Have A Laptop? Now Go Buy One Of These Logitech Comfort Lapdesks Right Now (seriously)
Since I’ve been using my laptop, a nifty Apple MacBook Pro 17”, ‘unibody’ mid-2009 model, about 12 to 14 hours a day the laptop spends an inordinate amount of time on, well, on my, err, lap. In the morning, before I get out of bed, the laptop sits atop a pillow, which sits atop my lap, after that the laptop is resting on my laptop in the office, and when I return home bit before I turn in for the night, my laptop sits upon a sofa pillow in my living room.
(Now seriously, that’s a lot more information than you needed to know, isn’t it?). I tell you this because after using what Logitech calls a “Comfort Lapdesk” for the better half of the day I’m about as excited about this new product as I was when my RAM upgrade arrived (more on that at the end of November). This is the best $39.99 you can spend on any laptop owner, as a gift for yourself or for anyone else.
Believe it or not there was a time when photographs were captured on film, printed in a darkroom, and it took a fair amount of time, skill, and practice (not to mention talent) in order to create a decent image. Now everything is done in a flash, digitally, and it doesn’t much matter how much you know about photography, your camera, or anything else, other than the software you use to create your digital illustration. As a photographer that learned the old fashioned way you could say I was still a purist, so for me it’s more ‘real’ to create special effects in camera, with a lens, than it is to use software to fake it.
Over the past few months we heard more than a few people talk about installing the Mac operating system on a