great for users, not so good for companies that advertise?

am thinking that, for the end user, this will be great as it'll increase the chances of your search returning a useful result.

but for companies, unless they're the big popular franchises, their hit rates will drop.

woohoo no title required!!

but apparently the post itself is still mandatory? such oppression to our basic rights of expression!!!

but...

surely it's easier and cheaper to send the file to your mac at home and save it as a pdf file using the Print dialogue?

you've got to be pretty desperate to send out your newly edited document via pdf to warrant that price tag

eh?

you mean someone on the internet was actually using their real name and not an alias? what is the (virtual) world coming to??

open an attachment in Pages?

if someone emails me a document and i want to take a look and read it before deciding if i want to keep/use it, i use the QuickLook option to read it, instead of firing up a full blown application for the minute or two it takes to read the doc.

not saying that the way Lion allows apps to keep a Version copy of a deleted file isn't a problem, but i would suggest you're not making the most efficient use of the other features that Lion (an even the previous OS X versions) provide.

wonder at impact on tablet market

the Touchpad firesale has probably caused quite a lot of people who were tablet-sceptic to give it a try. this will probably boost the tablet market quite a bit, and in a couple of years, once the touchpad is too slow and too unsupported to be useable, there's going to be a lot of people buying apples or samsungs to replace it

so

no point in trying to set up that grid-number-crunching client to help them analyse the data then?

but why?

the appeal of the touchpad was that it ran webos - if you want to run android, get an android tablet to start with

sold out

so seems the ploy worked, i couldn't find any available on their site now.

i was almost tempted too, but then, there's a very good reason why they're discounting the price so much, so probably a good thing other people got there first before i came to my senses and realised that even at that price, it's a long way from a bargain

WebOS can't be all that bad

apparently it runs quite nicely on iPad2 hardware. A shame HP insisted on running on their old hardware design.

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/19/hps-webos-reportedly-runs-significantly-faster-on-ipad-2-than-on-touchpad/

These tracks are side by side.

Sandpeople always ride single file to hide their numbers.

and who's going to bother now that HP are checking out

now that HP have announced they're getting out of the hardware business, who's going to bother buying one of these when it'll be unsupported in the very near future?

and for non-amazon bought books?

Can i load it with kindle format ebooks that i've aquired from alternate sources other than amazon?

Because of all the people i know with a kindle, only one or two have bought the majority of their books from amazon, the rest have downloaded a torrent of 1000 fiction books and are slowly working their way through them

Wasted opportunity

If it doesn't have a touch screen then it at least needs arcade joysticks and button for playing old skool space invanders

my way or the Huawei

need a new keyboard, this one's covered in tea... bravo sir !!!

in contrast

funny though, your article appears to contradict Mr Orlowski's article from earlier today which suggests Google's purchase was pointless

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/15/google_motorola_the_poker_chip_that_cant_be_redeemed/

why motorolla?

when was the last, decent, well-made, good-looking motorolla phone? i can't think of one

this purchase was purely for the big bag of patents

wouldn't be surprised to find google wind down and throw away the actual phone-making part of the company they've purchased and just keep the patents to protect android.

had the first version of this for my ipad1

and while it worked very well, as the review says the new version does, i did find it rather pointless having a bluetooth keyboard attached to my ipad.

the device is a touchscreen device, afterall, and the majority of uses involve touching the screen, which isn't overly comfortable when propped up for typing.

so in the end, i've got a much lighter and form-fitting cover and have grown to get used to typing on the on screen keyboard

business in the cloud?

at least you won't have to worry about being looted in the riots

we're all doomed!!

But.... isn't the earth's magnetic field s'posed to be failing and about to flip so that north is south and south is north some time soon? And when that happens, isn't there a change that all these antiprotons that are floating in the air, will drop down, hit normal matter and Marvin the Martain will have his earth-shattering ka-boom!!

does Dave smoke much?

i'm just saying, http://www.marijuana.com/medicinal-marijuana/14798-panic-attacks-paranoia-anxiety.html

translation

Drummond said on Wednesday in a blog post "waaaghh waaaghh waaaaghhh the big boys are picking on me!! i want my mummy!!!! waaaghh"

no thanks

3D in the cinema? yes, that I quite enjoy.

I don't think there's really any need for it in the living room though, and certainly not on a phone.

damnit

well, to be honest, F1 has been getting very boring, that i keep on forgetting to watch it

at least now, i won't be able to watch it, so won't have to feel annoyed that i've missed it

thanks El Reg!!

I'd been waiting _forever_ for you to do a round up of in-earphones as my old ones dies over a year ago and I'd been making do with a cheap 7 quid pair from Maplin.

But when I saw the review you gave the Reid and Heath's when you did the competition, and I failed to win a pair, I went ahead and got those anyway and they've been outstanding!

So was a little worried to read this article in case it turned out I'd made a bad choice, but there's no way I'd pay that kind of money for the other Recommended options, so nice to know I got the right ones :-)

so

this kinda sucks for all the other manufacturers then.

over half the people asked would rather wait in the hope that a future, rumoured product will be better than the current ipad, instead of buying one of the currently available alternatives

wasn't there a similar survey last year about how most people were going to wait for the RIM Playbook - and we know how well that turned out!

WSJ

if the WSJ were really that concerned about their end user experience, they should put the effort in to add all the account management features of the website (and really, how many of those can there be?) to their iApp. And it shouldn't be too difficult to work out how to sync the content and which articles people have read across the devices as well. It just requires a bit of effort on their part to write an app that does more than just stream articles from their site.

proof?

needs Playmobile recreation, or it didn't happen

LaunchPad

This is the fault of Adobe for installing their apps in such an archaic and pointless way. there's no difference to searching for the Creative Suite group in Launchpad and then having to find the app underneath that, than there is in going to your Applications folder, searching for the Adobe folder and then having the search again for InDesign underneath that, which has been a pain in the neck since long before Lion or Leopard for that matter.

You know, Apple haven't gotten rid of the Applications folder on the Dock. Nor have they stopped you from putting often used apps on the Dock for easy access. Or, as you say, you can use Spotlight.

The LaunchPad is just another way of accessing your apps. It's not the only way.

awesome

am uninstalling my antivirus software as i type....