Category Archives: hardware

Innocence lost

Posted on February 26, 2007 by blogmywiki

With a slightly heavy heart I’ve had to install parental controls on the computer in the back room – which meant upgrading the G3 Tower of Power from MacOS 10.3 to 10.4 (Tiger). The boys had been looking at some … Continue reading →

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Dreams come true

Posted on February 25, 2007 by blogmywiki

I kept dreaming of a new kind of laptop. I kept drawing it and doodling it. It would be about the size of an A4 sheet of paper, have Wifi, run some kind of Linux and – crucially – have … Continue reading →

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I Love Macs

Posted on February 6, 2007 by blogmywiki

Charlie Brooker has written a very funny article in The Guardian about how he hates Macs, hates the people who use them and even hates the people who think about using them. (Ironically the web version is surrounded by the … Continue reading →

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When they were up, they were up

Posted on January 19, 2007 by blogmywiki

I know this is a bit unfair, as I think Apple shares did shoot up one day, and down the next. But this BBC New web page looked a bit silly when the two headlines appeared so close to each … Continue reading →

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iPhone wipes millions off Apple shares – shock

Posted on January 9, 2007 by blogmywiki

Amazingly, despite a generally positive reaction, the new iPhone seems to have more-than-literally decimated the value of Apple’s shares – according to BBC News Online. They are now apparently only worth 8% of yesterday’s value.

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