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		<title>How to buy a Mac</title>
		<link>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/how-to-buy-mac-consumer-advice-macformat/2191/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Apple Store is the perfect symbol of the company and products we’ve come to know and love: it’s gorgeous, shiny, enticing and impossible to ignore. But there are plenty more options, because Macs are available these days from a greater variety of outlets than ever before. So where should you shop, what should you choose, how can you buy it safely, and is there any way to shave a few quid off that exquisitely typeset Apple Store price tag? <a class="more-link" href="http://macformat.techradar.com/blog/issue-219-–-hands-ipad-03-03-10">Read the full article in <em>MacFormat</em> issue 219, on sale now.</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Service that’s so bad, it’s beyond logic</title>
		<link>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/virgin-broadband-slow-tech-support/2186/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The trouble with being a Mac user is it lulls you into a false sense of security. It’s like what happens with snow. In most northern countries people aren’t surprised by it, and just trudge around looking resigned until it goes away again. Windows users have the same kind of relationship with stuff that fails to work, does the opposite of what they meant, or tells them to wait while the system restarts to complete installation of another essential update. <a class="more-link" href="http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/virgin-broadband-slow-tech-support/2186/">continue</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blood, sweat and beers</title>
		<link>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/hedley-barrel-race-2010-poster/2180/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m posting this partly to publicise the Hedley Barrel Race and Beer Festival, if anyone’s in the area, and partly for portfolio, because I don’t often get asked to do posters. <a class="more-link" href="http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/hedley-barrel-race-2010-poster/2180/">read this and see the poster</a>]]></description>
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		<title>In which I become the last person in the universe to blog about the iPad; and risk being branded an Apple fanboy. But, whatever</title>
		<link>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/apple-ipad-opinion/2156/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/apple-ipad-opinion/2156/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched the launch of the iPad (or iSlatelet, as I’d taken to calling it in the hope that someone would have explained to Steve why iPad was an even less sensible name for a consumer electronics product than Wii) with considerable scepticism, but on reflection, so many aspects of this thing are near enough right. <a class="more-link" href="http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/apple-ipad-opinion/2156/">continue</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Civilisation: less isn’t more</title>
		<link>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/avatar-review-for-geeks/2159/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So I went to see <em>Avatar</em>, a satire on mankind's acquisitiveness and obsession with technological progress. I wanted to catch it at the IMAX, but the Christmas traffic was too heavy. (If you're hearing a funny noise in the background, it's just the alarm on my irony meter.) <a class="more-link" href="http://www.macuser.co.uk/columns/275335/one-more-thing-blue-not-blue-chip.html">continue reading at www.macuser.co.uk</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Detox your Mac*</title>
		<link>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/macformat-detox-your-mac-tips/2153/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tired? Sluggish? Lost your get-up-and-go? Yes, Mac, we’re talking to you. Find out how to get your hard disk fit in <em>MacFormat</em> issue 217, on sale now. <a class="more-link" href="http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/macformat-detox-your-mac-tips/2153/#content">continue reading extract</a>]]></description>
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		<title>This tablet is hard to swallow</title>
		<link>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/apple-tablet-slate-itablet-islate-whatever/2138/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/apple-tablet-slate-itablet-islate-whatever/2138/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I never fully believed the Apple Tablet was real until I heard these words on my iPhone: ‘It’s [name withheld], I work for Apple and I can confirm that, yes... I’ve read the rumour websites too. We’re all really excited and just waiting for Steve to tell us to start making it.’
<a href="http://www.macuser.co.uk/columns/274945/one-more-thing-this-tablet-is-hard-to-swallow.html" class="more-link">continue reading at www.macuser.co.uk</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Shopper Complete Guide to Windows 7</title>
		<link>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/complete-guide-to-windows-7-book/2142/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Computer Shopper</em> magazine asked me to produce a special Christmas issue on Windows 7. Which was great, except the time frame was less than four weeks, start to finish. <a class="more-link" href="http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/complete-guide-to-windows-7-book/2142/">continue</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Punishment without the crime</title>
		<link>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/mandelson-three-strikes-internet-cutoff/2135/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/mandelson-three-strikes-internet-cutoff/2135/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody was shocked when the Secretary of State for Business announced three strikes. There could be a lot more than that by the end of the winter. As it turned out, though, he wasn’t talking about industrial action: Lord Mandelson was resurrecting the proposal to cut off your access to the Internet if you’re accused of infringing copyright. Like privatising the Royal Mail, he probably doesn’t see why this is controversial. <a class="more-link" href="http://www.macuser.co.uk/columns/272662/one-more-thing-crime-and-punishment.html">continue reading at www.macuser.co.uk</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to set up an online business</title>
		<link>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/how-to-set-up-an-online-business/2126/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/how-to-set-up-an-online-business/2126/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>PC Pro</em> regular Kevin Partner has written a lively and informative book on setting up and marketing a business on the Internet, and I’ve had fun designing it. <a class="more-link" href="http://www.adambanks.com/wordpress/how-to-set-up-an-online-business/2126/#content">continue</a>]]></description>
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