Despite its currently dominant position in the market, Adobe Flash is not the most universally accessible platform when it comes to the delivery of interactive content. Ceteris paribus, I’d say Adobe’s share in the world of rich internet applications will draw a downward curve over the coming months and years. The first reason is competition: [...]
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Unlike Carly Palmer, I couldn’t finish the 509-page book in 2 hours and 34 minutes. Having finished it, however, I don’t think it’s possible to say what the Lost Symbol, after all, exactly was – because, well, it’s much more than just a symbol that had been lost. It’s actually a phrase, an idea, a [...]
My first ten days with the new cat has been a bumpy ride with a few scratches here and there along the way. I must say I kind of saw it coming when I was greeted by the grumpy face of the feline on the packaging. This, incidentally, draws a stark contrast with the “happy” [...]
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 [...]
Recently, I spent some late night hours reviving my first Mac, a 12-inch iBook G4 manufactured in the 22nd week of 2004, which had been quietly collecting dust for tens of months. Bringing a five year-old laptop back to life is kind of like restoring a classic car, though I’m no automobile enthusiast. The 1.07GHz [...]
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 [...]
Wrong. Right. Wrong. Right. There are reasons why I would never buy certain laptops with my own money – even if the economy is good and the local currency is exceptionally strong against the greenback. For people who:
type with their ten fingers;
use the keyboard to copy, cut, paste, save, select all, undo, find, and replace;
prefer [...]
To celebrate the BAFTA/Oscar season, I thought I’d do something remotely related on a personal scale: to award top four shows on TV with a lost cause. I wanted to do Top 5, which feels like a nice odd number, but couldn’t quite think of the fifth one. Anyway, here’s the ranking:
Number 4 – “Top [...]
It’s been almost 28 weeks since I started this blog and it’s now the end of the year – and it looks like an opportune time to pick the Movie of the Year, too. Well, it’s not just because of the timing that I picked 28 Weeks Later; in fact, timing’s a bit off considering [...]