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What The Fuck Is Wrong With HP (and Everyone Else)

August 23rd, 2011 | 1 Comment

HP is a company I have always loved, whose products are well engineered and who have some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley. So just what has got into HP and all the other computer makers, except Apple? The recent news that HP has dropped the TouchPad a month after the US release and four days after the Australian one, the effective dropping of WebOS and the plans to follow IBM into a software and service future by offloading their PC business has amazed so many, me included. If you believe the commentary going on, part of the blame is that companies like HP have very low profit margins on PC gear, whereas Apple does much better. And this might be the reason, but, if it is, no one has learned … Read entire article »

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Android Looking More Like a Good Platform to Develop For (or Has Apple Crossed to the Darkside)

May 20th, 2010 | Add a Comment

An article from today on Fast Company presents some really interesting information about smart phone takeup rates and market penetration, so I recommend you go to the article and look it over. It has me thinking about many things to do with the iPhone and iPad. What it shows is that while smart phones are still a small 19% of the total phone market, Android-based smart phones are doing very well in the market. Specifically, since third quarter 2009 the % of smartphones that use the Android platform has been rising smartly at exactly the same time that the % of smart phones from RIM (Blackberry) and Apple have dropped. Of course that does not mean that their overall numbers have dropped, or even stopped growing, but rather that as a … Read entire article »

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Starting an iPhone Application Business for Dummies Book Review

April 11th, 2010 | Add a Comment

Starting an iPhone Application Business for Dummies is part of the brilliant for Dummies series that covers pretty much everything. The book covers what you need to get your head around to setup a proper iPhone business and get it right from the start. Starting an iPhone Application Business for Dummies By Aaron Nicholson, Joel Elad and Damien Stolarz Wiley Publishing, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-470-52452-7 The 390-odd page book is divided into six parts, with each part containing two to four chapters: Surveying the Marketplace Pinpointing the Business Offering Lay the Groundwork Assemble Your iPhone Application Market to the Masses The Part of Tens Across these major sections and the contained chapters the book covers the process of identifying the business opportunities, planning the business, hiring programmers and other staff, managing the development and marketing process and much more. For those new to ideas … Read entire article »

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Snow Leopard for Mac OS a Great Update for Photographers

April 11th, 2010 | Add a Comment

I tend to be very conservative with software updates on my MacBook, as it is my main writing machine. But some software I wanted to run forced me to do the upgrade to the latest Mac OS X version. And a great update it is. Snow Leopard brings 64-bit computing to the Mac core applications and a great performance boost it is too. Startup from cold or sleep is MUCH faster, as is shutdown or sleep at the other end. Things like Mail and Safari operate MUCH faster as well. Interestingly, I have found my Mac generally much faster in all applications. Photoshop is faster to open up and opening files also seems noticeably faster, as are the other Creative Suite applications. Now that 64-bit seems to be working well for the Apple … Read entire article »

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Apple Updates Consumer Desktop Line

March 3rd, 2009 | Add a Comment

Apple today announced updates to its iMac and Mac mini desktop lines, including faster processors and twice the memory for all iMacs and a new Mac mini with powerful new integrated graphics. The entire iMac line comes with faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors up to 3.06 GHz, the latest graphics technology, double the memory and up to one terabyte of storage. Delivering up to five times better graphics performance, the updated Mac mini now features the same groundbreaking NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics introduced with the aluminium unibody MacBook family.* The Mac mini is the world’s most energy efficient desktop, drawing less than 13 watts of power when idle.** All iMac and Mac mini systems come with Mac OS X Leopard, the world’s most advanced operating system, and iLife … Read entire article »

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Apple Introduces New Mac Pro

March 3rd, 2009 | Add a Comment

Features Intel “Nehalem” Xeon Processors & High-Performance Graphics Apple today introduced the new Mac Pro using Intel “Nehalem” Xeon processors and a next-generation system architecture to deliver up to twice the performance of the previous generation system.* The new Mac Pro starts at a recommended retail price (RRP) of A$4,499 inc GST (US pricing starts at US$2,499) and features the latest graphics technology and an updated interior that makes expansion even easier than before. … Read entire article »

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