So I feel a little vindicated by this article on ZDNet telling about a recent study that found Apple Users are not buying the bigger handsets. People on average just don’t have hands that big, to me the normal 6 and 6s are too big and I frequently have to do that double tap thing […]
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Centre of the world (when you are 14)
When I was a kid I spent as much time as I could (pocket money permitting) in the arcades and shops of central London. There were a select few arcades where the latest machines were installed and where, for what seemed a kings ransom, we could put our grubby hands on the latest cutting edge technology. Such […]
Easily forgotten
As a long time Mac user (some 25+ years now) it is sometimes easy to forget just what a charmed existence we have. Recently we purchased a new machine for the household, a wintel laptop made by Hewlett Packard who for marketing reasons I am sure, chose to name the device an “Envy”. On paper […]
iPhone4S tariff bizarre’ness from O2
Being an O2 iPhone customer I was eager to see what their tariff prices are for the new iPhone4GS The first thing I noticed is that they are offiering a 12 Month contract – obviously ready for the upgrade debacle when the iPhone5 is launched. Secondly they are listing the data as a bolt-on which […]
Spammed? – me too. Bas^%*ds.
Once again my personal domain has been used by spammers to send an untold number of emails to poor unsuspecting individuals around the globe and no doubt the same domain will be blocked by spam filters because of it. I have just opened my mailbox to find 47 bounced messages with replys from all manner […]
Seeking alternatives – a growing trend among Final Cut users
The FCPX bitching is still going on and an interesting thing is happening, people are thinking about leaving their Macs behind. A number of commentors from around the production sites are saying that the only reason they are using Macs is to get FCP. These are the type of people who use computers as a […]
CoreData at the heart of FCPX
From what I am reading an Apple Technology called CoreData is at the heart of the new Final Cut Pro X software. CoreData is a bit like a monolithic database that stores all the metadata for all your FCPX projects, instead of the data being stored in a project file as Final Cut Pro did. […]
All a matter of scale
I sent my buddy Ian (probably the only reader of this blog – Hi mate) an article from Daring Fireball: Demoted Monday, 6 June 2011 Today’s was a jam-packed keynote. Apple announced a lot of news; there is much to talk and think about. But the key line was when Steve Jobs, describing iCloud replacing […]
Thought for the day – why did M$ buy Skype
That’s a lot of money to buy an Internet phone company isn’t it? Well, yes really, until you think a little differently and know a bit about how Skype works. Skype is actually a distributed computing platform, the data that makes up your telephone and video calls is not gateway through a massive datacenter somewhere […]
SpotifApple?
Here’s a prediction that probably will fall flat, but I have been looking at Spotify recently – good but could be so much better. Apple need to buy Spotify and incorporate it into iTunes – 10 million tracks at random chosen by Apple Genius. What more could you want. As I said, probably barking up […]