Apple’s ‘pod’-trademarking shenanigans reminded me of Google moaning about people using ‘google’ as a verb. Trademark dilution is a serious issue, but who told trademark holders they were in charge of the vernacular? continue
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Don’t have time to read all those trademark protection letters? Just post-it them into your filofax
on 21 September 2006
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words are intellectual property
on 1 September 2006
So Apple has started suing people for using the word ‘pod’ in the context of digital media. Very selectively, though: continue
The Visual Thesaurus
on 5 September 2003
What do you get if you cross a thesaurus with one of those fashionable floaty-clustery user interfaces? A pig’s breakfast, you speculate. But no, it’s the Visual Thesaurus. continue
World Without Words
on 25 July 2003
As MacUser’s Features Editor is often heard to remind errant contributors, a picture may be worth a thousand words but it still needs a two-line caption. continue
Words
on 18 May 2001
We in the magazine trade used to be a bit snooty about contract publishing, that bastard offspring of the industry in which clients pay you to churn out bland pap to a captive audience of disinterested customers. continue
Tell me later
on 29 October 1999
Following its recent problems in fulfilling orders for G4 computers, Apple has announced a change in production methods. In recent years the company has employed a JIT (just in time) model, where machines are built at a few hours’ notice to meet immediate demand. It will now switch to a revised strategy known as NOT, or ‘new orders tomorrow’. continue
Guessing games
on 14 November 1997
Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs today may have indicated that he would, wouldn’t, would, wouldn’t, wouldn’t – ha had got you there – would, wouldn’t, w, wo, woo, woo-d… d… be taking up the post permanently at an unspecified point this year, next year, sometime or never continue
The Beat goes on
on 18 April 1997
After ‘Howl’ by Allen Ginsberg, 1926–1997.—I saw the best minds of my generation employed by Macintosh, leaving hysterical later, continue
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