iPad location magic [updated]

Chris @ April 26, 2010
Filed under: Society — Tags: , ,

The last couple of weeks I have been mystified. My iPad doesn’t have GPS but it always knows where I am down to a couple of meters. I know that Apple has been using WiFi based geo-location already in the iPhone but I just couldn’t explain how my private hotspot and my friend’s down the street or even the one at my office could have ended up in Apple’s database.

The only explanation I could come up with was that Apple had used my iPhone’s GPS to gather geo coordinates for all WiFi hotspots I came close to. That sounded too scary and conspiratory-theory like to really contemplate.

And then I read this: >> more…

Got my magical and revolutionary device…

Chris @ April 13, 2010
Filed under: Product Design — Tags: , ,

I admit it. I had to get it and I did.

Now I have this shiny (more on that later), magical and revolutionary device sitting on my desk.

And here is the answer to the most asked question of the last week “how do you like it?”

I like it a lot, but I am still searching for a proper place for it in my life.I have my laptops (yes, two: one MacBook Air for iPhone coding and one Lenovo X60 for real work – I couldn’t function without Office 2007), one of them typically is within easy reach. On the road I have my iPhone which does pretty much all I want to do on the road. >> more…