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    Thursday
    04Mar2010

    Digital downtime

    DateThursday, March 4, 2010 at 10:00AM

    This is one of those posts where I don't practice what I preach. If I am watching TV I will pretty much have one eye on Twitter on my iPhone or be checking emails or catching up on RSS feeds.

    However, since our son arrived on the scene last June, I have thought more about setting an example for him...

    It may be hopelessly unrealistic and old fashioned, but I would like to think that when he is a little older we will be able to go out for dinner and he will sit and talk to us rather than being glued to his PSP (or whatever has replaced them by that stage).

    To be fair, when I spend time with him in the evenings and weekends (or the occasional day when I am working from home) I do put down  the iPhone and give him my undivided attention... not least because otherwise he is more interested in the shiny screen than in me!

    I think this is one of the (many) parenting challenges of the 21st century... how to set an example to our kids about how important it is to put down the gadgets from time to time and focus on the people who are sitting around the table with you.

    After all,  if we don't do it then how can we expect them to?

    How do other parents deal with this? Is the answer to enforce some kind of "digital downtime", or should we just embrace the inevitable... a Neuromancer reality where the implants in our brain keep us constantly connected to the matrix?

     

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    Wednesday
    27Jan2010

    The iPad - worth the wait?

    DateWednesday, January 27, 2010 at 11:53AM

    I posted a couple of weeks ago about the long awaited launch of Apple's new tablet and how it could be the missing link to the paperless law office.

    Now we have seen it in the flesh (or at least on Apple's website) - how does the reality compare to my expectations?

    The boring truth is that the rumours seem to have been pretty close to the mark this time around and Apple unveiled a tablet device with a 10-inch multitouch screen.

    There is an ebook (sorry, iBook!) reader and store built into the device and iWork will be available as well, which should allow decent functionality for using Word and Excel documents.

    The physical keyboard options are a real winner - for me you need to be able to type properly on a device like this.

    There are a couple of real disappointments for me at least:-

    • no multitasking so far as I can see (?!) forgivable on a phone, but on a device this size?
    • no flash support judging by the sites Steve Jobs browsed in the keynote.

    The US price is much lower than I expected (from $499 to $829 depending on the version). At the current exchange rate this would be about £310 in the UK, but I presume we will see the usual special Apple exchange rate of about $1 to £1.

    I guess at least the lack of carrier tie-in will make it easy to import a Wifi version from the US.

    The features I was really looking for (document reading and annotation) will probably have to come via an App if there is the demand for them.

    At the moment I'm not quite sure how tempted I am. You still need an iPhone and a computer and I'm not quite sure what I could do with the iPad when on the move that I can't do with the iPhone.

    I think I will be hanging back to see what the feedback is like from the early adoptors - and see what Apps come out for it.

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