Forget glass ceilings — try the stairs
Photographed in the Apple Store, London on April 1.
View ArticleReturn 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...
View ArticleApple’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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleShrook
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...
View ArticleStill 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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