Stapling
A (short) conversation with my daughter:
me: Emma, what are you doing?
E: Stapling.
M: You’re using a lot of staples
E: I’m making things very stapley
Ah, I love talking with my kids!
Archive for April, 2011
Playbook Review
Last week I bought RIM’s new Playbook tablet to see how it runs and if it is something that I could find useful. For those interested, the answers are “excellent” and “no.”
I opted for the 16gb version, my thinking being that I’m usually not prone to wanting large amounts of data being carried around. As well, the need for holding many small files is waning with the growth of cloud computing and services such as Dropbox. The price for this device is $499 and I think it came to about $550 after HST.
I must admit that my expectations for this device were not great. A day before I was joking with friends that “you know you have a failed launch when you aren’t asking if they bought one, but instead you ask them if theirs works.” There are reports of people having problems with the Blackberry Bridge, which would be a bad thing for PB owners. You see, RIM hasn’t yet developed an email client for the PB. Instead, they are relying on PB owners to connect to their blackberry phones in order to receive emails, contacts and calendars. I’m not sure if the Bridge only works with BB devices.
When I got home I unboxed the PB and plugged it in to give it some charge. I had to go out for a while, so I’m not sure if the device came with a charge or not. A couple of hours later I returned and fired up the PB. The first thing it did was find a new OS update. 250mb and 5 minutes later I had the latest software, fast and easy – sweet. I had a quick look with the device Read the rest of this entry »
