Archive for the ‘the future’ Category

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…)

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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