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It's in the Bag! The Apple Tablet Computing Device

By Mark Sigal
November 13, 2009

In the past 25 years, the 'personal' computing revolution has evolved from tethered (desktop) to luggable (portable) to joined-at-the-hip (mobile). The author argues that the next wave of computing will extend this level of personal attachment to the bag-carrying consumer (think: purses, backpacks and briefcases) when Apple releases it’s much rumored Tablet Computing Device. Read more

Rebooting the Book (One Apple iPad Tablet at a Time)

By Mark Sigal
September 23, 2009

The book business is under assault. Book sales have been stagnating for some time, Amazon is the industry's boogeyman, and more terrifying, book publishers have no idea how to market books in a world (largely) devoid of bookstores. Moreover, in the age of the always on, it's fair to ask, do people even still read anymore? Just as it re-envisioned the Media Player, the Mobile Phone and Mobile Computing, Apple is well positioned to reboot the Book with its forthcoming iPad Tablet. Read on...

O'Reilly iPhone App Tips and Tricks

By Adam Witwer
September 4, 2009

As Andrew has discussed in some detail recently on this blog, O'Reilly has started publishing many books as iPhone/iPod Touch apps. Over the past couple of months, we've received a...

Touch Traveler: London, Paris and only an iPod Touch

By Mark Sigal
August 21, 2009

Recently, I spent two weeks vacationing in London and Paris with only an iPod Touch for communications and connectivity. Mind you, I am not suggesting that this was a wise thing to do, but it's what I did, and this post captures the good, bad and ugly of the experience.

APPLE is EVIL, You’re All Fanboys and other half-truths

By Mark Sigal
August 19, 2009

There is a meme afoot. Apple is evil. Its arrogant ways and dependence on the cult of personality are to be its demise. Developers are said to be unhappy. And, Apple Secrecy Doesn’t Scale. Google-ification is the way, the RIGHT way. The Apple Way can’t possibly persist ad infinitum. You Apple fanboys; you just don’t get it. Ol’ Steve (Jobs)...

The Sizzling Sound of Music

By Dale Dougherty
March 2, 2009

Are iPods changing our perception of music? Are the sounds of MP3s the music we like to hear most? Jonathan Berger, professor of music at Stanford, was on a panel with me at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Mountain View, CA on Saturday. Berger's presentation had a slide titled: "Live, Memorex or MP3." He...

Ebook to iPod to Hard Copy Purchase

By Peter Brantley
November 18, 2008

Hugh McGuire is loving Stanza, the free ereader app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. From the Book Over Blog: 40,000 ebook dowloads-a-day. I've got 35 of them sitting on my...

The Strange Co-existence of iPod Functionality with Other Audio Apps

By Dave Aiello
August 21, 2008

I've been experimenting with AOL Radio, Last.fm, and voice recording apps to get a better sense of the iPhone's ability to be a general purpose audio device. In the course of regular use over the past three weeks, I'm really...

Open Question: Have You Seen a Kindle in Public?

By Mac Slocum
August 18, 2008

We pose a few non-scientific questions about device ubiquity.

Books Fail to Crack Top 100 in iTunes App Store

By Mac Slocum
August 15, 2008

Analysis from O'Reilly Radar shows that the Books category in the App Store is lagging behind others.

Technology's "Killer" Distraction

By Mac Slocum
July 28, 2008

Is anyone else tired of all these so-called Google killers?

Photographing Nature in Studio

By Harold Davis
February 21, 2008

Sometimes the best way to photograph something natural is indoors, using a studio setup. This kind of studio doesn't have to be anything fancy, although you do have to pay attention to light and exposure. Often, the setup for indoor still life photography of natural objects such as flowers, shells, and insects is pretty ad-hoc and jury rigged. Case in...

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