Saturday, August 28, 2010

Apple Ipad Review


iPad, docked. by purplelime




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  1. Some people elect not to join open feint as uploading scores is worthless to them, this is not a very accurate measurement of piracy.



    Posted by: realityloop |
    August 24, 2010 7:44 PM




















  2. $1.99 for an iPad app is cheap. Most are $3+ and that is after having bought the app on an iPhone or iPod. I have never pirated software as I have too much repect for the devs who produce such great work, but we were sold an iPad that would run the apps we'd already purchased. While not quite an outright lie, it certainly was not the truth. Again, it sounds like this dev is charging a decent price for his product. Other developers who have tripled or quadrupled prices for iPad have created a feeling of distrust. When people feel ripped off, they are far more likely to 'return the favor' by downloading another app for free when given the chance. This situation will only worsen if people are asked to buy their apps a third time for Apple TV. Especially since the iPad is 100% capable of sending it's signal out to a TV but is blocked from doing so (except for a handful of video apps) by Apple. Yes the idea of running some of the apps and games presently on your iPhone or iPad on a large screen TV sounds great, but it should be possible to do so without buying the same products (hardware and software) over and over and over again.



    Posted by: Sue |
    August 24, 2010 7:52 PM




















  3. I think Sue makes some great points. While I don't own an iPad, I think I'd be a little upset if I had to pay for an app again (assuming I'd already purchased it for my iPhone), or pay a lot more for the iPad version, especially if the iPad version didn't offer any more functionality than the iPhone version. In instances like that I could definitely see where piracy rates could be higher for the iPad app.



    In order to install pirated apps you first have to jailbreak your iDevice though, so if the piracy rate on the iPad really is higher, does that mean the jailbreak rate on the iPad is also higher? Or maybe that iPad jailbreakers pirate more apps than iPhone jailbreakers? Or both? (fwiw, I've not jailbroken my 3GS, though I did jailbreak my old unactivated 3G using jailbreakme.com, just to see what all the fuss was about).



    Posted by: Jason W. |
    August 25, 2010 7:07 AM




















  4. Their idiots.



    Maybe I liked the game and handed it to one of my friends, who registered for the game leaderboard seperately



    Posted by: your mother |
    August 25, 2010 8:14 AM




















  5. Piracy could actually destroy some of these app developers which would mean there would be fewer apps on the app store.



    Posted by: iPad |
    August 25, 2010 11:53 AM




















  6. Good post ! it certainly was not the truth. Again, it sounds like this dev is charging a decent price for his product. Other developers who have tripled or quadrupled prices for iPad have created a feeling of distrust.



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    August 26, 2010 2:35 AM























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    1. Gimmick? No. Drawings and contests to attract prospects have been around for centuries. So, why pick on the iPad as a hot new gadget to generate leads? It's cool and companies that associate themselves with something that cool no doubt will be seen by many as cool, too. The better questions to ask revolve around your strategy and how a drawing of any kind will help grow your business:



      1) What do you want - why hold a drawing or contest? To generate sales leads, butts in seats, buzz?

      2) Who do you want to attract? Be sure to promote the contest in the places that will generate leads for your ideal client.

      3) Tie the iPad promotion into something specific about your business - is there an app, information or activity that will help contestants learn more about your business so they become prospects or a customer?

      4) What now? Once you've got all these new leads, do you have a plan to follow-up? A drip marketing campaign? A sales call? Capture them in your CRM?



      With a strategy in mind, it's not a bribe - it's brilliant.



      Posted by: Rick L'Amie |
      August 22, 2010 7:38 PM




















    2. Using an iPad prize to bring attention to something is probably effective, but I would guess that anyone who knows of the prize probably already knows about the event. So the question is: Does the prize translate into new conversions, or simply reward the people who were already converted? More often than not, I would bet the latter.



      Posted by: ParkerWest |
      August 22, 2010 7:54 PM




















    3. Apple is famous for their outstanding products, and do you want to promotion the Earth Film via them? the way that I can relate films with ipad is video converter maybe dvd ripper, do you want to offer an tutorial with winner about "how to convert ***to ipad"? handbrake is free, but I use ifunia all the time.



