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Macs Are Really Easy? Ha!
There is a myth. The myth goes “Windows is complicated. Macs are really easy – they just work.” Like most myths this may have started from an original truth, but is now a lie. I am it’s latest, but I … Continue reading
Vernal Greetings
To celebrate the Vernal Equinox and the unseasonably pleasant weather we’ve had in the UK for the last two weeks, I thought it would be a good idea to post a nice Spring picture. By coincidence I’ve been processing some … Continue reading
Mac OSX–A Third-Class OS?
Does Apple’s opposition to virtualisation create a technical ghetto? Continue reading
Tyranny of the Colour Blind
Musings on why Microsoft are abandoning colour as a dimension for information visualisation Continue reading
Ten Ways to Make Your iPad Work Effectively With Windows – Update
Microsoft have released an arguably belated but nonetheless very welcome version of OneNote optimised for the iPad and with very good synchronisation to the PC. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough that I’ve updated my guidance on how to … Continue reading
Ten Ways to Make Your iPad Work Effectively With Windows
If you’re one of those people who uses loads of Apple products, and is thinking of proposing Steve Jobs for canonisation, then you may be happy with how your iPad works, but if you’re trying to make it work effectively … Continue reading
I Thought They Were Supposed To Be Getting Smaller?
Musings on why my laptops are getting bigger and heavier, instead of smaller and lighter Continue reading
What Are The Chances Of That?
For the last couple of years, I’ve been working fairly regularly with a chap called Carl. The other day a group of us were chatting, and got to talking about cars we had owned. Among others, Carl had once owned … Continue reading
Not from My Cold, Dead Hand…
My regular correspondent Malachy Martin recently posed another of his “research” questions: What would work look like if you only had an iPad as your computing device? My first reactions focused on whether my iPad could replace my laptop. Then … Continue reading
Turning Points
A regular correspondent of mine just posed an interesting question: “The Web has significantly evolved over the past 15 years. What have been the major milestones in the web’s evolution either in business or technology?” That’s quite a big … Continue reading
…And Then Three Come Along All At Once
Reflections on an excellent Summer for live music Continue reading
Journey, Foreigner and Styx
Thoughts on what makes a good live music performance Continue reading
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