Tag Archives: iPad

Sometimes Apple drives me up the wall

Posted on Tuesday, 28 February, 2012 by jmacg

I love my iPad but sometimes I despair of it – and Apple. I have a particular spreadsheet file I use daily that I store  in my marvellous Dropbox folder. That sends my file to the computing cloud, so I … Continue reading →

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A convert to the Kindle eReader

Posted on Monday, 23 January, 2012 by jmacg

I’m a convert to the Kindle eReader. But I’m not a convert from ink and paper. No, I converted from the iPad, much touted by Apple as giving the ultimate ereading experience. For about a year, nearly all my personal … Continue reading →

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eBooks and the iPad – implications for publishers

Posted on Monday, 12 April, 2010 by jmacg

There’s much talk overseas about the new Apple iPad taking over from established e-readers like the Amazon Kindle, and finally persuading the masses to read books on an electronic tablet instead of paper. This may or may not be correct, … Continue reading →

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This decade’s epochal event?

Posted on Wednesday, 7 April, 2010 by jmacg

The epochal event of the decade happened last weekend. That’s right – the iPad tablet computer emerged from Steve Jobs’s reality distortion field. Correction: the iPad is still in that field, so is Jobs and so are gadget freaks the … Continue reading →

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