Feb/101
Who Will Buy an iPad?
Not so long ago Apple has released their brand new product called the iPad and the web has been buzzing ever since. Some people like it, others don’t. Andreas Louca talks about Taking on the iPad in his post which points out some very good arguments.
So I come and ask you. Who will buy an iPad? Well the answer to that very question is My Mother and people like my mother. Why you may ask. Let me explain.
My mother want’s a computer to do the following.
- Check her emails.
- Browse the web and read the news.
- Watch videos / Listen to music.
- And of course play Tetris
So does the iPad do the following? Of course it does. And it does so much more than that. Some might argue that a laptop does that also, but a laptop is more expensive than the iPad (Well an Apple laptop).
So given the requirements that she wants I do recommend the iPad and I would go as far as say that she would use it even more than if she bought a regular laptop.
What do you think?
Feb/100
Mac OS X Tip: Airport
Pressing the Option key when clicking on the AirPort icon in the menubar will display some detailed information about your wireless connection, including the transmit rate.
Jan/090
Docs Batch Export
This is an update to the old post. I’ve changed this application so that you can select the output export format.
To use it just drop a bunch of files onto the application icon and select the desired export output.
All converted documents will be placed on your desktop in a folder named temp.
Please make sure that that folder exists first.
on open filist
set myChoices to {"pdf", "doc", "rtf", "txt"}
set selectedChoice to choose from list myChoices OK button name "Process" cancel button name "Exit"
if selectedChoice is false then
error number -128
else
repeat with lvar in filist
tell application "Finder"
set thename to name of lvar
end tell
set x to the offset of "." in thename
set nuname to text 1 thru text item x of thename
tell application "Pages"
activate
set filname to ((path to desktop folder as text) & "temp:") & nuname & selectedChoice
set x to make new document with properties {path:filname}
open lvar
save document 1 in file filname
close every window saving no
end tell
end repeat
quit application "Pages"
end if
end open
