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Thursday, 26 May 2005

Eye Of The Tiger

Having become something of an Apple convert, I decided it was high-time I made a pilgrimage to the Apple store in London, so last weekend that's what I did. It was also a good excuse to see Star Wars Episode III on the digital screen in Leicester Square, but this is yet-another-OS X-Tiger-review, not yet-another-Revenge-of-the-Sith-review!

Friday, 18 March 2005

Powertoy

I'm writing this on my new personal computer. It's a lot more personal then my old one, which I still have. Some would say that it's more personable too. I've bought myself an Apple PowerBook G4 12-inch and it's just astonishing.

Saturday, 01 January 2005

Hello Goodbye

Hello 2005, goodbye Microsoft. Don't worry, I haven't taken leave of my senses and ditched Windows for Linux at home—it's a fine server OS but I don't want it on my desktop. What I have done is finally ditch Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in favour of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird.

Thursday, 23 December 2004

Living With The iPod

I've now had my iPod for three months and am therefore able to offer some further thoughts on the pros and cons of iPod ownership. I've bought a couple of accessories, these being the Apple carrying case with belt clip and an iPod Dock.

Wednesday, 01 December 2004

Six Degrees Of Separation

I try to avoid writing about things that I've stumbled across whilst browsing—preferring instead to concentrate on creating my own content—but via a six degrees of separation-like process, I've come across something so remarkable that I just have to tell you about it.

Saturday, 23 October 2004

Golden Google

Google are golden at the moment. Their search engine has been number one for as long as anyone can remember, they've just successfully gone public and now they're churning out innovative and useful software at a rate of knots.

Saturday, 25 September 2004

A Bite Of Apple

I didn't seriously consider anything else for a minute. Sure, I'd read comparative reviews and there are devices out there that offer more features for less money, but they're just not the same. They don't automatically switch on when you plug the headphones in, or gradually fade the backlight off. You can't personalise them. They don't come in packaging that has been as fastidiously designed as the device itself. They're just not “Designed by Apple in California”.

Saturday, 21 August 2004

Child's Play

I recently had some software recommended to me by a six year old. Not directly, but via her Daddy, who casually mentioned to me this amazing software that his daughter was having a lot of fun with.

Saturday, 28 February 2004

Doing It With Style

I'm working on prototypes at the moment of the user interface for the J2EE application we're developing at work. As it's going to be a browser-based interface, I decided it was high time I learned more about Cascading Style Sheets.

Sunday, 12 October 2003

iPAQ Pocket PC h1910 Reviewed

This will be a review of two halves. First I'll tell you about the hardware and then I'll discuss the software. I'd been considering buying a PDA for a while and decided to buy the Hewlett Packard iPAQ Pocket PC h1910 (to give it its full title!) after playing with one in a shop at Stansted Airport whilst waiting to fly to Sardinia.

Sunday, 14 September 2003

Happy Birthday Google!

Google celebrated its fifth birthday a few days ago. Google is the World Wide Web's killer application, just as the World Wide Web is the Internet's killer app.