Comments for Bites of Apple

Comment on Free copies of CoPilot Live iPad app available by Bruce Hobbs

Bruce Hobbs — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:07:10 +0000

Is it really as cool as it looks? Any codes left?

Comment on WorldCard Mobile corrals those planets of business cards by Ron Seybold

Ron Seybold — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:19:06 +0000

Patrick, you’re making a good point about extending a product category’s functionality. I look forward to seeing your product in our in-box to do an evaluation.

Comment on WorldCard Mobile corrals those planets of business cards by Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:57:02 +0000

WorldCard Mobile is a solid non-nonsense accurate and fast business card reader. It indeed focuses on one good thing – scanning cards well and adding to your address book – but given all that a smart phone can do, that may be a too narrow focus. ScanBizCards is the next evolutionary step: it does what WorldCard does but then adds 17 extended features beyond scanning: network, connect, follow-up, share.

And you don’t have to chose between the phone and your desktop: ScanBizCards is web-enabled, saving cards in real-time to the cloud and letting you access and manage them from your desktop too.

Comment on Can the iPad become your mobile desktop? by Ron Seybold

Ron Seybold — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:51:02 +0000

Thanks Bruce. I have changed the lead in and checked the URL on that link, but the article does refer to whether an iPad or Atrix could become a replacement for a desktop.

Comment on Can the iPad become your mobile desktop? by Bruce Hobbs

Bruce Hobbs — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:42:22 +0000

Is that InfoWorld link correct? The article it sent me to didn’t talk about mobile apps. Or did you just mean the productivity vs. consumption issue?

Comment on Verizon’s iPhone 4 sells out pre-orders by Donte Bargerstock

Donte Bargerstock — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:28:33 +0000

Alright alright… I’m convinced. Each of my family members will finally get one of these iphones. Love the iPhone…hate ATT… so getting an iPhone with the best carrier in the states is an easy choice.

Comment on The Daily arrives on iPads, offers news to chat up clients by Eric

Eric — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:43:45 +0000

Ron,
Ever heard of PressReader? I have been using it for a few months now and am loving it! This IS the iPad kiosk for thousands of daily newspapers. Not sure why those guys don’t make more noise and promote themselves over the likes of Murdoch & Co.

Comment on Android tablet emerges as phone company’s tool by Bruce Hobbs

Bruce Hobbs — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:14:00 +0000

Looks like they’re now building (and presumably selling) twice that number and shooting for 3M:

Comment on Take note and organize on the iPad by Bites of Apple » Why The Atlantic is Wrong about iPad

Bites of Apple » Why The Atlantic is Wrong about iPad — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:30:42 +0000

[...] transfer is likely to be smooth. (Look for our report next week.) There will be a $2.99 purchase of Infinote to organize projects and communication, and maybe even a copy of OmniGraffle, although I use the [...]

Comment on Making your passwords better for less by Jon

Jon — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:48:05 +0000

Of your five rules of thumb, I like 1, 2, and 5, but I think the value of mixed-case and punctuation in passwords is overrated. In terms of bang-for-buck, if you’re going to invest more keystrokes, it’s better to spend them typing longer passwords rather than hitting the shift key. For example, “xyag9p7wzo” takes the same number of keystrokes as “Wd&eq9%” but most people could probably type the first example faster, and it is more secure because it is almost 50% longer, less vulnerable to brute-force. I’ll grant you that if the attacker *knows* I never use the shift key, it would allow for a slightly more efficient brute-force algorithm.

Of course, all of the above only applies for passwords that must be physically typed. If I’m using a password manager that transmits the stored passwords for me, then I’ll use the maximum allowable range of characters with full cryptographic randomness, for example https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm