Germany today when a judge ruled in favor of Motorola Mobility. For the moment this means Apple can’t sell the iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad 3G and iPad2 3G, and presumably the iPhone 4S, although it was released after the suit was [...]
This week has seen several updates and some new software to what I call the “roll your own” magazine type software. Google released its multi-platform Google Currents, which is its answer to Flipboard (check out Chris’s post about Google Current here.) Flipboard the reigning favorite (in my view and many others) released an iOS update [...]
Well, someone knows how to make lemonade out of a lemon. The Jawbone Up was released with great fanfare and great ballyhoo not long ago. In case you missed it, the Up is a bracelet that syncs with an iPhone that allows you to basically monitor your life from what you eat, to how you [...]
I’ve been saying for quite some time now that in the great Tablet race there isn’t much going to separate one Tablet from another when it comes to hardware. (It’s all about the software/hardware optimization in my view.) Sure there will be some small sprints as to who has the faster processor, and who has [...]
Looks like the cuckoo birds are flying around Siri lately. According to this Cult of Mac report, Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychologist thinks that Siri might be potentially as harmful to kids as recreational drugs and/or violent video games. In fact he calls it “toxic psychologically.” Here’s the relevant quote: But I believe that personifying [...]
One of the highlights of each Christmas season is when Linda Epstein publishes her Annual List for Santa on TabletPC2.com. You might not think there’s much to choose from for Tablet PC lovers, but Linda and Santa will prove you wrong. The list is full of great gadgets and gear and yes it does include [...]
This morning it sure felt like the holidays took a giant step closer to being here after a weather system moved through and left us with chillier, December-like temperatures. So, there’s no question that the holidays are coming up as fast as the sweater box got taken out from under the bed. For some folks [...]
Shakespeare has Orsino begin the play Twelfth Night with the line “If music be the food of love, play on.” And certainly listening to music is a big part of many lives. Our music tastes define us both to ourselves and to others. And, like the choice of our mobile devices, we are probably entering [...]
Yesterday word broke that the Google was putting some Apps in the Android Market Place on sale for a dime. Yep, $.10. Not surprisingly Amazon followed suit today putting some Apps on sale for the same paltry dime. You can check out which ones at this link. Unfortunately, (unless I’m missing something) it’s nigh on [...]
Most of us should know the sound. We hear it on our TVs or radios prior to a weather or alert or test of the emergency system. I’d insert an audio file of the sound but we all know it is obnoxious. But that’s a good thing. Because if there is an alert or emergency [...]
One of my favorite iPad Apps, the Ink Blot Award winning Flipboard has just received an update to version 1.7 that now makes it a universal App, now making it available to the iPhone and the iPod Touch. This is a very cool thing. Flipboard has been a winner and a must-have App for the [...]
Lots of folks are picking up on a study that says users are having some “fat finger” difficulty with Touch on the Kindle Fire. All of the Apple lovers are saying this affirms Steve Jobs’ comments that Tablets in a 7 inch form factor just won’t work. Time may indeed prove Jobs correct, but quite [...]
I could have written the thoughts Harry McCracken lays out about using his iPad 2 for his work machine with a few minor tweaks. I didn’t. He did, so I’m linking to it. His points line up with my thinking very easily save for the choice of some of the software and accessories he uses. [...]
This will be a bit of a rant here. But it’s a theme I’ve been on for quite some time. For the life of me I don’t know how financial and market analysts stay in business, or for that matter attract any. But then if you believe in old P.T. Barnum, I guess that answers [...]
Yesterday a small firestorm started building around Carrier IQ, a smartphone monitoring company with software of the same name that monitors smartphone activity, which according to the company is only used for diagnostic purposes. The software appears on most Android phones. The problem with Carrier IQ is that it was demonstrated by developer Trever Eckhart [...]
Today’s theme looks like it is about security and companies that like to spy on our mobile device usage. Earlier we posted about this situation with Apple and now we are pointing to another situation with Android and other devices. Trevor Eckhart took a look at what Carrier IQ, software that is installed on most [...]
Security and privacy issues are always the rage and usually cause some rage when they surface. This latest one mentioned by Krebs On Security is certainly a head scratcher, even though the stories about it have been around for awhile. What makes it news is just that: the stories and info have been around for [...]
Meg Whitman in an interview with Le Figaro has said that HP will most likely be making a decision on what it will do with webOS within the next two weeks. As sad as this HP saga has been with webOS, and other aspects of the company, you have to admire Whitman for at least [...]
Epic Games is set to roll out Infinity Blade 2.0 today and from what I’ve seen in the pre-hype videos it looks impressive. I enjoy Infinity Blade quite a bit, especially on frustrating days when I need to wack on something just to relieve stress. That said, Infinity Blade is more than just stress relief. [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
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