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Friday 12th March 2010

Beware the wrath of @DaveWiner !

Dave Winer

Beware the wrath of Dave, poke fun at his netbook and he’ll just crassly assume you’re a spineless puppet of Apple folk because they’re naturally the only ones who are uninspired by flimsy designs. I resemble [sic] his remarks… for one thing not all Apple fans are boys ;).

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[Anime] Mugi can’t figure out the iPad

Monday 08th March 2010

Downgrading back to Mac OS X Leopard

The Application Finder can't be opened, error -10810

This could be the first time I’ve ever downgraded an Apple OS.

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Tuesday 02nd March 2010

A case study in why features != usability

I don’t know how I ended up at this review site, but I was less surprised by the fact the unit they were discussing was so shamelessly ripping off the iPod (right down to the headphones), but rather the reviewer actually liked it. Were they wearing those beer glasses Bart Simpson tried on?

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Friday 26th February 2010

Apple’s unfortunate environment backstep

Photo Copyright Apple Inc.

It seems Apple’s much publicised environmental focus which they’ve heavily advertised and proudly featured in their demonstration videos will be the furthest extent of their openness. From FastCompany.com:

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Sunday 14th February 2010

Office for Mac adopting the screen hogging ribbon?

Screenshot of the new Office 2011 for Mac

Hot off the heels (relatively speaking) of their ribbon interface-clad Office 2007 Microsoft’s Mac division has announced their next version of Office for Mac that will also include the ribbon interface. Problem is, both Microsoft and Apple already solved the problem of feature accessibility years ago with the tall toolbox and the ribbon is a giant step backwards, especially now with widescreens so prevalent.

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Saturday 13th February 2010

iPhoneUserNews is coming back

iPhoneUserNews.com

Some good news from the team we thought had disappeared off the face of the Earth. Good thing I would never let any of my own projects end up like this.

After a mysterious unexplained hiatus, we’re coming back. iPhone User News .com will be rebooting around the middle of next week. We’re coming back with daily dollops of news about Apple’s humble portable telephone.

We’ll also be launching a sister site all about that pad thing, in the near future.

Thanks for visiting.

Neal at iPhone User News.

Wednesday 10th February 2010

Aperture 3 signalling end of 32-bit support?

Apple Aperture 3

Having just spoken about photography, a few hours ago Apple released Aperture 3. One thing of note is the white box instead of black, shock of horrors! Of note for my own personal circumstances was the phrasing of the system requirements:

Aperture 3, which runs as a 64-bit application on Intel Core 2 Duo Macs running Mac OS X Snow Leopard [...]

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Sunday 31st January 2010

Adobe attacks… with figures!

Apple with Flash, Google with Internet Explorer 6

Adobe has responded to the lack of Flash on the new iPad, that Apple tablet device thingy if you haven’t heard of it because you were teleported into the future or have been asleep for a few days.

[...] without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web.

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iPad without Flash is Google without IE6

Apple with Flash, Google with Internet Explorer 6

Of all the criticisms of the iPad that have been thrown around since it’s launch barely a few days ago, the loudest seems to be the lack of Flash support. I’m going to get into trouble with a lot of people for saying this, but I consider it a feature, and on par with Google ditching support for Internet Explorer 6 on some of their sites.

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