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 [...]
With Christmas 2008 fast approaching I thought I’d add a new category of articles, Gift ideas for Xmas. And what better way to get started than with a gizmo that lets you shop faster. I came across this nifty invention on The Debut Effect. Just in case your finding Christmas shopping to physically demanding this [...]
With all the new Apple Stores that seem to be popping up all over the country I found this clip from The Simpsons particularly relevant and funny.
Microsoft seems to have the right idea when it comes to their new cloud service service – Live Mesh. I have to say that after trying the Live Mesh back up service I am very impressed. I opted for the free service which gives you 5GB of web space and once you’ve set it up [...]
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 [...]
