Self-hatred

Posts Tagged ‘apple’

Sold the iPad; bought an Android phone

Day and night. Day and fucking night. One of the biggest killers for me about living out in Cliffony has been the lack of reliable Internet access. I had an O2 HotShot dongle, but O2′s 3G coverage seems to end somewhere around Galway. Since I moved out to County Sligo in August I’ve been stuck [...]

Goobye ‘txtr, hello iBook

‘txtr isn’t all that bad of an ebook service, but it just didn’t work out for me. It has a lovely barebones interface, a great web-device connectivity and plain gorgeous ePub rendering compared to Stanza’s. Unfortunately: The ‘txtr website fails when I try to upload any PDF or ePub document bigger than about 20MB. It [...]

Oh, ouch

Updated 00:40 October 8: I have my Stanza library backed up into a folder on my desktop. I’ll do a mass upload to ‘txtr on Monday. I updated my iPad to iOS 5. Stanza, an app that I completely rely upon , crashed and crashed hard after the update. Stanza ate my entire book collection [...]

iPad +1

I blogged about this on The Other Site, but it is oh-so-worth repeating here: I have has iPad. /gloat I guess a user review is in order? Teh Suq The virtual keyboards (landscape and portrait) on the iPad suck if you are in any way a good typist. Sure, I can Google search, Tweet, instant [...]

I have has iPad. Discuss. Mariah found it on adverts.ie, and from there I travelled to Dublin to collect it. We loves it, our precious, we do.

juliaroy: What 10 years of Apple did to its main product… http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/24/what-10-years-of-apple-did-to-its-main-product/ What a scary “The singularity is coming” moment!

thedailywhat: Geeky Gag of the Day: “Inception explained for Mac users.” The pinwheel wouldn’t stop spinning so I Force Quit myself awake. [jonahray.] Inception. Refined.