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‘Professional blogs…’

Friday, July 22, 2011

TweetFrom Engadget’s “Apple OS X Lion (10.7) review”: The [scrolling] inversion seems inspired by iOS, wherein flicking up a page will cause it to scroll down (take out your iPhone and try it, if you don’t believe us). It’s certainly the case that the inversion of scrolling is a confusion at first, but surely this [...]

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iPad Wants & Needs

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

TweetI wrote about getting an iPad not so long after they came out, and put my hand up to say “this thing is here to stay”. I respond to my own post with a dose of extraordinary smugness, as two things have happened since. First, Apple sold 7.3 million iPads in 9 months. Second, I’m [...]

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Is iTunes 10 a glimpse into OS X 10.7?

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Tweet My first thought as Steve unveiled the new iTunes 10 icon was probably the same as many: that’s gonna stick out like a sore thumb nestled between Mail and iChat. And now I’ve has the pleasure of downloading and installing it, indeed it does! Next, it fires up, updates my library (quelle surprise) and [...]

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When is a toy not a toy?

Friday, June 4, 2010

TweetThere have been a number of devices – what one might cruelly dismiss as gadgets – that I’ve acquired over the years, that after the initial wow factor, left a slight feeling of disappointment. All too familiar you may think, but the story doesn’t end there. These specific gadgets, after their initial peak and trough, [...]

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