on 2 September 2010
Apple’s annual iPod event was held at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, one of the company’s regular venues, and livecast to press gatherings in locations including London, where my fellow hacks reported a less than stampede-like turnout. read the full report
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on 22 July 2010
MacFormat asked me for a pastiche of a Victorian advertising poster for a feature on essential Mac applications. continue
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on 21 July 2010
Thanks to Apple’s build quality, old Macs rarely die – they just end up on eBay. You can get a usable machine from under £100. continue
on 7 July 2010
Apple has dubbed the iPhone 4’s new higher-resolution screen Retina Display. So what exactly does that mean, and are Steve Jobs’ claims of “smooth and continuous graphics” – in other words, no visible pixels – technically justified? continue
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on 7 June 2010
Today, Steve Jobs will announce the new iPhone. Despite sterling efforts, nobody has been able to reveal any substantial information about it, because Apple is highly secretive about new products. Yet the Telegraph’s Consumer Technology Editor, Matt Warman, managed to publish a piece before the weekend advising consumers of the 4G’s key weaknesses. How did he do it? continue
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on 29 April 2010
So Steve Jobs finally posted the reasoning for his decision to kill Flash, in any form, on the iPhone/iPad platform. continue
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on 23 April 2010
Every year, the latest Macs get faster and faster. But do we? No matter how many teraflops it can flip, your computer’s ability to save you time and effort depends on you finding your way around its features and functions. continue reading excerpt
on 11 April 2010
So Apple has finally done it: having prevented Flash Player from coming to the iPhone (and iPod touch and iPad), it’s now, with the revised clause 3.3.1 of the iPhone developer agreement, closed the door to Adobe’s constructive and innocuous workaround of allowing Flash developers to convert their projects to iPhone/iPad apps. continue
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on 3 April 2010
Blogging in response to somebody else’s blog is not usually my style, but Cory Doctorow’s anti-iPad rant on BoingBoing is so well written and so wrong that it’s impossible to ignore. continue
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on 26 March 2010
Bill Clinton told his election team, ‘It’s the economy, stupid,’ but the relationship between prosperity and political attitudes is far from being a no-brainer. continue
adambanksdotcom He must be older than me. Still, good #IanTomlinson story (in the Mail! Really!) by Stephen Glover http://bit.ly/9MKMmH — go to this tweet