It was with great excitement that me and a colleague watched Steve Jobs’ iPhone 4 key-note speech. Multi-tasking in particular is a feature that adds a great deal of extra functionality to the phone. The key-note was fantastic, and 45 minutes in, we were left chuffed to bits that we’d bought the right phone, and [...]
Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category
Steve Jobs, marketing genius, or complete and utter b******?
Posted: 5th May 2010 by Ben Fallaize in Apple, Rants and RamblesComments Off
Why mess with convention?
Posted: 3rd November 2009 by Ben Fallaize in Apple, Rants and RamblesTags: featured
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A rant of a different kind tonight…
Did you know, the first computer mouse was invented in 1964? Sure, it wasn’t anything like what we use today, but the basic concept was there. For some time now, mice have had 1 or 2 buttons. Later on came the scroll wheel. Now, with optical technology, wireless, and the addition of a few more buttons, the mouse is a technical marvel compared to the old ball mice of the 90′s.
A fantastic mac/windows article
Posted: 29th September 2009 by Ben Fallaize in Apple, Rants and Rambles, WindowsAn article by Charlie Brooker, of the Guardian. This bloke’s sense of humour appeals to me!
Apple Snow Leopard
Posted: 30th August 2009 by Ben Fallaize in Apple, WindowsTags: featured, photoshop, snow leopard, Windows
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Finally, the refinement the Mac world has been waiting for… First impressions are, it is faster, but it’s not the huge gap I was expecting. Apple have re-written the entire operating system to run natively in 64 bit. Good news since Apple have been pushing 64bit Core 2 Duo processors out for a few years [...]
Windows vs OSX
Posted: 9th June 2009 by Ben Fallaize in Apple, WindowsTags: bootcamp, imac, monkey island, video capture, vista, Windows
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I’m posting this from the usual place, in front of my stunning iMac. However, there is one major difference. Behind this website is firefox, nothing unusual there, but behind that is a Windows desktop, and not just any version of Windows, it’s Vista. Previous readers will have read my opinion of Vista and Microsoft in [...]
iMac – 5 months on
Posted: 31st January 2009 by Ben Fallaize in Apple, Rants and RamblesTags: Apple, imac, iPhone, microsoft, windows 7
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I’ve been using my iMac for 5 months now and I can honestly say, I am completely converted to the simpler way of computing. Never have I had any trouble doing whatever I need to do, and it’s been perfectly reliable. So much so, that i recently swapped my Windows mobile HTC mobile phone, to [...]
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Well, the day has finally come. I bought my new iMac 20″ yesterday. First impressions? Well connecting my network hard drive and copying my stuff over went very easily. The most impressive thing I’ve found so far is that copying my entire photo collection (18GB) over to the mac’s hard drive was relatively painless. In [...]
Making the transition…
Posted: 25th August 2008 by Ben Fallaize in AppleTags: Apple, imac, vista, Windows
It’s something I’ve always been against, but I’m finally about to make the move to Apple. I’ve been comparing it to ‘getting old’ in the computer world. Gone is my desire to play games on the PC, I just want a computer to do what I need it to, without any issues. I think this [...]