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Entries from April 2007

Inside Mac OS X: Keychain Access

April 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Mac OS X is a hugely powerful beast and most of us rarely do more than scratch the surface. In an attempt to force myself to dig deeper under the hood, and help you get more from OS X, I thought it would be fun every now and again to take a look at some […]

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Profile: Neil Aspinall, former head of Apple Corps.

April 11th, 2007 · 10 Comments

When Apple Corps lost its battle with Apple Inc. in the High Court in London last year, it was Neil Aspinall who stepped forward and said: “With great respect to the trial judge, we consider he has reached the wrong conclusion. We felt that during the course of the trial we clearly demonstrated just how […]

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Apple TV Commercial: Its Genius is its Simplicity

April 10th, 2007 · No Comments

We’ve become accustomed to commercials for Apple products which do little more than give a brief hint of what the product is or what it can do, but the first ad for the Apple TV is even more brief than most. ‘It’s on your computer. It’s on your iPod. Now it’s on your TV’ is […]

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The Worst Technology Ever

April 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Computerworld has just published its list of the biggest technology flops. Prime position goes to Apple for the Newton Message Pad.

That is, frankly ridiculous. The Message Pad wasn’t a flop. Thousands of people loved it and a thriving developer community built-up around it. Sure it was a little over-priced, and the handwriting recognition wasn’t brilliant. […]

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Elgato’s Turbo.264

April 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Reports of a new hardware H.264 encoder from Elgato have been circulating for a few days. But a quick check of the Elgato website turns up nothing. No press release, no product info, no pics. Nothing.

Turns out however, that the reports are true and the Turbo.264 will ship in April for £69. In a nutshell […]

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Eight-Core Mac Pros

April 4th, 2007 · No Comments

So that NAB invitation wasn’t referring to new Mac Pros, then. The long-awaited, much anticipated addition to the top of the Mac range slipped out of Cupertino with only a press release for company.
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