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Why the Apple Tablet will be the ‘Computer for the rest of us’

by Tom on 26. Jan, 2010 in Apple

Amongst all of the speculation about the rumoured forthcoming ‘Apple Tablet’ computer, I came across an excellent article entitled Why The Tablet Will Finally Be Steve Jobs’ “Computer For the Rest of Us” on Cult of Mac. It sums up what was important about the iPhone – hiding the complexity of the workings of the [...]

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For Apple users, a bit of fun from The Simpsons

by Tom on 01. Dec, 2008 in Apple, humour

“Flay him with your earbuds!” This rather sharp parody of Apple hardware, gadget lust, ‘worship’ of Steve Jobs, and Apple fanboy behaviour, is truly brilliant!

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iMovie ’08 on a 1.8GHz single processor G5

by Tom on 03. Sep, 2007 in Apple, Software

According to the system requirements for Apple’s newest incarnation of iLife (iLife ’08), iMovie ’08 shouldn’t work on my machine (an ‘original’ 2003 1.8GHz SP G5 with 1GB RAM). The installer runs a system check before it installs iLife (as it did on my G4 laptop) to see if your system meets the minimum requirements [...]

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iPod woes

by Tom on 01. Sep, 2007 in Apple, iPod

Recently, my 2 year old 4G iPod broke. I was listening to a podcast whilst walking to work when the audio froze. I took it out of my pocket and found that everything had frozen – the UI as well as playback. I tried to reset it on the move, but nothing could unfreeze it. [...]

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Testing Ecto 3 alpha

by Tom on 14. Aug, 2007 in Apple, Software, blogging

Way back in the dim and distant past, before my other blog, Past Thinking, began to focus solely upon heritage matters, I reviewed Ecto 2. Now, 2 years later, I’m writing this with the alpha version of Ecto 3. This isn’t a full review – this is really just a test drive of the alpha [...]

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Cleaning up Word HTML

by Tom on 02. Aug, 2007 in Apple, Web Stuff

Today, whilst building a new data downloads section for the Archaeology at Heathrow T5 website, I had to convert a load of Word documents full of tables and subheadings into beautiful xHTML Strict for pages in a WordPress environment. Normally, I’d open the files in Word 2004 (on a Mac), save them as HTML, then [...]

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Fed up with iPhone news and hype?

by Tom on 12. Jul, 2007 in Apple

The question has to be asked of the iPhone – will it blend? Combine an iPhone and an extremely efficient blender…

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Apple, EMI, and DRM

by Tom on 02. Apr, 2007 in Apple, Music

Eric Nicoli (CEO, EMI Group) and Steve Jobs (CEO, Apple Inc) took to the stage for a press conference in London today. There has been much speculation about what would be announced. Some hedged their bets on an announcement that the Beatles would be available via iTunes, while others thought that it would be an [...]

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Apple’s iPhone will be a closed platform?

by Tom on 12. Jan, 2007 in Apple

I’ve been a Mac user for over 3 years now, and like most Mac users, I was excited when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at Macworld San Francisco on Tuesday. Apart from the device looking utterly amazing in every way, it was revealed that it actually runs a version of OSX. Wow. Or so I [...]

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