Category Archives: Can't Wait!

iPad as a photographers tool

By thecodepounder | Published February 5, 2010

Scott Bourne provides a professional photographer’s take on the iPad:
I get a real chuckle out of people who say you can’t use the iPad to show off your portfolio because it doesn’t run Flash. P L E A S E! Apple will ship the iPad with a wonderful photo viewer and you can bet your [...]

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Gotta have one, I just can’t yet explain precisely why…

By thecodepounder | Published January 27, 2010

…which I’m going to have to be able to do before “running it by my wife”. At least I’ve got some time.
Call me an Apple fanboy if you must (and that’s fine, I make my living as a “Senior Windows Developer” so it’s not going to phase me one bit), but I just have to [...]

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Andy Ihnatko on what an Apple tablet should be – or not

By thecodepounder | Published January 11, 2010

I probably can’t justify $600 for a netbook. Which is why the RAT [Rumored Apple Tablet] will be as unlike a netbook as you can possibly imagine. A netbook is a device that you haul out to do a little writing, or check some email, or goof around on some blogs.
The perception of the RAT [...]

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John Gruber on ‘The Tablet’

By thecodepounder | Published December 31, 2009

Like all Apple products, The Tablet will do less than we expect but the things it does do, it will do insanely well. It will offer a fraction of the functionality of a MacBook — but that fraction will be way more fun. The same Asperger-y critics who dismissed the iPhone will focus on all [...]

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iPhone 3G S launch day

By thecodepounder | Published June 19, 2009

Well, for me it’s all up to FedEx now.  Might be early, might be late, but at least I won’t have to head across town to wait in line at the Apple Store…

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Apple requests UPS to hold back iPhone 3Gs deliveries until Friday

By thecodepounder | Published June 17, 2009

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has requested that UPS hold back deliveries of iPhone 3Gs shipments until Friday, June 19th.
Crap!  While I was assuming that I wouldn’t be able to activate my new iPhone until Friday even if it was delivered on Thursday, I was hoping to be able to wake up early Friday to [...]

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Fall television outlook is good

By thecodepounder | Published October 23, 2008

First let me state for the record that I do not watch television, except for the occasional indulgence of Masterpiece Theatre or CSPAN. No offense intended, but I find pretty much everything else to be simply too low-brow. Let me further state, for the record, that I’m lying through my teeth.
Now, I don’t watch a [...]

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The 30 minute activist

By thecodepounder | Published September 18, 2008

Atheist Revolution is starting a new series called The 30 Minute Activist:
I think I am going to use my recent post, “Be an Atheist Activist in 30 Minutes a Week,” to inspire a new series of posts on atheist activism. I am calling the series “The 30 Minute Activist” to emphasize the point that one [...]

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Electric car enthusiasts echo computer enthusiasts of a generation ago

By thecodepounder | Published August 19, 2008

FoxNews.com has the story of an electric car club, the Fox Valley Electric Auto Association, that meets monthly in Naperville, Illinois. Interesting to me is how much the electric car enthusiasts sound like the computer enthusiasts of the 1970s:
“We came to the conclusion a long time ago the car companies weren’t going to make [...]

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Kevin Smith wins MPAA appeal, ‘Porno’ to be rated ‘R’

By thecodepounder | Published August 5, 2008

Kevin Smith has won an appeal with the MPAA over the rating of the forthcoming movie “Zach and Miri Make a Porno”. The film, which was initially rated NC-17 by the Gestapo Motion Picture Association of America, reversed its rating decision after the appeals board viewed the movie with Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier.
“They [...]

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MythBusters: NASA Moon Landing coming August 27th

By thecodepounder | Published August 1, 2008

The MythBusters, you know Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage and gang, take on the moon landing hoax myth on August 27th:
MythBusters
NASA Moon Landing
TV-PG
On this episode of MythBusters, the team tackles the tallest tale of all in Moon Landing Hoax Hour. Did NASA pull off the greatest cover-up in human history?
and they’ve released this trailer for [...]

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iPhone 2.0 software to go “gold master” today?

By thecodepounder | Published June 27, 2008

Gizmodo says “highly probable,” citing “sources inside the Cupertino’s iPhone software development effort.”

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