Brian Conway on January 26th, 2010

Once again there are rumors about the Apple Tablet and the pricing structure that comes with it.

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Brian Conway on January 4th, 2010

According to the WSJ, the much rumored Mac tablet will be announced at the end of the month, and will be shipping at the end of March.

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If I were asked “What would you use the Apple tablet, or any other, for?” I would say for everything that I use my laptop for, and more. I think with the right tablet I really could set my laptop aside permanently.
Of course, this would only work if one or more of the tablet manufactures produce a well thought out product that has enough power and features to allow mw to keep doing all the things that I need to do daily.
One thing is certain, the coming decade will yield a continued increase in the products that come to market as part of this industry innovative cycle that we are in. Technology companies will have to continue to try new to find new innovative products and different adaptations of existing technologies in an attempt to find the “next have to have” item.

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Brian Conway on November 6th, 2009

I think that what the folks over at Entourage are putting forward as the next generation of netbook style devices is representative of a step in the right direction towards getting the buy in of the innovators and early adapters (such as myself). As someone who comes from a strong IT background. I am always looking for a portable device that can easily handle the host of PDF references and white papers that I am either reading or keeping for reference, my generally extensive list of books that I am reading, and be able to use it in place of a laptop or netbook for web research, document creation, note taking, and whatever else I can get it to do to help me get the job done day in and day out.

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o here it is, November, and after many, many repeated tweets, comments, and emails I have gotten an answer of “Soon”. Will it be soon enough, with more and more diverse products racing to crowd the playing field of the tablet / media / e-reader markets? I guess we will know soon…

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I saw this interesting video over at Techcrunch. Although the video is a bit long, it it worth taking the time to watch. The concept of multi finger touch replacing the more traditional mouse is very innovative.

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Brian Conway on October 5th, 2009

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I recently read WordPress Theme Design by Tessa Blakeley Silver with the hope that it would shed some light on the mysteries of how to create a theme that better represented my site. I am, admittedly, a novice at both WordPress and PHP programming, so I dove [...]

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ssgconway on October 4th, 2009

Yes, Virginia, you can turn a box of old computer parts into a wireless laptop! This was an experiment born of curiosity, spare parts and a determination not to let anything Mac go to waste.

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The race for a new generation tablet PC seems to be heating up. Everyone has been waiting to see if Apple’s rumored offering, The recently announced Archos Android based tablet, or the Tech Crunch’s Crunchpad will be first to market, but today on Gizmodo I saw a sneak peek at a Microsoft tablet that is rumored to be in the late testing phase.

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Brian Conway on September 23rd, 2009

The HTC Hero will be available to Sprint users on October 11th. You can sign up for notifications from Sprint here. Not sure what the hubbub is all about? You can read more about the HTC Hero here and you can take a look at the walkthrough video below to have a peek at it

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