Archive | January 2007

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Trying to steal some of Microsoft's thunder

Apple is unsurprisingly using the Vista launch day to steal some of the limelight away from Microsoft. They’ve added coloured shuffles to their iPod lineup. They also used the store update to not so publicly release the 802.11n wi-fi enabler for mac for sale. 2 dollars US and £1.20 something here in the UK. It’s [...]

It's Vista Time

So Windows Vista is finally released to way too much hype. As much as I appreciate Bill Gates and his charity work, I just don’t feel the same way about what Microsoft have done with Vista. It’s just so over hyped for a product that takes almost everything tiger does and just adds in a [...]

New UK Apple Ads

I’m not sure what to say. On the one hand, anything that helps to raise the popularity of the Mac in this country has to be a good thing. But on the other, when Engadget used the the words smashing, tomfoolery etc in their post about the ads, I just felt embarrased to be British. [...]

PS3 UK launch details announced….

Wow is all I can say really. I mean I knew £425 was going to be the price for the premium system which is about $200 more than the US price. What I didn’t know however was that they wouldn’t even release the 20gb system here at launch. They also announced today that it will [...]

Beatles on iTunes and widescreen iPod at superbowl?

“Merlin Mann suggested that their may be a new Beatles edition iPod similar to the U2 iPod …but with a widescreen and touch features like the iPhone. Leo Laporte ‘predicted’ this same idea again on the latest edition of Geekbrief TV.” I’m interested in this but to be honest I think it would be better [...]

The devil wears Prada

There’s been talk about the iPhone being exactly the same as the LG KE850. I like the LG phone and I can understand why people think they’re the same. I don’t doubt it looks pretty similar to the iPhone because it clearly is. However, if I was going to buy one I wouldn’t even think [...]

Welcome to the anti-social

I guess it’s back to talking about music labels. This time it’s been found that around half of the songs available on the zune marketplace will not be sharable. So essentially universal music (who already get a cut of the zune sales) are making the pretty crap zune sharing feature even crappier. I’m not a [...]

Can music companies be more annoying?

Probably not. Now I’m not in favour of illigal downloading via whatever p2p networks people use now. I’m personally a big itunes and sometimes emusic customer and I don’t buy CDs anymore and I like it. Everything except DRM that is. I hate it and despite rumours apple will start licencing the fairplay drm (to [...]

Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to Windows Vista: My take

I’ll start by saying that I don’t hate microsoft or vista. I like a lot of the new features they have in there but when you look at the upcoming release of Leopard you have to think vista is going to get blown away in a similar way to how XP did features wise, but [...]

Paul Thurrott Confirms New Xbox 360 Coming Late 2007

“In a new edition of “Windows Weekly”, Paul Thurrott says that a new version of the Xbox 360 will be coming in late 2007 and that only the new 360 will have the ability to use IPTV. In addition to a new Xbox, Paul states a larger hardrive is in the works (28:00)” – submitter [...]