Tag: iPad

  • Tablets

    Tablets

    The more I use it, the more conflicted I am about the iPad. It’s bright and renders images beautifully. I love the way designers are now taking this big screen into account when they produce apps like Pulse news reader and FryPaper. It’s really fun for showing photos to people. But—and there are so very…

  • FryPaper: an interview with the man behind Stephen Fry’s iPad app

    Following my post about using the iPad recently, I’ve spent some time using more content-focused apps. As I mentioned before, the iPad has turned out to be a great device for consuming, reading, and just experiencing media. This has obvious benefits for video, and many of the examples I’ve seen have made use of multimedia…

  • iPad-so far

    Two weeks ago, I counted myself one among the hoards of silly sods who queued early in the morning for the chance to see, touch and indeed buy the much-hyped iPad. My justification for this lameness is that the next day, I was scheduled to fly out for a week-long conference and wanted to try…

  • How badly do you want an iPad?

    The iPad is something I’m more curious about than lustful for. I want to see how it works, how it feels to use and what difference it’ll make to the way I do things. I’ll be interested to see how it does at conferences, for example. Whether the format of a tablet is a useful…