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Why the iPhone madness passes me by
11.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

If you’ve been on Twitter over the past couple of days, it would have been hard to miss the iPhone madness that’s engulfing the world. 50% of the Tweeting population seems to be in a queue for a 3G iPhone, heading for a queue or Tweeting from their newly-acquired gadget.
You’ve got to admire Apple for [...]
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Yesterday I bought a MacBook
05.05.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I wasn’t planning to this weekend - I was planning to buy one, but not just this weekend - but my Dell continued to consume vast amounts of cursing time last week, and I managed to buy the wrong kind of HD disk to replace the one I think is dying.
Anyhow, I couldn’t survive another [...]
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Evernote beta invitations
09.04.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

I’m really enjoying using the Evernote beta. I have 10 invitations here if you want one - just leave your details in a comment.
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Windows Media Player, FLAC and Ogg
08.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I recently reinstalled my main PC, and wanted to rationalize the number of media players I have installed.
Windows Media Player sounds best, to my ears, so I use that as a default, but it doesn’t allow me to play FLAC, Ogg, Monkey’s Audio and some other formats. I have to have iTunes installed, as much [...]
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Asus eeePC - I’m in love!
18.01.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Just as Apple launches its MacBook Air, I took delivery of what I feel is a better answer to the problems of lugging a computer around.
My £230-ish Asus eeePC is light and small, although not as outwardly sexy as Mr Jobs’ new child, costing around five times more.
There’s something really appealing to me about the [...]