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Tag Archives: Apple
An Apple a day…
“You can’t polish a turd.” – Derived from a Persian proverb After much speculation it’s looking likely that Edinburgh is finally on the verge of getting an Apple Store. First mooted for Princess Street almost four years ago, rumours died … Continue reading
The iPad
I didn’t have quite the same reaction as Hitler but yes, I was disappointed. Living up to the amount of hype generated would have been nigh on impossible but I still think Apple have a case to answer to defend … Continue reading
Mo’ mobile
Unless you spend hardly any time online – in which case I’ll assume you won’t be reading this – then you’ll have heard that Apple will be announcing something at a special event tomorrow. The general excitement is based around … Continue reading
A new level of browsing
The Internet tubes today were mainly full of comments about two things: Gmail going down and Apple releasing a public beta of Safari 4. Had the Gmail outage coincided with Twitter going belly-up at the same time then I think … Continue reading
iPhone software 2.0
The new functionality that is included in the version 2.0 software release fixes a couple of the few things that annoyed me with the iPhone. I installed it last night after people with too much time on their hands found … Continue reading
To buy, or not to buy, that is the question
Is it really though? Those of you who know me well enough would probably be expecting me to rush out and buy the iPhone 3G as soon as I set foot back on British soil. There’s no denying that I’m … Continue reading
“Because Microsoft just aren’t worth it”
This was the best response I heard given yesterday to the question posed by one of the many bemused passers-by that looked at the queue forming for the opening of the first Apple Store in the southern hemisphere with a mixture … Continue reading
Bad manners
Recently there was some amount of ill feeling directed toward Apple after they started installing their Safari Internet browser with their iTunes software update. (I also just noticed that “up to date” is no longer hyphenated in OS X 10.5 … Continue reading
Emergent development
When the University of California at Irvine built their campus, they just planted grass. Then they waited a year and paved over where people had made paths in the grass. I first heard this in an interview with Larry Wall … Continue reading
There’s something in the air
That is, if you believe what you read on conference banners. It’s only a few hours to go until Steve Jobs kicks off the Macworld San Francisco (MWSF) conference with his keynote presentation and time feels like it is actually … Continue reading