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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
So, a reading from the Book of Jobs.
Yesterday in Cupertino, Apple unveiled the new iMac, as well as repackaged iWorks & iLife. And I must say, I'm not overly impressed.
Let's take them one at a time, shall we?
The New iMac
Personally, I'm not mad on it. I mean, what's with ...
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Sorry for the empty few days, started working full-time for Notschool, so had to look busy etc ;)
Anyway, as part of the job, I've been forced to do something I've been avoiding for a while now. Work with Vista. Ugh.
As a techie, I come across a lot of systems. In ...
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
So, Apple have offered a breadcrumb or two.
The report from El Reg quotes a Q3 financial report from Apple. It says that whilst "Major" EU markets will recieve the iPhone in Q4 2007, Asia and other EU markets will have to wait until 2008. Also, network announcements will have to ...
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
A nod to all the SysAdmins around the world, including of course my own SysAdmins at Blacknight.
Enjoy your day, and insist on time and a half for working through this special occasion!
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
Word from Vulture Towers, if you want to sell a product to the fairer sex, you have to do it in pink.
I just can't wait until this product comes to Ireland. Hundreds of trainee guards and other country folk twitching on the ground outside Copper Face Jacks after trying to ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
So, El Reg has returned it's iPhone. Not returns in a kind of "thanks for the demo model" kind of way. The Reg bought their model, Cupertino didn't seem to want to give them one.
The reviewer, Cade Metz, doesn't really hate one thing about the iPhone. Ok, he hated the ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
And so, another year rolls around, but this is a special year. Today is the 25th Birthday of the first Personal Computer Virus..
Having moved mostly to Mac over the last few months, I worry less about Viruses then I once did, but I'm not quite one of these fanatics who ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
A gander at Damien Mulley's blog shows that Firefox is gaining serious ground in the Irish browser market.
Turns out that almost 40% of Irish users now opt for Firefox over other programs. What's more impressive is the rate of growth, at a staggering 55%, the highest in Europe no less!
I ...
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Just watched the Microsoft "Media Briefing" from E3 2007 that's been uploaded to Xbox Live. It's pretty interesting to see what's planned for the next twelve months (in the US anyway).
While a number of interesting, albeit well-leaked, announcments have been mad, what really struck me was how cheesy the Microsoft ...
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