'Speculation' Category
The iPhone’s Future for Law Students and Lawyers
Last week Apple showed how serious it is about making the iPhone a business device. The company rolled out a long-awaited software developer kit, announced the iPhone App Store, showed off slick new iPhone games from third-party developers, talked up first-class support for Microsoft Exchange server, pitched security features, and demoed AOL Instant Messenger for [...]
Mac Owners Are Snobs, and Other Phluff
Edward Tufte, the guru of information graphics, uses the term Phluff to describe the effect PowerPoint slides can have on serious analysis. In The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, he describes Phluff as “a preoccupation with format not content, an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.”
Phluff is everywhere, and for the most [...]The Perfect Law School Laptop
With the recent introduction of the Modbook, MacBook Air and rumors of a coming refresh to the MacBook lineup bouncing across the ‘Net, I’ve started wondering what the ultimate law school laptop might be like.
It would of course run Mac OS X. It would have to cost less than $2k retail in the United States [...]Physical Security for MacBook Air
A friend of mine noted that the MacBook Air doesn’t incorporate a locking slot. He figured this was an oversight by Apple. I disagree. Here’s why:
Shortly Apple will announce AirForce, their proprietary new physical security paradigm. The MB Air knows its owner via a variety of biometric factors (body temperature, pheromones, skin pH, etc.). When [...]Macworld 2008 Highlights
I usually have a privacy law seminar on Tuesdays, but by random chance it was cancelled today. So a friend and I drove up to San Francisco to take part in the madness. We arrived at about 10:15, and waited 45 minutes for the expo hall doors to open. Then we waited in this cattle [...]