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By bfwebster on Dec 19, 2011 in Main, Quality assurance, Surviving Complexity | 2 Comments
A few months ago, I wrote a post contrasting my experience with setting up and using an Apple TV (v2) device vs. setting up and using a Roku 2 streaming device. The Apple TV device came out very favorably, and while I did get the Roku 2 to finally update its software and start functioning, [...]
By bfwebster on Nov 23, 2011 in Complex systems, Main, Management, Product development, Quality assurance | 4 Comments
This is actually a problem I’ve been dealing with — or, more accurately, ignoring and working around — for a few months, at least, so I thought I’d put a post up here to see if anyone has come up with an actual fix. Back in July 2010, I bought an Acer Aspire easyStore Home [...]
By bfwebster on Oct 27, 2011 in Main, Marketing, Product development, Surviving Complexity | 1 Comment
Last spring, I bought an Apple TV device to go along with a new large-screen TV in our living room. Setup was simple, and I kept discovering new things that I could do with it. It gets used a lot more than either the Blu Ray player or the DirecTV satellite box also attached to [...]
By bfwebster on Oct 5, 2011 in Art of 'Ware, Books, Business, Competition, Main, Marketing, Product development, Professionalism | 0 Comments
The second personal computer I ever owned[1] was an Apple II, with no floppy drive. I bought it, along with a small color TV, from my close friend Robert Trammel while we were both living in Houston sometime around 1980.We had already spent hours together programming on it, then carefully (though not always successfully) saving [...]
By bfwebster on Apr 19, 2011 in Main | 5 Comments
A few months back, I bought an iPad portfolio case with a built-in bluetooth keyboard from ThinkGeek. (No manufacturer name appears on the case, but I’ve seen what appears to be an identical case offered on Amazon by Kensington.) That case is set up much like a traditional iPad portfolio case — slide the iPad [...]