{"id":191,"date":"2011-08-17T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T00:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/?p=191"},"modified":"2012-05-02T23:59:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:59:41","slug":"in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"In a Nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The iPad was widely criticised at first for its Noddy home screen; there were no software or hardware concessions made regarding multitasking or task-switching. But the result is something my two-year-olds can easily navigate, and which really doesn&#8217;t need a manual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/08\/15\/samsung_tab_android_trouble\/\">Samsung&#8217;s lovely illegal tablet: Why no one wants to know \u2022 The Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To which I&#8217;d add that most apps I&#8217;ve downloaded that have required reference to any sort of instructions have\u00a0rapidly\u00a0found themselves in the disused folder.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s the fact that your 2 year old and your Gran can use it. Sure it&#8217;s got the grunt of a desktop machine from a decade ago but you can get apps that do more than my first (Pentium 100 Windows 95) PC ever did*, and more intuitively. Without instructions. The software-becomes-the-device.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>*I still get the heebees thinking about how I struggled to get Cubase on that old PC to do more than any four-track cassette could have at the time..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPad was widely criticised at first for its Noddy home screen; there were no software or hardware concessions made regarding multitasking or task-switching. But the result is something my two-year-olds can easily navigate, and which really doesn&#8217;t need a manual. via Samsung&#8217;s lovely illegal tablet: Why no one wants to know \u2022 The Register. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/?p=191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In a Nutshell<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-ianap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}