Author Archives: alexknight

Let’s say your iPad has replaced your laptop. Let’s also say you replaced your iMac or Mac Pro with a MacBook Air. With incredibly useful wireless technology like AirPlay, wouldn’t be nifty if you could not only send a video or audio signal from your iOS device to an Apple TV, but also directly toContinue reading “We Need AirPlay Enabled Thunderbolt Displays”

Three weeks ago, I decided to sell my iPhone 4. After three weeks of living without a mobile phone, and after much deliberation, I decided to pickup a 16GB white iPhone 4S. My entire life I’ve always purchased black electronics. It doesn’t matter if it was a phone or home theatre equipment; there’s just somethingContinue reading “A Veritable Piece of Art: The White iPhone 4S”

I am super happy for the entire Instagram team. Being acquired by Facebook is obviously a huge deal for them, and it’s a brilliant exit strategy. From a users perspective though, I’m sure many see doom and gloom in the future — even though those fears may have been quelled by Kevin Systrom when heContinue reading “Thoughts on Instagram”

There’s a massive disparity between data sucking smartphones and data plans offered by carriers. Customers know this, and the carriers are fully cognizant of it. The problem is they make a ton of money from you already, and since you probably don’t have a lot of choice as far as competition is concerned, they canContinue reading “The Disparity between Smartphones And Mobile Carriers”

While I do not feel entirely sorry for the current situation RIM has allowed themselves to get into, I realize it’s easy to bash a company when they’re down. Lest we forget that an incumbent, no matter how successful they are now, could be disrupted by a newcomer. I have zero concerns that Apple isContinue reading “Remnants of A Bygone Era”

Last week I wrote about my decision to go with the 16GB Wi-Fi iPad. If you haven’t read that piece yet, I suggest doing that first and then coming back to this later. On March 16, I had waited patiently in line for a new iPad. Long story short, I did end up with theContinue reading “32 Is The New 16”

I was a little bummed out on Friday night. After not sleeping for a day and waiting more than eight hours in the pouring rain for the new iPad, I was simply too exhausted to do any writing that evening. Initially I had hoped to start writing this review immediately after unboxing my iPad, withContinue reading “In Review: The Third Generation iPad”

Ever since I picked up my new iPad on Friday, I’ve been testing iTunes Match and iCloud syncing. I decided to see how well it would stream music from iCloud, so that’s one of the first things I did when I got home. I know I’ve complained about the music app on iOS before, butContinue reading “iCloud Music Streaming on The New iPad”

Now the waiting begins for developers to push out updated apps with 2x image assets to support the new iPad’s Retina display. Of course, many have anticipated that Apple would be shipping a higher resolution display, so the prudent course of action for many was to include 2x image assets months ago. The problem thatContinue reading “The Wait for Updated iPad Apps: Supporting The Retina Display”

As you all know, Apple is opening their retail stores at 8am on March 16 for the launch of the third generation iPad. I have never been to any launch event or have ever had to wait in a line for anything. In the past, I would wait weeks, if not months, to get whateverContinue reading “iPad Launch Event: Live from Pacific Centre, Vancouver”