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14 Apr, 2010

1 week of iPad

Posted by: jaf In: Apple|Hardware|eBooks|iPad

It has been a little over a week since My iPad was delivered, and in that time I have had the opportunity to try it out at home, at work, and on the road. In fact, I’m currently typing this entry on it from the hotel restaurant at the CNI Spring task force meeting. I [...]

28 Jan, 2010

Apples and Oranges

Posted by: jaf In: Apple|eBooks|iPad

So I was completely wrong about the iPad sporting a nifty ZUI. Reading some of the “expert” commentary regarding the newly announced Apple tablet, it appears that there is a great deal of disappointment in the device due in large part to a seeming lack of innovative technology. Steve Jobs didn’t convince a lot of [...]

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So, just for fun, I’m going to step a little bit out on a limb and predict that the new apple device that will be announced tomorrow will have a true 3D zoombable user interface – where you can zoom in on (and out of) content. The ZUI (Zoomable User Interface) approach has been around [...]


Tweets

  • Apple's Ping would be much better if you could post and like on music in your library, not just music in the itunes store.
    2010/09/03 09:11
  • trying out Siri
    2010/08/25 06:13
  • NBP: Librarians are *the* search experts...
    http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=121
    2010/08/19 13:49
  • NBP: What do we want from Discovery? Maybe it's to save the time of the user....
    http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=119
    2010/08/18 12:05
  • Replaced car battery. Onto super scooby doo secret project fun.
    2010/08/16 18:33

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