      Posted by: stonee |
      August 22, 2010 8:39 PM




















    4. Why not offer an Android smartphone like the HTC EVO. All the fAndroid nerds think they're the ultimate shizzle and far better than any iPhone. Haha.



      Posted by: LaughingBoy48 |
      August 22, 2010 9:39 PM




















    5. @Laura - thanks.



       Posted by: Adrianne Jeffries |
      August 22, 2010 9:55 PM




















    6. Well, Ipad is cool and companies that associate themselves with something that cool no doubt will be seen by many as cool.



      Posted by: Susan |
      August 23, 2010 3:00 AM




















    7. Apple's iPad is the modern equivalent of the coveted 2G USB flash thumb drive in 2004.



      Seriously. :)



      Go back through your old email archives and dig up what passed for getting traffic for seminars and webinars back then.



      It makes you wonder what 2016 will be like if/when "iPad" is considered a $6 commodity item you can buy at a gas station.



       Posted by: Jay Cuthrell |
      August 23, 2010 3:36 AM




















    8. So people want an iPad but just don't want to spend the money.



      Posted by: John Ford Parker |
      August 23, 2010 4:29 AM




















    9. Well, someone will probably say that I'm crazy, but I don't want an iPad for free, moreover, I don't want an iPad even if someone paid me for getting it.



      Posted by: lady a. |
      August 23, 2010 4:46 AM




















    10. Giving away an iPad for free for promotional purposes is really an effective gimmick.



      Posted by: Showbiz Galore |
      August 23, 2010 6:11 AM




















    11. I wonder how long it will keep up, and would it work just as well if they had given away netbooks or something else?



      I run a laser engraving biz and specialize in iPads. I've engraved a dozen or so used for giveaways now. Seems like a great idea since it keeps your name out there after the iPad is gone and the contest over.



      Posted by: Sara |
      August 23, 2010 7:45 AM




















    12. Fwiw, when Alcatel-Lucent gave away iPads at the last ReadWriteWeb Summit, people LOVED it. It was an awesome prize, and I'll never forget the DIY rocket scientist turned real-time web hacker who won one and would never have spent the money to buy one himself. He was elated, like a little boy, it was beautiful.



       Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick |
      August 23, 2010 8:07 AM




















    13. in next month, i hope i can get the ipad, ipad is wonderful..



      Posted by: anna |
      August 23, 2010 8:53 AM




















    14. The biggest advantage of using iPods or iPads as giveaways is that most people know about them and want them. On www.showtribe.com we were initially planning to give away a harmony universal device since it's more in line with what the website is about. But then we decided on an iPod touch for reasons mentioned above.



      Posted by: CJ |
      August 23, 2010 4:15 PM




















    15. When I win my 1st iPad, I shall frame it and put it on the wall, above my framed Kindle.



      Posted by: S |
      August 23, 2010 5:01 PM




















    16. I think using an iPad in a giveaway would be very effective because all apple products are so popular



      Posted by: iPad |
      August 24, 2010 8:34 AM
























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School: Back to school shopping ripoffs?


Back to School by DodogoeSLR




I recently thought about the zoo, thanks to a Daily Caller opinion piece by a young man about to graduate from my old grad school.



In the article, entitled "Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, fostering a culture of liberalism," the self-identified conservative Brian Schneider wrote about how Medill teaches its students a liberal media bias. His proof was that some professors were liberals.



Like I said, it made me think of the zoo.



It was Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in 2004 and, as so many have done before, I walked into the reptile house. Surrounded by the various caimans, tuataras, iguanas and skinks, I, as has happened to so many, was forced to become a reptile.



My skin turned green and scaly, I went from endo- to ectothermic and, in that life-affirming and horrifying moment every boy remembers forever, laid my first batch of soft, mucousy eggs.



Then I left the reptile house, walking by the bird house, growing a beak and a gastric mill in the process. The monkey house came next, where I grew a tail and predilection for Paul Frank designs.



It is well-known, after all, that one cannot be around a large group of things for any period of time without becoming one of them, be they reptiles, birds, monkeys or liberals.



