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Forget glass ceilings — try the stairs

Photographed in the Apple Store, London on April 1.

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Return of the Mac

Paul Graham is one of the best essayists about technology writing today. He’s just published an interesting essay on a phenomenon I’ve also noticed. All the best hackers I know are gradually switching...

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Apple’s results

In the last quarter, Apple sold 5.3 million iPods, a 558 percent increase from a year ago. More astonishing though is the news that the company sold 1 million Macs — 43 percent more than in the same...

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The Cult of the Mac

Lovely essay by the BBC’s North American Business Correspondent, on the Apple religion. He even brings up Umberto Eco’s insightful religious metaphor for the Mac/PC schism: The Italian philosopher,...

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The PC mini

Behold the PC world’s first stab at replicating the Mac mini. According to the Guardian Online Blog it costs £699 inc VAT with no monitor, no keyboard, no mouse, no speakers and no wireless. A Mac...

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A neat trick

If you highlight a word in Text Edit or Microsoft Word running on a Mac and then drag-and-drop it onto the Safari icon in the dock, a new browser window will open with the results of a Google search on...

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Shrook

As an experiment I’ve switched from using NetNewsWire as my RSS reader to Shrook. First impressions: it’s slick, quick and nicely designed. It also has a neat synchronisation feature which enables you...

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Still movies

Further to my reflections on getting movies from digital still cameras, here’s an example of the way the boundaries between devices is blurring. My Canon IXUS, like many compact digital cameras, has a...

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