I love my iPad and considering the amount of staff where I work who’ve acquired one since its launch nearly two years ago and especially this Christmas you just get the feeling that the momentum behind the ‘only’ tablet is just going to continue to snowball. But even though they are all converts to Apple’s immature platform the one thing that they all ask for is Windows and Office functionality and finally I can say… you can have it!
I wouldn’t call myself a hardcore gamer but most certainly a casual one mostly occupying my time with iPhone and iPad games but sometimes I really get a hankering to play the latest and greatest console games on the market but as I don’t indulge that often I can’t really justify the cost of an Xbox 360 or PS3 especially with the price of games nowadays. Well check OnLive the cloud service that apparently allows you to do away with all that clunky expensive hardware and allows you to run graphically intense and processor heavy titles on your regular home computer.
So do you have an old netbook lying around that needs a new lease of life? Now you may have heard of Cloud operating systems that run in a browser and do everything in the cloud which means that a low power PC can do a lot more. Now this may not be everyone’s cup of tea as their prime computing experience but if you think about it terms of a tablet such as the iPad then you may be intrigued. Basically my iPad sits next to me on the sofa when I’m watching the box. If I quickly want to check something online or look at my email I simply pick up my iPad which turns on instantly allowing me to get stuff done and then just put it back down again. Well if you’re not in the market for a tablet or they are way out of your budget then how about a netbook that acts pretty much the same? Then why not try JoliCloud?
If you’re like me then you use multiple devices over the course of a day (in my case it can be up to 6) and if like me you like to take notes wouldn’t it be great if you could take a note on one device and then for that note to be synced with all of your other devices? Well up until recently I thought that option was Google Docs which is fine if you’re on a PC or Mac with a full fat OS but I found it be be a little lacking on iOS and Android devices. But worry no longer intrepid note takers as Evernote is here to save the day.
OK so I’ve spent my first week with Apple’s newest and greatest iPhone so what’s the deal? Was it worth the wait? And do you really need it?