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The HP virus strikes again

Posted: 1st December 2009 by Ben Fallaize in Rants and Rambles
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I couldn’t help feel guilty the other day. A colleague casually mentioned to me that he had a HP laptop. Straight away, I asked him how old it was. “12 months” was the reply. I jokingly told him that he had 2 months left on it before it committed firey suicide…

Why mess with convention?

Posted: 3rd November 2009 by Ben Fallaize in Apple, Rants and Rambles
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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.

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…

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 [...]