After Apple’s announcement and subsequent release of the iPhone and later the iPod Touch, my brother and friends bitched about Apple’s stupidity and Steve Jobs’s control freakiness. They all complained about Apple’s unwillingness to allow or even encourage third party development of native iPhone applications. Over the last few months, many, many articles have been [...]
Today, Microsoft released a new version of their music player the Zune and again, they failed to offer something more than ‘good enough’. In a market almost completely dominated by Apple’s iPod, their offering look like they could compete with last year’s iPods; that’s not good enough to compete with this year’s iPods. They have [...]
A new era of computer, and I’m sure other electronics, design is starting. Apple’s design influence is clearly showing in the new Gateway ‘One’. Here is the new Gateway One, and below it you’ll find the new Aluminum iMac released back in August. A blind man could possibly see the similarities. By the way, I’m using one [...]
I’ve been wanting to use Apple’s Mail.app for a while now. I’m a very heavy email user; I send and receive hundreds of messages a day, I do so from multiple computers, so I use IMAP. I use Mozilla’s Thunderbird which works great, however a couple of years ago I purchased a powerbook, so I [...]