Posts Tagged: Mac

Walt Mossberg, the respected Wall Street Journal personal technology columnist, has a “review” of Apple’s latest version of iWork over on All Things Digital. I’m biased, but I feel he has missed the point in comparing iWork 08 with Microsoft Office for the Mac. iWork is quite clearly targeted at a different audience to the… Continue Reading ›

In case you hadn’t realised my previous post Just when I thought I was over you was an ode to the iPhone. Signals vs. Noise has a very interesting post in which they say that one of the iPhone adverts is “perfect advertising”. You know what they could be right. I was very definitely over… Continue Reading ›

Jonny Ive, Apple’s design overlord, has been awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours list. It’s fantastic to see the importance of design being recognised. Jonathan Ive is responsible (with a little input from Steve Jobs, I’m sure) for the iMac, Cube, iBook, Powerbook, Mini, and of course, the iPod range. Apple is renowned… Continue Reading ›

My 2005 Top 5 listing. Top 5 Events 1. The Birth of my son 2. Celebrating 15 years with and 5 years married to my beautiful wife 3. Spending hours bobbing around in the Med with my daughter Jasmine 4. Finally, buying a Mac 5. So many others… Top 5 Albums 1. Stars of CCTV… Continue Reading ›

I was beginning to wonder if I was just unlucky or fussy or both, as almost everything I buy these days seems to be faulty when I get it home or goes wrong quickly; I’m pleased to see that I am not alone. I mentioned this to a friend after his second Apple PowerBook power… Continue Reading ›

I’ve just upgraded the memory on my iMac from 512Mb to 1Gb, and it was amazingly easy. Just undo three screws that hold the back of the iMac on, remove the back, pop out the old memory stick, pop in the new sticks, replace the back, do up the three screws, cross your fingers, and… Continue Reading ›