“GarageBand for iPad. This is no toy. You can use this for real work. I cannot tell you how many hours teenagers are going to spend making music.”
LOL
Late Night Pair Programming
I find it totally hilarious how dumb people who claim to be IT professionals can be. Anybody with 1/2 an active neuron can see that social networking is a fad with a short lifespan and business wise only useful for some minor low cost marketing. But some how you find self called “professionals” claiming that it will change the way people work. I guess that is the reason why social networking sites are at the top of the block list on MOST corporate systems and even at small businesses. Sorry to burst your delusional bubble but social networking is a time wasting FAD that (unless you are in marketing) has no place at the office.
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Clay Shirky: Social networking will change business like PC, laptop, email | ZDNet
From the comments. Awesome!
You target Apple products primarily. Tell me why you’ve chosen to do that? That’s a good question. I started this gig four years ago — and so back then the Apple products were way easier to break into than, say, Windows. Really? Yeah, they were very far behind in security. That goes against the common perception. Yeah, I know. People thought they were secure when they weren’t. And when I told people that, no one would believe me. So the reason I started is it was easy. But since then, with (OS X) Lion coming out, it’s caught up. Now it’s not any easier anymore. I either have to find something else that’s easier to work on — or whatever.
david karapetyan says: That’s not too surprising. Everybody and their mom is a social media expert these days and any time there is that kind of expertise among the populous you can be sure that skill is completely useless and based on folklore and mythology instead of actual science.
Funniest Quote from iPad event
My foot hurts just a bit. Yes those are screws.
Interesting Airline Rules
So iPads and ereaders still get no respect from the airlines. I was sitting in the plane reading on my nook. The door was still open and tons of people were talking on their cell phones.
The flight attendant made me put away my ereader. So my device in airplane mode isn’t allowed but I was allowed to pull out my cell phone and have a conversation. Out of the two which one would create the most interference?
Some day airlines and the fcc will have rules that make sense.
this takes patience.
Sump Pump Monitor
Hooked up my sump pump monitor last night. I’ll follow up with more detail later but this was a simple implementation using an IOBridge and a tilt sensor. Hooked the tilt sensor to the digital input of the IOBridge. I just attached the tilt sensor to the sump pump outgoing pipe and since it vibrates when the pump runs I get the digital input turning on and off with the vibration of the water through the pipe.
BN eReader for iPad
This is why Barnes and Noble rocks. Now I can read on my Nook (reduced eye strain, better in outdoor, great battery life) or on iPad. Includes LendMe ability which is awesome to share books with your friends.
iBook just isn’t nearly as good.
