RIP Steve Jobs

creative genius...

 I'm really sad that Steve Jobs lost his years-long battle with pancreatic cancer. I am a late-blooming Apple fan. I was a loyal Palm handheld user for many years and was perfectly content with my Palm Zires. I've had maybe five successive models of the Zire since college! So predictable. I didn't quite understand my older sister's obsession with Apple products then.

But a few years ago, I finally succumbed and bought an iPod Touch and immediately fell in love. It was such a shock to go from the bulky Palm PDA to this thin, smooth and snazzy media player, personal digital assistant, game console, e-book reader etc. Now I couldn't imagine leaving home without it.

just the beginning...

Thanks to Steve Jobs, we can enjoy tech gadgets that are functional but also works of art. Not only that, his co-founding Pixar in my opinion, was the best he ever did. I just love Pixar! I watched every movie they ever made and they were all great (Ok, Cars 2 was merely good, but whatever). RIP Steve, thanks for everything!

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Documents To Go® for my iPod touch

I finally downloaded the Documents To Go office application from the App Store for my 64 gig iPod touch . I've used this on my old Palm Zire 71 device and I'm glad it has been made available for iPhone and iPod touch users. I was leaning on buying the Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite that my friend Wacks absolutely swears is amazing, but in the end I went with what's already familiar to me.

The $9.99 (P460) basic Documents To Go do not have PowerPoint editing and email exchange access, so I decided to get the Documents To Go Premium for $14.99 (P756.39) instead. I'm not much of a techie person but I've just got to be able to create or edit my Microsoft Office documents on the go, so this is a very useful addition to my mobile applications. Now if only I could do something about the iPod touch screen shifting from portrait to landscape view, when I tilt it sideways while reading, it would be perfect.

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