Travels with Rhody

I’ve never written a song in my life until this weekend — and by the standards of my composer and musician friends, I still haven’t. But after getting the $4.99 Garageband app for my iPad 2 yesterday, I wanted to see how hard it would be to record a little ditty using the built-in recording [...]

Couldn’t resist taking the new iPad 2 out for a spin this afternoon to see how it does with HD video and editing. I wasn’t sure what the subject would be, but as soon as I got outdoors with Rhody it was evident from all the blooming plants that spring has come to Potrero Hill. [...]

On Friday, after my fourth fruitless trip to the Apple Store in two weeks, I tweeted the following: “Strike 4 at SF Apple Store in my quest for iPad 2. Line formed before 6 am, staff say. Genius marketing or colossal inventory mismanagement?” One clever follower, @tomboates, wrote back: “do you plan on going back [...]

People often ask me whether I have favorite apps to recommend for the iPad. I’ve written three roundups on this subject: 26 Apps to Drive Your iPad Wild, 10 Fantastic Photo Apps for the iPad, and iStocking Stuffers: The Best Apps for That iPad Under the Tree. But I thought it would be fun and [...]

I took my mountain bike out on a ride around San Francisco yesterday, and somewhat unintentionally, I think I wound up tracing much of the route of the San Francisco Marathon. I realized this when I got home and saw from the readings on Everytrail—the GPS trip tracking software I’d been running on my iPhone—that [...]

Well, the wait is over. I’ve got my iPad, and now the fun begins — the fun of figuring out how this thing is going to fit into my life. I know I’ll find a hundred uses for it that I haven’t even thought of yet, but for now I’m going to enjoy the [...]

I couldn’t be more gratified about the response that the Mass Mobile Month campaign has been generating in the local technology community. With 15 events on the docket between late February and early April, and with something like 25 supporting organizations signed up to help promote them, it’s looking like March 2010 will be the [...]

One of our big projects for the last week at Xconomy has been launching MassMobileMonth.com, a website collecting information about the unusually large selection of mobile technology events going on in and around Boston in March 2010. With help from more than a dozen organizations and companies around town, we’ve put together a detailed guide [...]

I’m reading, with amusement, a post today by Sam Gustin, a senior writer at Daily Finance, called “Apple Tablet: 10 Things We (Already) Hate About You.” It’s clever but misguided, and a few hours premature—let’s at least wait to see what Apple has been working on before we conclude that it’s worthless.
Gustin’s points and my [...]

I submitted my “World Wide Wade” column today, Tablet Fever: How Apple Could Go Where No Computer Maker Has Gone Before, to Slashdot, the news aggregator site for nerds. (I count myself as one of those, by the way.) When Slashdot accepts and links to your articles, it can bring tens of thousands of page [...]