Apple iPad released
by Mats Hellman on 27.Jan, 2010 under Apple
Just watched Twit.tv live from Apples event. I knew long before the event I would not be exited about the tablet and I’m still not convinced of the success for the iPad. I can’t see where this thing fits in the market. The price is ranging from USD 499 to USD 829. It’s nearly as expensive as a MacBook or a MacBook Pro 13″.
Apple seems to think it will revolutionize press and save newspapers and the book industry. I have my doubts here. As a long time computer user I still PRINT every document that’s longer than 10 pages I have to or want to read. The screen just isn’t as good for reading as paper. Books wont do well on a iPad for me as I do most my reading in bed where a book is far better than an tablet.
It will however be a great device to watch a movie on while on a train or for taking notes in a meeting. But and this is a big but, if I already have a laptop why would I put out the extra money for the tablet.
It still doesn’t do flash, and like it or not flash is something we have to support today. It’s also as restricted as the iPhone and that’s to bad. I would have liked to see more OSX and less iPhone OS in this device. I like to be able to at least change some settings on my devices.
On the positive side it is able to run all the iPhone’s applications so even before the release it has over 140 000 applications and that’s great. Still I don’t see the value of this device if you already have a laptop and a smartphone. Some think it would be great for users reading email and browsing the web but most of them will want to store their pictures locally and do some editing on the pictures. The 800USD version has 64Gb space so it might be usable for this but then cough up a little bit more and you can have a Apple laptop, go for PC:s and you’ll get one much cheaper. The 500USD version has 16Gb so that’s just to small for any real use and to pay 500USD for a book reader, well that’s to much.
Before I pass any final judgment I will go take a look at it when it hit’s the stores in Finland I’ll give it a fair chance even if my first impressions weren’t that great.
My software picks for OS X
by Mats Hellman on 04.Nov, 2009 under Apple, Mac OSX
As some of you might know I’m not a Windows only user. I do use an iMac at home for all my design and photo work. I also love the simplicity of OS X. It does what you expect it to and it does it well. This is probably why I feel the need to post some of the software’s I as a 1+ year Apple user have found useful.
I’m sure there are plenty more out there and if you whish to ad something to my list please do so in the comments.
I also want to point out that not all of them are free. Some cost, but as most programs for OS X they cost under 100 USD so it’s really not a big deal. The list is in no particular order.
Correct way to set up OpenVPN client on Mac OSX
by Mats Hellman on 01.Sep, 2008 under Mac OSX, Windows
I recently bought a MacBook Pro and I’ve been using it a lot at work. It does have some annoyances I might never get used to but overall it’s a really great laptop computer.
Anyway we use OpenVPN at work and Tunnelblick is THE client for OpenVPN connections in Mac OSX. I had some resolving problems and found out that some programs don’t even use /etc/resolv.conf like they do in most *NIX operating systems I’ve used. So googling around I found this great article about it and thought I’d post it here in case I need it again. Also it might come handy for someone else.
So checkout the article at http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2007/10/correct-way-to-set-up-openvpn-client-on-mac-os-x/