I am truly astounded Mr. Schneider was able to keep his conservative bent in an atmosphere where, if his experience was anything like mine, he was constantly drilled with bits of liberal propaganda like Flash animation and deserving an F if you spell a name wrong. Just half an hour ago, I and everyone on the alumni listserv was subjected to a political tirade by a current professor asking if the distinction between "farther" and "further" was becoming less relevant. Grammar is elitist!



Given this liberal indoctrination camp, it was sort of odd that none of Mr. Schneider's examples of liberal bias at Medill were actually from the classroom.



I mean, he talked about an e-mail chain where two professors commented on their admiration for the Daily Show calling out Sean Hannity for manipulating footage to make a rally appear larger than it was.



And he talked about the speakers brought in for the completely optional lectures. At the private university Mr. Schneider and I both chose to attend. I really hate to be the one to explain the free market to a conservative.



Mr. Schneider did mention some professors mocking Fox News' "fair and balanced" slogan. (Which, beyond all sarcasm, shows that Fox News has some pretty severe problems with balance if even defenders like Mr. Schneider equate an attack on Fox with an attack on conservatism.)



But Mr. Schneider didn't give even one example of teaching politics under the guise of journalism (although he did mention one professor terming him a "lone wolf" for being a conservative, a term I think sounds sort of cool). Must be an omission.



His major point seemed to be that 15 percent of the full-time Medill journalism faculty contributed to Democratic causes, where only one person contributed only to Republicans.



Unless I'm counting from a different list than Mr. Schneider (and that's not snark; I actually want to make sure we're talking on the same terms), Medill has 53 full-time journalism faculty members.



So 15 percent of that comes out to be eight people. Eight people who have at some point donated to Democrats. And, as Mr. Schneider points out, some of them, including the dean, have also contributed to Republicans.



Out of 53 people, eight contributed to Democratic campaigns at some point in their lives and one contributed solely to Republicans. Add that to having to associate with people who don't like Fox News and living through the horror of being called a "lone wolf." Mr. Schneider, I'm amazed you survived this commie Hogwarts.



I think the major criticism of Medill should be not that it's a liberal brainwashing academy, but that they would award a master's degree to someone who would try to pass off this mishmash of contradictory statements, hurt feelings and misleading statistics as an argument.



Are there liberals at Medill? Yes. Now show me any one of them abusing their positions to force-feed liberal bias. Otherwise, you've just exposed nine people for openly contributing to campaigns they cared about. What's next? Outing Elton John?



Mr. Schneider tried to manipulate figures by comparing percentages to numerals, was unable to find an example of professors teaching liberal dogma in the classroom and tried to defend something as "balanced" (not favoring a side) while identifying it as "conservative" (the name of the side they favored).



(And by the way, how is conservative Fox News, which has as many U.S. viewers as all other cable news networks combined and is part of a $30 billion multinational conglomerate called "News Corporation," somehow always overlooked when people talk about "the liberal media"? If we're looking at sheer market share, there's no media more mainstream than Fox. That always bugs me.)



Either way, Mr. Schneider, their liberal plot failed: You seem to have left Medill with the same opinions you had when you entered. You were able to be around people who thought differently than you do and yet did not become one of them.



You stayed Republican in a place where eight people contributed to at least one Democrat, compared to one person who contributed solely to Republicans. I and my soft, mucousy eggs salute you.







By now you should have had enough time to decide what on our laptop buying guide takes your fancy, but, as Apple will tell you, the protective case is sometimes as important as the precious hardware itself. You'll notice that this year we have a good number of bags that include padded camera sections as well -- to the point of perhaps being described as camera bags with laptop compartments -- but we feel that's justified by the massive proliferation of DSLRs into the mainstream market. Entry-level interchangeable lens shooters have grown cheap enough even for non-photography students to consider owning one, but we can think of no good reason why they should require a separate bag of their own. So, on with the recommendations.



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Buy what you need for the first day of school but don’t buy too much for the rest of the year. Some items, such as pencils and pens, might be useful to stock up on if there is a great sale. But since many stores overstock on items, you may actually be able to find some bargains by scanning for sales after the back to school rush is over.
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