Smartphones are selling like hotcakes and in a couple of years time from now virtually all mobile phones will be smartphones at least throughout the developed world. It seems odd, then, that the various smartphones and Mac OS X don’t seem to get along very well with each other. When it comes to synchronising [...]
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When I said “as a corporate customer of Microsoft products, the probability of me installing Windows 7 on a physical machine any time soon is infinitesimally small” less than a week ago, I spoke too soon. That’s because, err, I am now running Windows 7 on my ThinkPad T61 laptop at work. This is [...]
Is the time for biscuit, I mean, time for a new shiny netbook finally upon us?
September and October will be new operating systems galore with the debut of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. It seems mass shrink-wrapping has already begun on all three of them. I am [...]
As with many other jobs, implementing or maintaining SharePoint requires an exceptional degree of attention to detail because, well, stuff happens. If an error occurs or a mistake is made inside a testing or staging environment before things go to production, it’s a good lesson. If that lesson is captured, documented, and learned, it becomes [...]
I enjoy watching Apple’s Get-a-Mac ads. This particular clip titled “Legal Copy” is my latest favourite. Too bad they don’t release one every week. I enjoy watching those ads not only because they are funny, witty, and creative, but because they all state the fact in amazingly funny, witty, creative ways. Factuality and creativity do [...]
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?
(Rodney King on television pleading for peace, 1 May, 1992)
Windows versus Mac OS X. Microsoft versus Apple. The Great Tech Divide is still prevalent in 2009 and the latest Microsoft ad campaign has once again ignited the fiery debate among geeks. But the [...]
Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP, also known as LAMP, is probably the most cost-effective way of running big and small Internet applications, including this blog. I once mentioned I also have a “staging” blog, an exact replica of the live one, configured on my MacBook. Now that’s MAMP, i.e. Mac OS X instead [...]
Should you, I, or the average consumer buy a new computer in 2009? I’d say hold off on it. That is not just because of the rising prices of imported goods, particularly electronics; there are seismic shifts taking place in the world of computer hardware manufacturers and software developers right now. At the centre of [...]
I had been waiting months for this:
I finally made time to try out the public beta (build 7000) of Windows 7 that I obtained through a source at work a few weeks back. It’s good till the end of July 2009. But indications are that this will be a short-lived test-drive; the Release Candidate of [...]
Another interesting article by The Guardian:
Historians face a “black hole” of lost material unless urgent action is taken to preserve websites and other digital records, the head of the British Library has warned.
Just as families store digital photos on computers which might never be passed on to their descendants, so Britain’s cultural heritage is at [...]