Mega-Rick. electronic cholesterol music.

My first thought to this device: Awesome, like a blowJobs…keep in mind that it is neither a laptop nor a smartphone but fills in a gap that was so badly needed to be filled.

Sick and tired of being alone in bed at night turning crumbly pages of your ol’ paperbook? Don’t want to boil your limbs and legs with the undersurface of your laptop while surfing the internet?
Show your last holiday trip fotos easily to grandma? Easy, easy iPad…

…but why it really fills in a big leaking gap for me is: Have you ever studied a subject that demands you to carry a lot of books? For example the corpus juris as a law student? Imagine your bag? – Pencil, Paper, iPad. Since they offer a iPad version of iWork there is seriously no need for me to carry my laptop to university anymore. No need for papernotebooks or calenders and everything is synced of course. I reckon there will be so much intuitive software that it will actually the device I carry around on my usual (working) day, like Laptop for the professional and challenging tasks, iPad for the small office tasks (and diverting entertainment, hehe) at university or wherever, iPhone for the street and the informations you need as quickly as possible in the palm of your hands; all located in a synced environment backed up with a server-like, consumer-friendly Timecapsule as its heart and memory.

Useless: The keyboard dock. I do not want to type on that. It’s useless for Numbers, since this app seems to work only in horizontal mode (hence useless for all other horizontal mode apps – hopefully not too much) and I have the feeling the keyboard itself is too close to the screen. I’d rather use a bluetooth keyboard with the standard craddle instead. Or a luxury craddle that offers more usb links and the like, decent stereo sound, a tiltable “screen” etc..

And it would be awesome if you could connect it to your standard machine as a kind of input device like a graphic tablet + showing all photoshop tools on the iPad.

The best would be an app, that makes it a midi device for Logic or Garageband. Like a Korg Kaoss Pad. – See, it’s all pad.

Awesome….keep in mind that it is 2010 now. Cars gonna fly soon and people will say like “Did you came by car?” – “No, no. We came by jetpack since the weather was so good.” – “Nice. Have a beer and grab a steak in a pill from the grill!”

Well, there is still one little detail that’s kinda disappointing about the iPad announcement yesterday – what about a Macbook Pro update? I need a new laptop so badly. Please…with a thousands of cores, seriously.

iPad I like it.

By the way: Doesn’t the iBook app (wich is great I think) reminds you a bit of Delicious Library (wich might be even greater)?

Stream the Apple Special Event 2010 here.

Remember my last post on cybercrime related stuff (ok, more or less a music post, but still)?

One problem with cybercrime I stumbled upon while thinking about it was that the more users entering the internet with different computers the more targets for cybercriminals are present because of the different security levels depending on the security measures taken by the individuals. In other words, what I mean is, that while more different computers are using the internet it becomes harder to guarantee a specific security standard for example by measures provided by the user’s OS.

Now, while surfing the Inet (with very low security measures, of course), I stumbled upon this article that introduced me a solution, that makes sense to me: Cloud computing.

If everyone uses a program maintained on the highest level possible in one central place, it would be harder for cybercriminals to attack (regarding offences like hacking etc…I reckon phishing, spaming, pharming would be still possible).

The big BUT(T) is: What happens, if the central maintained program is hacked? In this case, everyone using this specific prog is affected – bad.

Well, I don’t have the answer yet, but I sure know, that guy who wrote the article mentioned above is way more intelligent than me (I guess). But what I know: Who wants to lose his data? Not me!

P.s.: Funny how all the problems derive from and may be solved by the Internet.

Ok here is the explanation of my newly introduced subcategory “Untitles“.

Untitles are titles that aren’t actual titles. Therefore they are UN-titles. Like small songs, drafts or skits of music. Ideas or fragments of melodies. Sort of musical smithereens. Ok – get it? Fine.

First example of an Untitle is the previous post of course.

The joy of using a computer originates in my opinion from giving its operator the ability to create virtual items and even worlds out of the apparent nothingness.

What do you thing?

Bear those items/worlds any value? Should they be considered as property in a legal sense? What about reality then? Acquires someone a right of intellectual property by  creating an empty txt-file? Who – the user or the coder of the software that created that file? Does this influence cybercrime and how should legislation react upon this in your opinion?

I’m curious about any comments and thoughts from you, and won’t comment myself for a start…poems wouldn’t go amiss, too.

Furthermore I made an EP to put you in good humour.

DOWNLOAD About Computers [zip / 3.8 MB]

1. Dear Fast Computer,..[192 kbit / mp3]
2. …why it’s such a pleasure? [192 kbit / mp3]

Edit 2010-01-02: Someone wrote me an email saying the songtitles are wrong – No they’re not, they’re intended to be exactly the way they are.