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This week in Mac Software

August 12th, 2006 2 Comments

As summer stretches on I’ve increasingly found that there’s just no way I’ll cope with using my PC as a full-time machine again. The Mac experience is just too beautiful and working on my iBook is dancing through poppy fields compared to wading through Windows treacle.

That said, this luxurious level of comfort comes in no [...]

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Straw Poll: Download Sizes

May 24th, 2006 10 Comments

You’re downloading an application from the net, lets say an application that you were curious about but might not turn out to be of much use to you. What’s the biggest download size you’d accept? What size of download would make you think ‘I can’t be bothered’?

Keep that figure and mind and now consider whether [...]

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A View of the Little Things

May 16th, 2006

Regarding the little things the computer does. Volumes controls and Bluetooth transfers.

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Tackling overused phrases when writing

January 13th, 2006 11 Comments

I’m not a very good writer. I hope that from time to time I pop out a fairly interesting piece, I can get quite passionate about music and I know a few words. Really, my lack of experience shows. Most noticeably, I overuse certain words and phrases. Especially when proof reading, I swap one phrase [...]

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Office 12; Microsoft waking up

October 3rd, 2005 6 Comments

Many of you will already have seen the preview screenshots of Microsoft’s next release of Office. Currently referred to as Office 12, it will likely arrive in late 2006.

Microsoft have been busy of late. Windows Vista is finally showing progress (all the features from MacOSX are just about in) and they’ve recently been plugging [...]

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