Safari for Windows: An injection of Apple technology?
June 13th, 2007
There’s a lot of speculation going on regarding why Apple has introduced Safari for Windows — for example to get more Google ad revenue, as a platform for Windows developers who want to build iPhone apps and so on. One interesting point is that WinSafari doesn’t appear to be using normal Windows technology; in many ways it looks, feels and behaves like an OS X program, much more so than iTunes for Windows. If it’s built with a new class library created by Apple specifically to emulate the Apple look and feel on Windows this could have some interesting ramifications.
iPhone Killer: Microsoft’s oPhone!
May 13th, 2007
Think Apple is innovative? Think the iPhone is the most revolutionary personal digital device on the planet, and it comes from Microsoft! Have a look at the first promotional video from Microsoft, just released. (Apparently Microsoft made this terrific spoof themselves. If that’s true then more power to them!)
Could the Windows Registry actually be a good solution?
March 17th, 2007
Just like all the Linux machines I’ve seen, the user interface of Apple OS X on the Mac Pro feels subjectively sluggish and unresponsive compared to just about any Windows machine I have access to, even my old Athlon XP 2800+ — despite the fact that I have 3GB of memory and 2 Xeon processors with 4 cores running at 2.6GHz. Now, I’m no expert in this sphere but my suspicion is that this may be an inherent problem in the connection between the kernel and the graphical windowing system on all *nix systems. Could it be that the Windows Registry is actually a better solution?
If art is mistaken for rubbish it probably is
March 16th, 2007
A judge in England has just awarded £350,000 in damages for the loss of a work of art that was mistaken for garbage and disposed of. Sounds to me like another example of a court missing a great opportunity to set a precedent. Things like this have happened before and my take on it is that the cleaning staff and building workers responsible for the “mistakes” were simply looking at the artists’ “work” with eyes unclouded by pseudo-intellectual hogwash.
If the judge had any sense he would rule that if art can be mistaken for rubbish then it probably is. The fact that the piece was disposed of as a matter of course with all the rest of the day’s detritus should be taken as proof that it was neither art nor valuable.
Apple’s Migration Assistant is just as bad as Microsoft’s upgrade
February 18th, 2007
It turns out that the slowness problem on my Mac Pro was caused by following Apple’s automatic instructions and using the Migration Assistant program to transfer my data to the Mac Pro from my old Power PC G4 Power Mac.
The Mac Pro is slow
February 15th, 2007
No, the computer itself isn’t slow but many aspects of the user interface are, and after the initial euphoria of the new Mac it’s beginning to annoy me a lot. Where Windows dialogs snap onto the screen many Mac windows and dialogs appear to pause for a moment before responding to your request, as though they’re considering whether they really want to do it or not. The whole user interface just has a slightly “slow” and unresponsive feel to it compared to XP. On my old G4 Power Mac I simply assumed this was the slow processor but this doesn’t seem to be the cause. At least, I don’t think the Mac Pro with its four processor cores running at 2.66GHz can be accused of being underpowered here…
Magic Duck
January 15th, 2007
Angel
January 15th, 2007
High-tech Christmas House
December 22nd, 2006
This guy must have worked for months installing all these Christmas lights on his house and programming them to synchronize with the music. You might not want to have him as your direct neighbor but the result is truly awesome. Merry Christmas and congratulations!
Windows user’s (justified) fear of installing new software
December 22nd, 2006
On his blog, Nick Bradbury posts that many inexperienced users are afraid to install programs. Actually, it is not just inexperienced users who hesitate to install programs on Windows. Many experienced users do too, because they know from painful experience that installing a new application can easily make their system start malfunctioning in strange and creative ways. In addition to this, they also know that it may be impossible to really remove the application. This situation is partly the fault of Microsoft for making Windows the way it is and partly (possibly even more) the fault of the armies of lazy, slovenly programmers out there who think they can do anything they like on users’ computers.
What many Windows programmers do to their users’ computers is the digital equivalent of vandalism.
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