The Magic Trackpad arrived today, much earlier than promised, so I’m posting this review earlier than expected, too. Aside from the fast delivery (thank you, USPS!), there isn’t much to say that has not already been said elsewhere, but when has that stopped me? One thing I found particularly appealing about this new product was [...]

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I’m typing this post on my iPad using my new Apple Wireless Keyboard. It is a much better experience than trying to use the on-screen iPad virtual keyboard for more than a few characters at a time. Don’t get me wrong — I’m not complaining about the great portability provided by the inclusion of the [...]

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If you are a returning visitor to this site, you may have noticed that I am doing a bit of rearranging in the sidebar, inserting a few ads, removing some obsolete widgets, etc. In the process of evaluating things to delete, I clicked on the Alltop link, and proceeded to get lost in reading some [...]

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Using a 3D virtual world is not often the first impulse of building designers and architects, but maybe it should be. Here’s one snapshot of a house that was designed in about four hours, right down to the hanging plants on the loggia. Clicking the image will download a presentation (PDF, about 11.5 MB) with [...]

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It’s here! I’m writing this post on the device, in fact. When the FedEx driver finally arrived, about 3:45p.m., she said “Everyone has been home today to receive these.” Well, duh! Naturally, it is going to take some time before I can explore all the features of all the apps as well as the gadget [...]

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I don’t think it’s just me, but has anybody else noticed almost agressively helpful sales support from the Apple Online Store recently? I had an issue with the credit card I’d used to preorder my iPad (which arrives Friday, yippee!), so I called and got it straighted out. Then I got an email asking for [...]

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If you pay attention to the widgets in the right column of this blog, and if you’ve visited this site in the past few days, you might have noticed I’ve replaced a cute, star-spangled “countdown” widget with one that is less glitzy, but more accurate. Another positive aspect of the new “iPad Delivery Countdown” timer [...]

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Apple has finally given us a delivery date for the 3G iPad. So far, I’ve collected forty dedicated iPad apps, 22 universal apps, and 184 iPhone/iTouch apps which may work on the iPad, too. That’s not counting those in my wishlist, most of them paid apps with bigger pricetags than the nominal $0.99 or $1.99 [...]

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Thanks to Jim MacMillan for finding this and tweeting it.

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Tomorrow people who preordered the WiFi-only version of iPad will be lining up at their local Apple stores, or waiting impatiently for FedEx to deliver their new Unicorn. As I’ve said before, I opted to wait for the WiFi + 3G version, so it will be a few more weeks before that happy day for [...]

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