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Apple Design Tribute

Apple Design Tribute...

I found this while reading up on the forthcoming Apple iPad. Fantastic representation of the products that have changed computing and technology (and especially the interaction of humans and advanced technologies) in a wonderful short video. San Francisco 3D design and visualization studio Transparent House has created a visualization entitled “Anatomy of Apple Design” as a tribute 34 years of Apple design,...
Windows Phone 7 – Shite!

Windows Phone 7 – Shite!...

Microsoft today announced their flagship in their latest armada to attach Apple and the iPhone and iPod centric world of music and communication. In what can only be described as the most awkwardly presented tetchy video ever released by a company announcing a new product, the Redmond WA giant posted a 22 minute long saga on their Microsoft Developer Network site today heralding the arrival of the Windows 7 Phone Series...
iPad Impressions

iPad Impressions...

Having just finished watching Steve Jobs’ keynote at the Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco on Wednesday on the Podcast streamed to my Apple TV while texting a friend on my iPhone in front of my MacBook displaying the latest iPad news connected to my Mac Mini downloading the latest Apps for my iPhone using Apple Screen Sharing, I think it’s safe to say I already play well with the “eco-system”...
Wordpress 2.0 for iPhone

Wordpress 2.0 for iPhone...

A massive improvement on it’s predecessor, Wordpress for iPhone 2.0 is a fast, functional and, more importantly, stable application for managing blogsites. I’ve used a few blog apps before but this one seems to be a good tool for those who use or run a Wordpress-powered blog. Features include comment management, post and page management, category creation and photo uploading also. Finally something to give...
Magic Mouse

Magic Mouse...

Apple’s recently released Magic Mouse, the successor to the popular and critically dividing Mighty Mouse is a great leap forward for the humble aid of Human Computer Interaction. On a trip to the USA recently, I stopped by the Apple Store in Palo Alto to purchase one. A new stock of about 20 were delivered during my 15 minutes in store and I grabbed the last one before I left the store. That’s not the whole...
A Year With iPhone

A Year With iPhone...

It’s been over a year since I got an iPhone. I moved to the platform from an old Blackberry 8300 Curve on the O2 network in Ireland when it was first launched in Ireland. The model is a 3G variety which heralded the dawn of the App Store, Apple’s crowning differentiation in the mobile smartphone market which is already crowded by defunct and useless devices from the Palm Treo to the Blackberry Storm (possibly...
Fishing from the Past

Fishing from the Past...

I’ve always been a fan of old computers. New ones too, but there’s something about old computers that I think we all see talent and ability in them all. The Baz Lurhmann song ‘Sunscreen’ has a nice line which I use to describe what I do sometimes with old machines: “… fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s...
Getting My Head Around Twitter

Getting My Head Around Twitter...

Yes, I am now on Twitter. I have been for a while – but I’m only starting to understand it. For those who’ve yet to figure it out, basically it’s like texting everyone in the world about what’s on your mind or what you’re doing or what you’re seeing. I say texting because each post (or ‘Tweet’) is only 140 characters long. The whole Twitter mania out there at the moment...
Why Google Chrome is Winning the Browser War

Why Google Chrome is Winning the Browser War...

Back in 1998, it would hardly have been conceivable that Larry Page and Sergey Brin ever thought their University project for a search engine on the World Wide Web would become one of the most affable brands in the world a mere 10 years later. Yet here we are, 11 years on, and Google is still the beating heart at the centre of the Internet. While others like Cisco dream of the recognition outside of nuts and bolts plumbing...
Product Review: WD MyBook World Edition 1TB NAS

Product Review: WD MyBook World Edition 1TB NAS...

Western Digital are a reasonably good name in the Hard Disk Drive business. They’ve cropped up in everything from Macs to Dells over the years and are considered along Seagate and Hitachi to be world leaders. And like all storage manufacturers over the past few years, WD have crept out of the closet with a whole host of external storage configurations to whet any appetite. Everything from Mac-dedicated products...