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iPhone Madness

  • Posted by Nacho
  • June 28, 2007

The iPhone is hitting the stores tomorrow and we have great techno-madness going on. About the only way it could get worse is if it was somehow linked to Paris Hilton breaking out of Jail to get an iPhone, and Britney Spears (sans undies) giving Paris a kiss in front of the San Francisco Apple store ...>

The Phenomenology of Cut and Paste

  • Posted by Nacho
  • February 26, 2007

It is the strangest thing but I guess I should not be surprised. I've felt it for a long time now, but for some reason it just gained amazing presence in my mind: when I perform a cut operation on a text or image, with the intent of pasting it in a few moments onto another digital surface, I end up. ...>

Wikis & Higher Education

  • Posted by Nacho
  • January 21, 2007

Any of you out there tried StikiPad yet? I'm not fond of the business model (another expense, the free version is too limited in bandwidth and storage), but it just looks pretty neat and simplifies playing with a Wiki. It would be great if it had a nice calendar subsystem built in, especially one ...>

Apple iPhone Revisited

  • Posted by Nacho
  • January 11, 2007

The excitement over the iPhone keeps growing. Various financial analysts have reported quite positively on the product, with one of those, UBS Investment Research, getting right to what the iPhone truly represents for Apple, a "convergence platform." That is exactly what the iPhone represents. It ...>

iPhone & Concordant Discordance

  • Posted by Nacho
  • January 10, 2007

Apple today announced two very neat products: an iPhone (Click the image for a larger picture) that is based on a small data pad with what appears to be a neat user interface, and their AppleTV. Now, I'm a certified Apple Fan, but I always find the response of Apple fans much more exciting than the ...>

Zuneless

  • Posted by Nacho
  • December 9, 2006

Check out MacWorld for a good series on the much vaunted Microsoft "iPod-killer," the Zunes music player. This last entry raises very good points about the Zunes, especially its DRM and agreements with music vendors that effectively treat consumers like criminals. Andy Inathko has another review tha ...>