Dave Caolo looks at the history of the tablet computer.
Category: General Tech
The Dark Knight Rises Featurette⇢
Oh mama.
Daring Fireball-style Linked List Plugin for WordPress⇢
This plugin, coupled with WordPress’ “Press This” bookmarklet makes posting from iOS easier than ever.
Five Decades of Batmobile⇢
I can’t wait for the new movie, in which the Batmobile has gained the ability to fly, apparently.
Matthew Panzarino BBQs an External Hard Drive⇢
Geeze, what I do for this site suddenly seems super, super boring.
Why Thunderbolt Cables Are Expensive⇢
Mmmm, silicon germanium.
Brett Kelly Interviewed by MacStories⇢
Two of my favorite nerds sat down for a chat. Instapaper-worthy, for sure.
Visiting the Skywalker Home⇢
This sort of thing doesn’t exist anymore, in our CGI world.
United Pixelworkers Local Shirts⇢
Vote for Memphis if you love this site.
Tracour: A Rumors Database⇢
The Internet might be a a better place thanks to this tool.
The Push of the SSD
It’s certainly safe at this point to say that flash has won the war in the mobile space—I don’t think we’ll ever see another tablet or phone based on anything other than solid state storage. The war for the proverbial desktop (which includes most laptops) is far from over, with hard disk drives still outnumbering SSDs in most traditional computers. Still, SSDs are in enough places doing enough things that modern operating systems have changed to accommodate them.
RIM’s Q1 Results: Abysmal
How much longer can the company post results like this?