computers

iPhone as computer, revisited.

August 7, 2009

When the iPhone came out, we were one of the few who didn’t parade around the idea that it was the cell-phone Messiah. Heck, the iPhone didn’t do much that our Danger Sidekick didn’t, though the user experience was admittedly cleaner. But with iPhone OS 2.0 and the realization of an open AppStore (with some [...]

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Point of the iTablet? Try these variants.

August 3, 2009

All this talk about the iTablet, and we’re still confused as to what the ultimate point is. Not about the talk itself, but about the reasoning to release an iTablet in the first place, novelty factor aside. The iPhone Blog was keen on pointing out the OS possibilities for the rumoured iTablet, and that consideration [...]

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Apple will sooner release a netbook than an iTablet.

March 21, 2009

Why the Apple-faithful pray for an iTablet is anyone’s guess. Perhaps it’s their love for the long-dead Newton, or their strange fetish for a bigger iPhone. But that’s just it: the iPhone is already an iTablet, albeit with an OS X distribution with limitations imposed on it such that it doesn’t appear to be a [...]

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mendax.mac v1.16.

February 8, 2009

We finally got around to updating our recommended list of OS X applications, bringing the virtual “distro” of mendax.mac to version 1.16. Changes include the removal of ClamXav in light of the fact that we rarely used it. That fact brings us to the second reason for ClamXav’s removal: anti-virus apps for OS X are [...]

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Mac viruses? What Mac viruses?

February 2, 2009

We confess: we only installed an anti-virus utility on our Mac nine months ago, after years of using OS X. Even then, we only loaded the application once, because a friend declared how awesome it was. Only, by “awesome” we mean to suggest that the application only appeared awesome, because it, and other applications like [...]

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The Mac Mini needs to eat the AppleTV, and shoot up with TiVo.

January 17, 2009

At the end of an article at TUAW talking about the possibility of the Mac Mini and AppleTV both transitioning over to Nvidia’s Ion platform, Robert Palmer asks the same question we’ve been musing over: But what if the next-generation Apple TV and Mac mini were one in the same? Since the AppleTV is considered [...]

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