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The new Mailbox app for iPhone and iPad: so far, a waste of time

Posted on 2013.03.20 by winterSmith 14 comments

Like many of you, I had been hearing about this new app called Mailbox. The buzz said it was a killer mobile app that was in nearly every respect superior to the default e-mail program in iPhone and iPad. So I went to the App Store and signed up, only to be told that I was in line behind a

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Educating PlayNation: Obama, iPads, Xboxes and America’s culture of noise

Posted on 2010.05.10 by winterSmith 12 comments

President Barack Obama yesterday took a shot at America’s culture of noise and the media and entertainment technologies that foster it. In addressing the commencement exercises at Hampton University, Obama said: “With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather