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Advances in retail experiences for Bangkok's Mac users
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 25/01/2017
» Research company Gartner claims that 20% of organisations will use smartphones in place of physical access cards by 2020. A few days before reading that, I had been in the new head office of COM7, where staff are signed in and out using iBeacon and a smartphone app. This also controls access to specific areas. I was attending an Open Day at the building in Sanphawut Road, Bang Na.
15-inch MacBook Pro a delightful experience
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 30/11/2016
» Every time Apple releases a new product there is a rush to print. There have been thousands of comments about the new MacBook Pro and what is wrong with it (and Apple), but much of that wasted effort is by those who haven't even seen the device, let alone touched it.
Watertight Apple improvements
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 14/09/2016
» Last week in San Francisco Apple announced new versions of the Apple Watch along with the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. The event focused only on these devices leaving Mac owners fretting. A comment from Tim Cook suggests there will be updated Macs coming soon.
Hasselblad H6D-50C digital camera: quality device, quality output
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 08/06/2016
» One of the most iconic photographs taken in the last 50 years is of the Earth from the Moon. Neil Armstrong took that on the first Moon flight in 1969. He used a Hasselblad 500 EL Data camera.
Connectivity, finding lost devices
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 09/09/2015
» In a few hours time, Apple will announce several new products at its event at the Bill Graham Center in San Francisco. Although many commentators have already given us their authoritative ideas on what will be announced, only Apple knows.
Apple notebooks: then and now
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 12/03/2014
» In the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller related, in the chapter “Think Different: Jobs as iCEO”, that on his return to Apple, Jobs drew a horizontal and vertical line on a whiteboard to make a matrix with four quadrants. At the top he wrote, “Consumer” and “Pro”. The two rows were labelled “Desktop” and “Portable”. While Gil Amelio had been trying to have more products approved, Steve said that fewer were needed.