Category: Mac

  • AAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhpple!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Boy am I feeling sick today! I buy a lovely sparkling new 2.1ghz iMac G5 just last November and yesterday Steve Jobs announces a new iMac running on Intel dual core chips which is 2-3 times faster? AAAAAAAAAAAHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But all is not rosy for the new apple announcements – Apple announced Photocasting – this is…

  • Back in the seat again

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m back at the computer again and furiously making my way through the backlog of email which built up in my absence. If you sent me an email in the last week or two and I haven’t responded, please re-send it just to poke me! The break was great and Santa was very generous –…

  • Zoho Writer fails to impress!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I received an email this morning from an Aravind (a Market Analyst for the Zoho range of products & services apparently). Aravind asked me to test the Beta of Zoho Writer, an online word processor. I tried it out and wasn’t too impressed! I have tried and written about online word processors previously and both…

  • Riya's discriminates financially against Mac users – cannot qualify for remuneration!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have written about Riya here several times recently and it seems that it will be a very cool application. I am one of the lucky ones selected to be an alpha tested of Riya but unfortunately that doesn’t do much for me because I am Mac based and the uploader for Riya is Windows…

  • Flock crashing on G5

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    Tom Raftery
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    I recently treated myself to an Apple iMac G5 – I needed a new machine bcause of the increasing amount of podcasts I have been doing and my PowerBook’s sound board blew (replacing the sound board on a PowerBook costs over €600). I was using Flock from time to time on the PowerBook (the PowerBook…

  • Video Skype finally rolled out – PC only!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Skype today launched their Skype 2.0 application, complete with video calling capabilities! I’m a little confused, though because although Skype refer to the application as Skype 2.0 in their press release, it is called Skype 1.4 on the Mac download page. Ok, just downloaded Skype 1.4 Beta for Mac OS X and I can’t find…

  • Google Analytics graphs on a Mac

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    Tom Raftery
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    Google announced it was opening Google Analytics – a web stats program, for all to use free last week. Since it was launched Google Analytics has had problems – mostly related to the unprecedented demand for its use (unprecedented by Google, at any rate). One persistent issue, unrelated to popularity is that the Google Analytics…

  • Intel based Macs to run multiple OSs

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see where Apple has applied for a patent that allows the computer maker to protect the installation of Mac OS X so that it can only be used on Apple produced hardware. No real surprise there. However, the patent also describes a method whereby Apple hardware could be used to run other Operating Systems:…