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Good and Bad: Update on My Experience Using Two Windows 8.1 Machines
There are just too many variations in the basic user interaction experience that aren’t being easily handled in a unified fashion by Windows 8.1. That’s a serious issue that goes back to basic design decisions regarding the relationship between software functionality and physical delivery platform.
We have entered a very complex computing landscape where, if you do not have an affiliation with an organization that is in a position to specify an official computing and file sharing architecture and infrastructure, things can get complicated.
The Fundamental Problem with Windows 8: One Non-User's Perspective
James Kendrick really nails one of the biggest problems with Windows 8 in The disconnect with Windows 8.1: Hiding the Utility. His summary:
On Reading the Digital Edition of the Washington Post on the iPad Mini
I learned recently that home subscribers to the Washington Post newspaper also receive the digital edition, so I added it to my wife’s iPad Mini. What follows is a description of my initial reactions as a reader.
Oh, I know you are supposed to be able to fine-tune all the all this via Facebook settings. But I have more important things to do than to constantly rejigger confusing Facebook notification and privacy settings.
In some ways, you might say that Google is just as secretive as Apple when it comes to customer data.
I’ve really enjoyed using my iPhone for web access, basic communications, and social media such as Google+, Twitter, and Linkedin. I’ve found the user interfaces and resulting user experience for many such smartphone apps tend to be simpler and more straightforward than the web versions. Increasingly I find myself actually preferring the smartphone experience over the web experience.