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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

The NUJ really doesn’t get modern journalism

November 6, 2007

Conrad Quilty-Harper is a writer for Engadget, which, according to Technorati, was the most-linked to site on the internet over the past six months. He posts several stories a day, and works under contract to AOL, which is itself one of the biggest companies around. Despite this, Conrad has been turned down for membership of [...]

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Why Facebook ads make me throw up a bit, just a little, into the back of my throat

November 6, 2007

“Fan-sumer“? Puh-lease!

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From the archives: FUD, nonsense and Rob Enderle

November 6, 2007

Technovia: FUD, nonsense and Rob Enderle: “Why does this matter? First, it means that another release of OS X – Leopard, probably to be known as 10.5 – will hit the shelves a little before Vista does, allowing Apple to regain the ground that it otherwise might have lost. But more importantly, it means that [...]

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links for 2007-11-06

November 6, 2007

iTunes 7.5 released with international iPhone support, new iPod game Apple has released iTunes 7.5 and QuickTime 7.3 this afternoon, which bring support for activating the iPhone anywhere it’s available, a new iPod game, and other bug fixes.

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Could Apple make a tablet PC which anyone would want to buy?

November 6, 2007

Based on a source in Asus, Crave certainly thinks so: "All this begs the question: Can Apple turn the Tablet PC into a success when previous attempts have failed? The short answer is ‘yes’. Any company that can make a mobile phone with no buttons, no picture messaging, slow Web access and no video capture [...]

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What’s wrong with the N95?

November 6, 2007

Russell Beattie sums up what’s wrong with the N95: The summary for the entire device can be summed up like this: "Holy crap! Look at all this cool ass stuff N95 does. It’s amazing! But look how well Nokia has completely obscured or hidden all that functionality. It’s insane!" The thing that Apple has done [...]

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Infinite life or infinite death?

November 6, 2007

Harry Erwin talking about the difference between secular and religious views, in View From England: Perhaps that might be the case, but the underlying issue is something left unsaid–there is a basic conflict between the secular state and the religious perspective about the value of human life. Religion believes that the value of an individual [...]

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Apple: The tao of removing features

November 6, 2007

Dave Winer: I’m not happy with Leopard (Scripting News). The user interface is quirky. The new networking interface is a big step backward. The firewall moved and lost features! That’s simply never done, you don’t charge customers to remove features, esp security features. I’m not actually sure what features Apple has removed from the firewall [...]

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Apple now allows Mac virtualisation

November 6, 2007

Sharp-eyed license readers have found that Leopard Server now allows you to run multiple copies on the same Apple machine via virtualisation. Why is this important? Because virtualisation has been shown to significantly improve certain areas of server performance, reduce costs, and have security benefits. The fact that Leopard can be virtualised will give hardware [...]

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Everything you need to know about the Leopard firewall

November 6, 2007

TidBITS Safe Computing: Leopard Firewall Takes One Step Forward, Three Steps Back. Rich Mogul writing for TidBits explains why the new Firewall in Leopard isn’t as good as the old one, even though it adds application-level support for control over outgoing traffic. This is also a good explanation of why keeping the source of a [...]

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