General Interest

On Saturday I debated rushing to Best Buy to secure a $99 HP Touchpad. In the end I didn’t. It would have been more a purchase rooted in curiosity rather than one I needed. Last week I wrote the word “implosion” writing about HP and their strategy to abandon WebOS, the PC market and setting [...]

Where do you want the touchscreen on your laptop? This comment below from Steve Jobs makes plenty of sense to me. Having had my iPad in a dock with a wireless keyboard – it’s a pain! And I gave up using it that way almost instantly. The dock stays in a cupboard. Both lie flat [...]

I didn’t actually get in to the Pebble Beach Concours although I’m sure it was a fantastic event. I did repeat going down to see the Concours Parade which finishes in the main street of Carmel Ca. Once a year it results in cars (gorgeous cars) parked everywhere and car nuts walking the streets for [...]

Skype launches an iPhone multitasking upgrade. As their list of errors and issues shows it’s premature, and from my perspective lacks understanding of how users will want to use it. I’m also stunned that all those iPhone reviewers and general PR blogs just put out the details without seemingly even testing the product. This release [...]