One of the greatest, but least heralded benefits of high bandwidth Internet connections and cheap server storage space is that it has made backing up your data online a realistic proposition, even if that data runs to several gigabytes. Mozy from Berkely Data Systems, which is now available as a beta for the Mac, [...]

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With the exception, perhaps, of Jonathan Ive, no-one at Apple worked harder and contributed more to help Steve Jobs rebuild the company than Fred Anderson. It was Anderson, appointed CFO the year before Jobs’ return, who resolved the major liquidity crisis that Apple faced in the mid-nineties, when it was in debt to the tune [...]

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I’m a bit behind with my RSS feed skimming, so I’ve only just noticed that Merlin posted these great Mail tips for creating super-useful Smart Mailboxes.
Merlin, they rock
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I use Mac OS X Mail for all my email; work and home. Everything. I’m also very disorganised. The result is an Inbox with close-on 12000 messages in it, many with chunky attachments. This has a huge slowdown effect, not just on Mail itself, but on my Mac as a whole: each message is indexed [...]

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I had a chance to play with an Apple TV over the weekend and, much to my surprise, I was impressed. I have been as sceptical as anyone in the weeks since the Apple TV was announced. It just about makes sense in the US where there’s is a reasonable amount of movie and [...]

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Macworld UK has a story today headlined ‘Vodafone denies iPhone partner plan’. But reading the story fails to turn up any sort of denial. The only quote from a Vodafone representative calls the rumour ‘pure speculation.’ In my experience ‘pure speculation’ is the phrase companies use when they’re in negotiation but can’t comment publicly. ‘No, [...]

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Google has re-named its Froogle shopping search engine Google Product Search. The name Froogle was intended to be a pun on ‘frugal’ and was coined at a time when the company’s commercial ventures were in their infancy and the company was known for its intelligent wit as much as the accuracy of its search results. [...]

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The BBC’s director of Future Media and Technology, Ashley Highfield, has announced that the corporation’s iPlayer will be re-engineered to work with the Mac.
The iPlayer, the BBC’s tool for viewing content from its archive on-demand was originally designed to work with Microsoft’s Windows and Internet Explorer.
Highfield, speaking at an industry conference in Cannes, said Apple’s [...]

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Sometimes even the most ridiculous post can appear credible, if it’s written with enough conviction and published on a reputable site. So when I read this post on MacNN, it took a while before I realised quite how nonsensical it is.
The post goes like this; Intel has, according to Chinese tech site, HKEPC, announced that [...]

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Jonathan Ive, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, has been named as the 11th most influential non-elected person in Britain by The Guardian newspaper.

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