This week the mouse turned 40 and according to Wikipedia Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute invented the mouse in 1968. Interestingly while the Douglas Engelbart’s invention is the first mouse as we would know it, the first trackball had been invented in 1952 Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor workingfor the the [...]
Apple are now recommending Antivirus for the Mac according to a CNet report on November 21 Apple updated a technical note on its Support Web site that says: “Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process [...]
I have to admit I am a little disapointed in the new line up of Macs recently released by Apple. As regular readers will know, there were rumours all over the web about the new MacBook Pros, most of which turned out to be true. Apple did in fact re-design the Macbook pros to compliment [...]
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There have been a lot of rumours regarding the release of a new Macbook from Apple. The first rumours I heard were of an updated MacBook Pro with what looked like a multi-touch screen from an iPhone as the track pad.Check out that entry here. Apple has been handing out the usual cryptic invitations to [...]
The new Mac Book Pro is rumoured to have a design that compliments the industrial design of the Latest iMacs. This is the first time I’ve blogged about an Apple rumour. I’ve tried to refrain from using stories that couldn’t be backed up with reliable sources, but like sex, Apple rumours sell and I’m a [...]
I’ve been very busy so its taken me a while to get round to commenting on this. But I felt I had to blog about Microsoft’s latest advertising campaign. No, I’m not talking about those feature length, cryptic, ads staring Jerry Sienfield which they had to pull due to negative feed back although they claim [...]
I’ve just been taking a look at some of the videos springing up al over the et about the new G1 phone by T-Mobile. It’s the first handset on the market to feature the new Android OS, an open source operating system developed by Google. The G1 is supposed to be an “iPhone killer” and [...]
microsoft’s marketing department finaly realised that it’s latest ads weren’t getting the message across (thats assuming that there really was a message to begin with). The ads featuring Jerry Sienfield and Bill Gates were ridiculously cryptic, far too long (the last one was four minutes long!) and just plain boring. It should be interesting to [...]
I’ve been hearing a lot about this on a lot of tech news sites and blogs about Microsofts new marketing campaign which is suppose to be in response to Apple’s Mac v’s PC ads. Those ads make me laugh, unlike this ad. “Can you make computers taste like cake?” – WTF? Seriously, two questions spring [...]
