UC Irvine: Students with iPads do 23% better in national exams

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He added that the first class participating in the iMedEd Initiative scored an average of 23 percent higher on their national exams – taken at the end of the second year of medical school – than previous UC Irvine medical school classes, despite having similar incoming GPAs and MCAT scores.

That’s impressive.

Between Dropbox and iCloud

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As much as iCloud is the right idea still not realized, Dropbox is the wrong thing done brilliantly well. And at the end of the day, that still amounts to the wrong thing.

Interesting article by Rene Ritchie.

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Jeff Healey

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You all know SRV, but you may not know Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey. He was an incredible talent. He was blind and died far too soon. […]

Surface Pro selling out

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Paul Thurrott suggests that at least one Microsoft Store and other retailers are sold out of the Surface Pro 128GB model. He also said that Microsoft’s online store is sold out of that model.

This is great news for Microsoft, but I’ll wait until I hear exactly how many were sold before I congratulate the company too much.

BBEdit

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I’d like to thank Bare Bones Software for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week with BBEdit, an app that I’ve been using since 1994.

BBEdit 10.5 from Bare Bones Software — The leading professional HTML and text editor for the Mac just keeps getting better. Now with Retina support and many other improvements — download the demo and see for yourself!

Michael Dell’s open letter to customers

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Michael Dell:

I am confident we are making the right decisions to position Dell, our customers and employees for long-term success. There is much more we can accomplish together.

I can’t wait to see what he does.

Eulogy for BlackBerry

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Kevin Roose on his using his BlackBerry Z10 review unit:

But then you died. After four days of trying you out, for no reason at all, you simply refused to turn on. I removed and replaced your battery, tried to manually reset you, and even connected you to my laptop to see if I could revive you that way. But you stayed there, motionless and dark, the lifeblood drained from your mini-USB port.

Hey, what’s that noise? BlackBerry circling the drain.

Good design

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Rian van der Merwe:

[Dieter] Rams didn’t say that good design disappears completely. “As little design as possible” is not about making things invisible, it’s about “not burdening products with non-essentials”. It’s about making the right choices about what should be there, and what shouldn’t.

Great article.

Dishonest

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Ed Bott clearly did a lot of work on this article comparing the disk space of the Surface Pro and the MacBook Air, but I’ll tell you this — I’d put the MacBook Air up against the Surface Pro anytime, anywhere.

The U.S. Federal Reserve hacked

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The Fed statement on Thursday was its first explicit acknowledgment that it did not yet know the extent of the security breach. Cyber-security specialists say it takes time to thoroughly investigate a stealthy intrusion by skilled hackers.

Source links

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I agree with Harry Marks. “Source Links” at the bottom of articles are a way for a site to steal your content, but make themselves feel better about doing it.

Forward thinking CMS

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Ben Brooks has a big list of things he wants for his ideal platform. I would like many of those items, but I would most like a simple interface that only loads the code needed for what I’m using on a particular page on the site.

I would pay for a platform like that.

Amplified: Not your average mom

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Jim and Dan discuss Dell going private and how Apple has defined itself over the years with a brief appearance by Dan’s mom. Later they are joined by Greg Howard of 3 Monkeys Amps to talk about building custom amplifiers.

Sponsored by Hover (use code DANSENTME for 10% off), Shutterstock (use code DANSENTME2 for 30% off), and Squarespace (use code DANSENTME2 for 10% off).

Mediacase private video delivery, collaboration and storage

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Mediacase lets media professionals manage video projects online with friendly tools for delivery, collaboration, and storage. Say goodbye to hard drives and file transfers.

I spoke with the guy that started this last night. Sounds like a great idea.

No more BlackBerry in Japan

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BlackBerry will stop selling smartphones in Japan, partly because the company cannot justify the cost of modifying its operating system to accommodate the Japanese language.

Lucky Japanese.

Aggregation or traffic hijacking

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An argument between Digiday’s editor-in-chief Brian Morrissey and Business Insider founder Henry. I agree with Morrissey.