Posts by PaulMJohnson

Having just bought my mother a Kindle (just the regular one, not the fire), and had a good look at that, it's really shown me how weak the iPad is as a straight reading device.   I know the Kindle is designed just to be a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    Which, if you do the calculation, is the resolution that I said and which no company makes.   Edit: I was wrong. That was for a 22" display....

Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum    Yeah... 17 is always bad... except when it's worse!   I new a guy who lived in Pasa Tiempo and worked at Apple HQ in...

Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum    That's a very good idea!   Last weekend the grandkids went to Santa Cruz with their dad.  The oldest, Marlowe, had just got a new iPhone...

Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui  No, my cellar is quite well stocked thank you and the level in my glass tends to reflect that..    I don't live in the US, neither do the majority of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    How does that make any sense? Not just the fact that it'd be the iPhone 7 (known as "iPhone"), but the fact that Maps is available on all devices. What sense does...

Quote: Originally Posted by Booga    Stuff that "just works" isn't supposed to be an "event".  iCloud is awesome at keeping everything in sync between devices.  Hard to imagine life without it...

It would be pretty cool if they did something with traffic (opt in, obviously), whereby your iPhone could send them information about where it is and how fast it's going.   Given how many people have iPhones, they could pretty...

Quote: Originally Posted by Junkyard Dawg  Dude, get an SSD!  The delays you're describing are almost all due to the limits of HDD, and an SSD abolishes those limits.  Once you've used one, you will never go...

Quote: Originally Posted by ltcommander.data  I wonder where the disproportionate file-size increase comes from? Are they using different/less compression in addition to increased...