Tag Archives: Mac

The future of Siri

Oh yes: Siri could be the interface to future products, like tiny little Nano-sized devices, or home entertainment systems. I think the people thinking of putting Siri on to the Mac, Apple TV or iPad aren’t thinking big enough. Imagine … Continue reading

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Why the spec sheet method of buying a computer is dead

Poor Charles Arthur. Charles wrote a relatively simple post asking the question of why the Mac has proved to be so successful lately, out-performing the overall computer market and growing its market share. And in response, he got a 500+ … Continue reading

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Magic Mac-ball says: No way!

I try not to get into the predictions game (partly because I’m too-often wrong) but I’m willing to bet that this little snippet from LOOPrumors is completely wrong: “LOOPRumors received a tidbit of information today suggesting Apple is planning to … Continue reading

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Sync your Mac with an LG phone with FoneSync

Shocking as this might sound, not everyone wants an iPhone. And if you have a phone from LG, you might want to check out FoneSync, a new application from Novamedia which lets you sync contacts and calendar information from your … Continue reading

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The One Million Application Store

The iPhone App Store is now over the 90,000 mark, and marching inexorably towards 100,000. Responding to my and Scoble’s posts on the App Store numbers, John highlights the fact that I think I alluded to in my post: That … Continue reading

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NetNewsWire is a long way from a legacy app

Louis Gray thinks standalone feed readers are dead, including NetNewsWire “Yes, NetNewsWire is still around, and now points to Google Reader, but it’s pretty much a legacy app at this point. (In my opinion, of course) I humbly disagree. In … Continue reading

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Is Apple recession proof? The answer is “no”, but…

Jason O'Grady has a good post summing up the theory (first espoused by American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu) that Apple is "recession proof". In fact, I think there's good reason to think that the opposite it true, but also … Continue reading

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Google Gears for Safari beta release

It’s been a long time coming, and it still looks very much a beta, but at last those of us who use Safari have our own version of Google Gears.

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How to get the full version of Office 2008 for Mac cheap

Microsoft produces a very nice, handy student/teacher edition of Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac at a bargain price. There’s only one thing: it doesn’t include the full version of Entourage. Instead, the version which it ships in the Home/Student … Continue reading

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Try out RememberTheMilk – coming (soon!) to iPhone

Since getting the new iPhone, I’ve been using OmniFocus for to manage all the things that I have to do. But the only downside with OmniFocus is that it’s Mac only – so if you’re using Windows or Linux you’re … Continue reading

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