Tag: Mac
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How to annoy people when you launch
Via Bernie and Robert Scoble I heard about Sharpcast. Sharpcast has one product, called Sharpcast Photos which does: Automatic backup, effortless sharing and anywhere-access for your photo collection. Your PC, the web and optionally your mobile phone working as one. It sounded like a cool idea until I saw the requirements to get it to…
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Apple takes the pi** out of Vista' incessant security warnings!
UPDATE: This video has been taken down from YouTube, There is a version of it on the Mac site here (.mov) and there are two similar ads on this page on the Apple site.
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More lies from Bill Gates about Vista
I see Bill Gates has been caught lying about Vista again. Once could have been a slip but when it starts to happen again and again, you have to start to think it is intentional. What do you think, is he really that clueless? Or is he deliberately spreading FUD
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Venice Project beta doesn't include Macs
Along with the rest of the world, it seems, I received my invite to try out the beta of the Venice Project. This is an IPTV project set up by Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (so straight away you have to start taking it seriously). Mike Arrington has written it up…
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Keychain saves my life (and my passwords)!
Keychain is a fabulous application which comes as standard on every Mac. It is the program which stores all your passwords for you. For me, it has proven to be a lifesaver time and time again. I have more passwords for more sites than I have hairs on my head (not that that’d be very…
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Last night's blogger's dinner
Last night’s blogger’s dinner was a great success – thanks to Pat for organising (and paying for) it. Shel Israel and Rick Segal were the guests of honour and both had lots of interesting info to impart. Rick talked up MusicIP – I missed the start of the conversation but I assume MusicIP is a…
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Microsoft hobbles Windows Vista
Ed Bott has aa article on ZDNet comparing the licencing terms of Windows XP and the forthcoming retail version of Windows Vista (Microsoft’s upcoming successor for XP). It turns out that whereas with Windows XP you could re-install the OS on as many different machines as you wished (as long as it was deleted off…