Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

Windows 7

Posted: 27th October 2009 by Ben Fallaize in Rants and Rambles, Windows
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Have you seen the new adverts for Windows 7 on the TV?  I’m a PC, and Windows 7 was my idea… Microsoft are obviously trying to push the fact that they have listened to their painstaked users and are now responding.  Having not seen 7 in the flesh yet, I can’t really comment on it, [...]

Internet Explorer 8

Posted: 24th October 2009 by Ben Fallaize in Rants and Rambles, Windows
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The source of most of my pain this week. Web standards, the only standard being set by this browser is “what not to do in the world of web browsers”. Websites that worked fine before IE8? Enter here…

A fantastic mac/windows article

Posted: 29th September 2009 by Ben Fallaize in Apple, Rants and Rambles, Windows

An article by Charlie Brooker, of the Guardian. This bloke’s sense of humour appeals to me!

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Apple Snow Leopard

Posted: 30th August 2009 by Ben Fallaize in Apple, 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, 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 [...]