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Photoshop crash report

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Photoshop is flakey, always has been, probably always will be. And it always seems to crash when you least want it to (when you’ve finally completed a difficult procedure and are just about to save for example).

Anyway… when Photoshop crashes, a dialogue box pops up and asks you to send a report to Adobe to let them know what happened. And some people like to vent. (more…)

Apple gives Adobe the finger

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Now the fight gets a little more interesting.

In the red corner we have Apple. Champions of industrial design. Noted control freaks. And, frankly, one of the few companies pushing the boundaries in consumer technology at the moment.

In the blue corner we have Adobe. The people who brought you Photoshop, Illustrator and, of course, Flash. (more…)

A blog post about not writing blog posts… more interesting than it sounds. Honest.

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Realised it’s been nearly a month since anything was added to the lexicon of fine words that is The Magazine. And there’s nothing worse than an attack of cobbler’s children*.

So then you’re faced with a blank screen and, of course, nothing in particular to talk about (or rant about, or rave about etc). But herein lies the point. Yes, there is one. (more…)

iPad announced… geeks complain…

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

So Apple finally announced it’s latest gadget – the iPad. Possibly the most-eagerly awaited tablet since Moses was on the scene (© All today’s newspapers), the iPad is – in layman’s terms – an VERY BIG iPhone… but without the phone bit.
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Party like it’s 1993

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Ever thought that, well, you can do too much with your PC or Mac? It’s just *too* powerful.

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Do you long for a simpler time when Minesweeper was the cutting-edge of games and overlapping program windows were a revelation?

You need the Windows 3.11 emulator :-)

Why people spend hours doing these things is beyond us sometimes… but we’re glad they do.

And all done in javascript… not even a whiff of Flash. Good work fella.

Facial Expression Computer Control

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Made us smile… visit Geek and Poke for more geeky japery.

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The world gets wise to Internet Explorer

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

So, as you may or may not have heard, Google’s fallen out with China: more specifically the Chinese government, which may or may not (strangely both sides disagree on this one) have been hacking into Google Mail/GMail accounts of Chinese dissidents.

Well, apparently, the hacking was made possible because of a problem with Internet Explorer.
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Job seekers: beware Facebook

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

According to research by careerbuilder.co.uk, the interweb increasingly plays a part in recruitment decisions, with 53 per cent of employers researching candidates on sites such as Facebook – and a further 12 per cent planning to start soon.
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Interesting… but I don’t see Clapton playing one

Monday, January 18th, 2010

The jury’s still out as to whether we want one… or will stick with the “boring old strings” of our usual guitars.


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Snow v Technology

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Unless you’ve not looked out of a window for the past two weeks, you can’t have failed to notice that the UK is in the midst of the worst snow and ice to hit the island for almost 30 years.

(You could of course also be from another country, so welcome to our little corner of digital Britain).

I remember the winter of 1981 extremely-well because that December in the middle of the peak of the worst weather, my family and I moved house, into a nice new home at the top of a rather steep hill.
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