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Posted in Video capture on January 29, 2008 at 10:44 am

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CYTV and EyeTV 3, the perfect partnership. Read more

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The Can Do, Just Works principle

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Posted in Apple on January 22, 2008 at 9:42 am

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We were at my mother-in-law’s recently and needed to look up a map to the hospital I was taking her for an appointment. We grabbed her Vista laptop (as recommended by Windows-centric brother-in-law), connected it to the outside world via modem and tried to dial into Google maps. Read more

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“One click of my finger”

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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges on January 16, 2008 at 5:36 pm

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Long-time jaded Mac users must surely be astounded at the coverage this year’s Macworld has generated and in particular the keynote speech. This august journal and it’s big sister PCPro have, along with the rest of the non-Mac press, vomited live reports, streaming blogs and wise words before the event that may seem a little foolish with hindsight. Even editor Chris and side-kick Maggie, ITPro’s terpsichoreal Torville and Dean, have been banging on about their all-singing, all-dancing iPhones and Mac toys ever since they got them. Read more

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What Sin a name?

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Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2008 at 5:02 pm

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali, now there’s a silly name. Canaan Banana, that’s another one. Both eminent men in their time and would presumably have met at some point. Baden Baden’s name is so silly they named it twice and to be more accurate it ought to be Baden Baden, Baden. So what about Gumby 50c? Read more

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Transports of the night

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Posted in Uncategorized on January 1, 2008 at 1:25 pm

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There are a hundred reasons to leave things alone when they work just fine. In the case of telephone number enquiries, 118,118 reasons to be exact.

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