Off-the-cuff iPad thoughts:

If you were about to purchase, or are a fan of the Kindle, CrunchPad, netbooks… or digital picture frames, Apple just made your device.

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Oh yeah. This is awesome news. I use the iPhone app Crosswords nearly every day during my commute, and was just thinking this morning; how sweet would it be to play that game on a larger screen – like on the Apple Tablet surely arriving tomorrow.

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Hopefully I’m not alone in this regard.

During some pre-spring cleaning, decided to toss out some old Apple product boxes I’ve had lying around. iPhone 3G, iPod Nano, and a Mac Mini packaging. With the first one, it’s obvious this box has been in my possession for over two years. Haven’t touched it since that initial unboxing, so there’s really no sane reason why I kept it around for so long – not planning on reselling or putting the iPhone away in storage or anything. It’s just been taking up space in the closet.

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Found this suspicious video at Distorted Loop. This tablet device looks very Apple-y: black device, touch screen, Cover Flow, slick animations, even a black “x” for a window close. Perhaps this is a tablet-specific Ikea app.

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Now is the time in the Apple product announcement hype cycle where I temper fantasies with heavy dollops of reality because it will soon affect my bottom line: opening up the wallet and actually buying something. So what follows is a list of what features the Apple tablet must sport to initiate a purchase.

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In the past I’ve been reluctant to get on the whole “cloud computing” bandwagon. I still don’t really get the trade off of productivity with having all your stuff up in some server somewhere, and like having local files that I control and for all the time spent in a web browser, an equivalent amount is spent offline doing stuff to said files.

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Increasingly likely Apple will announce their oft-rumored Apple Tablet come January 27, one big niggling detail is what to name the thing. Three likely contenders are the iSlate, iTablet, or iPad.

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Over the past few weeks I’ve been wrestling with a Mac Mini hooked up to the television. While I’ve largely bent it to my will (and streamlined it so the spouse largely approves) – it still feels funny.

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Two posts the other day solidified another thought rolling around in the back of my mind. The first was a WSJ article World Wide Mush (a promotion for a new book You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier), and Google Lacks Humanity by Joe Wilcox at Beta News.

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This post by Jeff Solomon outlines everything I would want in an Apple Tablet, presented keynote style. Highlights:

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