Category: apple

  • Get off your high horse Ed!

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    There was a big bruhaha on the intertubes over the weekend when Apple ran its software update on Windows and offered the Safari 3.1 browser download as the default selected option. Now I am not for a second condoning this kind of behaviour. I believe opt-in is the only way to do optional updates, especially…

  • Is the iPod Touch the ultimate Internet tablet?

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    I recorded a video on Seesmic yesterday on why I think the iPod Touch is a spectacular Internet Tablet. It has an amazing screen, great UI, and tiny form factor. Seesmic now includes the ability to embed videos you record there, so rather than go over it again I thought I’d embed the video here.…

  • Apple releases 10.5.1 update to Leopard

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    Apple released an update to OS X 10.5 (Leopard) today. The standalone update is 110mb but when I downloaded it this morning through Software Update it was a 38mb download for my machine. According to the Apple info page on the update, it: includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security…

  • iPod Touch – a gateway drug?

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    Pilar gave me an iPod Touch for my birthday the other day and, wow I love it! As you can see, it looks fantastic. The interface is unbelievably slick and surprisingly responsive. Using Nokia smart phones means I have become used to devices this size being slow but there is absolutely no lag on the…

  • OS X Leopard hacked to run on PCs

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    With Apple’s move to Intel chips for its Macs, the last significant difference in the hardware architecture between Macs and PCs disappeared. This meant that Apple’s much vaunted OS X operating system is designed to work on PC hardware. Leopard, Apple’s latest version of OS X was released on Friday 26th last and in just…

  • Microsoft needs a new strategy for its Windows platform

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    I have Vista installed on this laptop. I haven’t booted up Vista in weeks. Why? Because I installed Ubuntu on another partition and it is so much faster, and more secure (since Microsoft instructed me to remove Norton and then failed to get OneCare to work on this laptop). Many others are eschewing Vista, not…

  • Is Mac OS X Leopard's Mail App Junk?

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    Om Malik is taking a poll on his site today about the new features in OS X Leopard. He is asking readers to say which of the new features will compel them to move to Leopard. Om’s own choice is Apple’s Mail app. Personally I used Mail for years and loved it but I had…

  • Crashing Safari?

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    I have had isolated reports that since upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.3 and the theme to K2 RC2, this blog crashes the Safari browser. I’m running Safari version 3.03 on my Mac and it doesn’t crash but I’m told version 2.04 does crash. I have tried turning off some of the sidebar widgets but…