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Apple’s App Store meets 1984

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

In 1948 just after World War II George Orwell wrote a novel called 1984 about how Britain might have looked if a communism regime had come in to power. An excellent read if you haven’t read it already.
In 1984 Apple made a commercial:

Continuing their promotional campaign Apple in 1997 started to use the slogan: “Think [...]

iPhone and HTML5 Experimentations

Monday, September 21st, 2009

After my trusty mobile phone which I have had for the last 4 years gave up the go on me I decided to replace it with a shiny iPhone.
For the most part its been a very good experience, however there where a few things that my old phone did slightly better like running multiple applications [...]

Boxee brings iPlayer to Apple TV

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Update 8/1/09: Boxee now supports BBC iPlayer out of the box!

One thing I have been waiting for on the Apple TV is access to the BBC’s iPlayer. I recently discovered Boxee which is an open-source media centre for Mac, Windows and Apple TV based on a fork of XBMC. It has a very nice and easy [...]

Online Backup

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Backing up data is normally something most people usually neglect (unless your on a Mac), and even if you do backup what happens if you get your stuff stolen or lost by hard drive failure or worst case scenario fire?
Enter the cloud, online backup is nothing new the only difference these days is you normally [...]

Firefox 3 Betas

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

I have been along time Firefox user (even since the early days when it was called Firebird) swearing by it and setting it as my families default browser! The Firefox 3 beta’s have been around for some months now and I have been using the beta since January, overall its been very stable and allot [...]

iTunes External Drive Detection

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

If your like me and have far too much music you will have probably transferred it all to an external hard drive, which is great as it frees up some space on your computer, but not so great if you forget to turn it on and you start up iTunes.
iTunes has the habit of marking [...]