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If I needed a new keyboard,

August 7, 2007 by Michael Boyle

If I needed a new keyboard,

I would run to the Apple Store to buy one of the new Apple keyboards that were unveiled today. Judging by the photos, both wired and wireless models are essentially MacBook keyboards in a sleek aluminum wrapper.

Update: In Macworld, Rob Griffiths notes that he’s confused about the binary choice available between a full keyboard = wired and small = bluetooth. I have to agree – in fact, I think Apple might have gotten it exactly backwards (assuming, that is, that someone forced them to make the choice, which of course is nonsense). What’s the number one scenario in which someone would want to buy a keyboard by itself? I bet it’s someone who has a laptop that they use from a specific location regularly. That person already HAS the compact version – it’s built into their Macbook. What he or she WANTS is a full keyboard – but doesn’t want to fiddle with wires sticking out the side just to use it.

Tags: Apple

Tim Bray loves

August 3, 2007 by Michael Boyle

Tim Bray loves

his Macbook: Unprofessional in Black. I love mine too, and contrary to the guy in Bray’s comments who doesn’t like the keyboard, I think the Macbook keyboard is probably the best laptop keyboard I’ve ever used (and I’ve used many, on both sides of the aisle (i.e., including other Apples, Dell, IBM/Lenovo, etc.).

Tags: Apple

Ooof. Calling Rogers is painful,

July 20, 2007 by Michael Boyle

Ooof. Calling Rogers is painful,

especially when it’s to buy a data plan from them. Nadia got a new phone yesterday – a Treo like mine – and for a device like that, a data plan is pretty important. So I called them up – knowing already what the deal on the table was – and signed up for a 3MB plan… for $25. I feel like Rogers is intentionally laughing at me or something. They invented plans in the late 90s for WAP and have kept charging people through the nose ever since.

Tags: Mobile, Palm, Price, Rogers, Wireless, Wireless Data

Why has it taken me

July 18, 2007 by Michael Boyle

Why has it taken me

so long to discover the joys of IMAP? I converted the other day because I was curious and have continued to be frustrated by POP in a multi-client multi-location email environment… and other than the fact that it doesn’t work with Yahoo Mail (my webmail client of choice) or GMail (what I would prefer to use, though it doesn’t work for me very well), it’s a revelation.

Tags: Email

The title of this story in my feeds

June 20, 2007 by Michael Boyle

The title of this story in my feeds

was Microsoft Agrees to Alter Vista Desktop Search. I wonder if the headline was just a coincidence, or if using a slightly modified “AltaVista” was a sly joke? (For newer Net folk, back in the day, AltaVista was THE search engine.)

Tags: Funny, Microsoft

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