Posts Tagged ‘operating systems’

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…)

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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Google reveals Chrome OS

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

So, last week Google previewed it’s upcoming operating system: Chrome OS.

For the non-geeky: operating systems – such as Windows, Mac OS X and Linux – are the bits that sit between you (the user) and the computer hardware (hard drive, graphics card etc).

Why does the world need another operating system you may wonder? Well, you’re not alone.

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