Archive for May, 2007
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Todays announcement from Microsoft of "Surface" just smacks of the original Mac-Windows competition from more than 20 years ago.
Apple pre-announced the Mac and then there was a hoopla of bluster from Microsoft about their new Windows platform. Which of course didn't ship for more than a year and was nowhere ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Wil Shipley writes a rumour-starter that the iMac is due to be EOL'ed this year. In the interests of getting this started, let's examine it.
When the Apple Product Matrix was young, it made sense to have an iMac. It fit - showing the product as a friendly consumer-oriented device:
Powerbook
PowerMac
iMac
iBook
Everything ...
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
Microsoft announced late on Thursday May 24 that it has cancelled the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) that was slated for this October.
I'm having fun thinking this is because Leopard was delayed until October and Microsoft would need a few months to replicate some of the features.
As the last two PDC ...
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
In an earlier post I whined about Skype and Orange.
Without fanfare, SkypeIn now seems to be working. It's still a little slow connecting first time and sometimes requires a second connection to get the link up but that's progress at least.
Now. Orange.
They didn't get back to me.
They sent me another ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Exploiting the negative is an interesting theory:
“If everyone tried following their bliss everyone would be trying to get to the same place at the same time. It’d be a fucking traffic jam. But since no one likes going into the negative there’s more room for opportunity – less competition, less ...
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
SkypeIn works....from local land lines. *sigh* It doesn't work from my mobile (Orange network). This is an improvement considering the problems I was having before but it's still a pain in the butt. Skype have STILL not gotten back to me on resolution from the original report (can you believe ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
It's a sobering video:
Children See, Children Do
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