Moving In
My new apartment is in Apex, NC and I am currently in the process of buying furniture.
For a few weeks I will be living like Steve Jobs in 1982 (below, right).
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Tracy Volkswagen (Hyannis) - Avoid Them
Unfortunately, Cape Cod only has one VW dealer: Tracy Volkswagen in Hyannis. I’m banned from their service department.
And the story begins…
After a thorough car search this past summer, I ended up getting an ‘07 VW Rabbit (aka Golf V outside North America). It’s a great little car that a tall guy like me can fit [...]
MacWorld Keynote in 60 Seconds
Out of all the video podcasts that I watch, Mahalo Daily is quickly becoming one of my favorites. The podcast is hosted by Veronica Belmont, formerly of CNET’s Buzz Out Loud. When people ask me about what happened at MacWorld this week, I’ve been pointing them to this short and sweet summary:
Apple TV Take 2 Gets it Right
It’s taken a year and a half, but Apple has finally made the Apple TV (40GB $230; 160GB $320) worthwhile. Most of my original complaints are no longer valid, though I was correct in the device’s initial failure to grasp only but a niche market. With version 2 of the device, Apple has changed very [...]
Usability Hits Mainstream
Usability has come a long way since 1983 (the year I was born and the year this photo of Bill Gates was taken). The first Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference was held in 1982 and some of the major contributions to the field were published a decade later (e.g. Nielsen’s Usability Engineering and Dumas’s A Practical [...]
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