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Thanks Apple & Microsoft groupies for the weekend laughs

March 30, 2009

I’ve been sitting on the sidelines of this recent flare-up of exuberant reaction to Microsoft’s recent “I’m a PC” ad campaign that saw a supposed student by the name of Lauren going shopping for a laptop. In the fallout following the campaign’s release to the web I have had more laughs than you can [...]

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An observation of Web 2.0, Apple and Openness

February 2, 2009

What two things seem to go together like Mutt & Jeff when it comes to the early adopter and developer crowds as we move further and further into our social media world?
Yes, you guessed it – Apple products and a professed – sometimes unexplainable – fervour for openness and transparency. After all it is [...]

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His Jobness to relinquish Apple for 6 months

January 14, 2009

You can say what you want about Steve Jobs but the one thing you definitely can’t say is that he is stupid man. While he may have built a solid team around him in the latter years in the beginning after his return to Apple he helped bring the company from the precipice of failure [...]

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iTunes replaces one evil with another

January 14, 2009

Remember not to long ago all the hubbaloo over the fact that iTunes was removing some of the DRM restrictions on songs and that the whole library would be DRM free by spring?
Everyone was whopping it up saying that Apple had finally seen the light and the customer had won one of the bigger [...]

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Boy does Apple know how to give it to the fan boys

January 13, 2009

There was a bit of an uproar after the recent MacWorld when Apple announced that the new MacBook Pro’s would ship with a battery pack that users wouldn’t be able to replace themselves. No - the battery will have to be replaced by qualified Apple Geniuses at your local Apple store. As insulting as that [...]

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A guilty secret - I want a Zune

November 18, 2008

I know everyone and their brother are iPod fanatics and to them nothing can beat out this epitome of form [...]

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And here I thought the USB stuff was stupid

November 14, 2008

For some time now idiotic USB gadgets have been all the rage and fodder for more than one post in the tech blogoshere. Since the iPhone and now the gPhone the USB silliness could find itself thrown from the throne of stupid ideas for wasting good technology.
With the iPhone inanity had to have started with [...]

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A WebKit powered Internet Explorer makes sense

November 7, 2008

It doesn’t matter what web developer you talk to but if you want to keep your head you are best not to mention Internet Explorer (IE) - especially v6.0.

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The Apple Stock Drop And The Idiot That Caused It

October 5, 2008

When I first read the other day that it was some doofus on CNN’s iReporter site that was being pegged as the one responsible

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WTF Is Wrong With Apple?

September 25, 2008

I know that Steve Ballmer gets a lot of flack for his “Developer, developer, developer” ranting and more than one article has been written about the horrors of coding against the Win32 API but for all that the one thing Microsoft has done is promote the developer. Whether it be giving away Express versions of the developer tools to publishing top notch developer books under its Microsoft Press division the company has done a decent job of supporting Windows developers.

On the flip side of the developer world we have the devoted Apple developers creating cool stuff for the Mac and now the iPhone - or at least trying to because Apple appears to being doing everything it can to make that an extremely difficult proposition.

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