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A personal blog by Alex Lee

Browsing Posts published in January, 2007

Well,? I first heard about it on one of the TWiT netcasts, but Apple have today posted the software that will unlock hardware that was fitted to Core 2 Duo-based Macs – well except the 1.83GHz 17in iMac but including the Mac Pro with an Airport Extreme add-in :s . The hardware was installed in [...]

Shuffle in colour

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The iPod shuffle just got that little bit more desirable… Bookmark to: Hide Sites

So what?! Should we all be rushing out to buy one or both of these products? In short yes. Office particularly is a fantastic product and much improved over the previous versions; if you only buy one of these Microsoft Office 2007 should be it. It has the brand new UI which makes things a [...]

Nokia N800

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Nokia announced a new handset at CES – the N800, which is next in the line of its tablet designed phones, but this was obviously over shadowed by the iPhone. So? can it compete with the yet to launch iPhone? The N800 is not a small device by any standards; not as big as some, [...]

This is a little off track, but two reasons appeared this week which have made me so embarrassed to be British. The scavengers looting the washed up cargo of MSC Napoli – and Jade – ? We really are? treading water in some respects Bookmark to: Hide Sites

Sony have announced the release date of the PS3 in Europe. The PlayStation 3 will at last hit shops in Europe on the 23rd of March and for a measly €599, about £425, for the 60gb version which will be the only version available at launch with the 20gb version to follow. But the PS3 [...]

Apple and DRM

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So much going on in the world of DRM at the moment but Cory Doctorow? raised on interesting point on the? TWiT podcast. I do love the TWiT podcasts and so any reason to mention them is great, but this did grab my attention. The conversation was on DRM and Cory raised the point that [...]

Well Mozilla have announced the planned features that will appear in Firefox 2.. erm, I mean Firefox 3. Personally I still don’t think Firefox 2 had enough to warrant its launch as a major release, but hey – at least we getting it this time! taken from mozillalinks.org Among the list of mandatory requirements, read, [...]

I read this late last night on theregister.co.uk Apple appears unable to “think different” on the cell phone front. First the computer maker nicked the iPhone name for the actual device from Cisco, and now we find it’s grabbed an application name from poor old Citrix. Earlier this week, Apple bragged about teaming with Cingular [...]

Well we all thought this had been settled but it appears not? – From the BBC Cisco Systems is suing Apple Computer for trademark infringement in a US federal court, for using the iPhone name. … Apple responded by saying the lawsuit was “silly” and that Cisco’s trademark registration was “tenuous at best”. “We think [...]