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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke
We took a break last week, just life taking up all our spare time, you know how it is. Anyway Gareth had a cold this week, so he sounds a bit horse. And I have a bad back so we both are a bit crocked.
Gareth though couldn’t contain his excitement at his latest tech purchase. He’s picked up an old BBC model B computer. A blast from his computing past, I was a Commodore man myself. Now he can waste hours playing Elite, just like he did all those years ago.
This week I got to start off, and I began with this,
Wanted: Real-life Q – Both Gareth and I have ruled ourselves out of the running for this, so if you fancy it, have a go. Let us know how it turns out, and remember. “Pay attention 007″.
Tweetie for the Mac desktop arrives – There is a growing plethora of Twitter software for the Mac. Tweetie is the latest, and from the reviews the greatest, tweeter. Gareth raves about it for his iPhone, but he still feels unable to pony up the 15 bucks. You can twitter for free from the website, so maybe its a bit overpriced at that. This lead on to a discussion about the good quality of Mac software in general, which in turn lead on to the poor state of a lot of PC software, which segued nicely into….
Windows 7 to feature ‘XP mode’ – In another move that copies Apple, MS is introducing a compatibility mode for XP software to run in a virtual machine in Windows 7. Apple used this method to transition from OS9 to OSX, successfully dumping a lot of legacy code on the way. Does this signal Microsoft’s intent to do the same thing, ‘cos they sure got a boatload of legacy code to lose.
WWDC sold out – With the boom in app development brought on by the iPhone, and the bounce the Mac platform has had recently, WWDC sold out in record time. Us Mac users can look forward to lots more goodies in the future.
Time Warner and Embarq can’t compete with city-owned ISP, tries to outlaw it. - Can’t be bothered to compete in your market, don’t want to spend the time and money. Then do a TWC and get them outlawed, and you can foist your cheap garbage on ‘up till then happy’ consumers, and charge a fortune for it. I mean its not like America was built on competition.
Apple, Verizon and the iPhone – While AT&T looks on, the ‘anal’ysts have already divorced them from Apple, and are planning the Verizon iPhone wedding. Will they, won’t they, who knows. The ‘anal’ysts get so much wrong, its hard to know, how wrong they’ve got this. But the rumour mill surrounding everything Apple does has a life of its own.
