Category Archives: Digitalia

iPad mania continues

My brief and wholly shallow review after having an iPad for the better part of a month. Spoiler alert: I like it. A lot.
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What if Apple ruled the world?

Apple and Adobe have been arguing lately over open standards and the future of the Web. Steve Jobs and Newsvine founder Mike Davidson each have some interesting things to say about the conflict.
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Save early and save often

Lesson learned: If a pro­gram offers you the oppor­tu­nity to autosave your work for you, if only you’d take the briefest of breaks to first save your work and give it a file name, do it. Don’t, as I did, work for four hours on a video project, think­ing that Final Cut Pro is sav­ing your [...]
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The end of the American Internet

The U.S. government’s agree­ment with ICANN expired on Sept. 29, mean­ing that America has more or less given up con­trol of the net­work its uni­ver­si­ties and mil­i­tary created. I think this is worth not­ing, at least in pass­ing. It’s not every day that most of us think about the mas­sive net­work that our pre­cious World [...]
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Life Recorders: The wristwatches of the future

Life Recorder devices are com­ing, says TechCrunch, whether we like it or not. These devices, such as the ones that Microsoft is devel­op­ing, will have tiny cam­eras and audio recorders that record what is going on around you and auto­mat­i­cally upload it all into the cloud. The Microsoft site says the cam­era could have sen­sors that [...]
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