The Big Think » Apple http://www.thebigthink.org Transitions are transitory Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:51:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Who Says Emotion and Logic Don’t Go Together? http://www.thebigthink.org/2011/10/12/who-says-emotion-and-logic-dont-go-together/ http://www.thebigthink.org/2011/10/12/who-says-emotion-and-logic-dont-go-together/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:44:46 +0000 jasony http://www.thebigthink.org/?p=7358 I’ve been living with the music program Logic on a daily basis for about 18 months now and not a day goes by when I don’t yell out “I LOVE THIS PROGRAM!” Huge, huge thanks to the brilliant engineers and designers for all the little things. Is it perfect? Nope, but it’s so, so much better than I was using before. Incredibly flexible, massively powerful (I almost never stress it out), and I’m still discovering little things that make me fist pump the air and shout “YES!”. As fond as I am of Studio Vision Pro I could never go back.

So glad I made the switch.

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]]> http://www.thebigthink.org/2011/10/05/1955-2011/feed/ 0 Apple Idea http://www.thebigthink.org/2011/08/15/apple-idea/ http://www.thebigthink.org/2011/08/15/apple-idea/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:09:22 +0000 jasony http://www.thebigthink.org/?p=7161 Dear Apple, here’s an idea: how about putting those nifty 3g chips that are in your iPhone and iPads, the ones that let users pay AT&T or Verizon a monthly fee for internet access, into your laptops? It’s hard on us laptop owners out here. Instead of lurking outside of Starbucks or Schlotzky’s restaurants for free wifi, many of us would be happy to pay $25 for a month of internet access (with the 5gb limit). You already let iPad users do this exact same thing. How about throwing laptop users some love?

It would be a great way to get some more ongoing revenue from your mobile users. Heck, a monthly $25 charge when traveling would be WAY cheaper than all the Starbucks that we’ve already bought. And probably better for us than all that caffeine.

Thanks.

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]]> http://www.thebigthink.org/2011/06/11/magical/feed/ 0 Merry Pranksters http://www.thebigthink.org/2011/06/05/merry-pranksters/ http://www.thebigthink.org/2011/06/05/merry-pranksters/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 05:03:39 +0000 jasony http://www.thebigthink.org/?p=6977 Cheeky! And fun.

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We’re probably going to spring for professional installation of the new hard drive. I’ve looked up the directions to replacing the HD in her model of iMac and, wow, yeah… not going there. Better to pay somebody else the money to do it professionally. I trust my mad screwdriver skillz, but one slip up and we’re buying a whole new machine. No thanks.

Have you backed up your data lately? I just got a second 2TB hard drive to go with my first one and everything is backed up six ways from Sunday, so I think I’m covered. Still… wouldn’t hurt to burn the Quicken data to CD again, would it?

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We’d have loved the camera, but basically saved $300+ just by opting for the 1st generation. It was a really great deal and let us take advantage of a box of goodies that was just sent by a very cool (but shall remain anonymous) friend. Thanks, friend!

Can’t wait to download the Logic controller app for this thing. That way I can justify its purchase as a business expense. Right? Right? :)

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