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Category Archives:Apple
Thursday, January 19th, 2012

I was given the Jobs biography for Christmas, and while I made a start a couple of weeks ago, I haven’t really progressed beyond the first couple of chapters. This is for a number of reasons, which are mostly not anybody’s fault. It’s not actually the content that’s doing it. Overall it’s written pretty well [...]

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Monday, October 10th, 2011

We were in the Apple store the other day (the fairly new shiny one in Reading’s Oracle shopping centre, which seems to have the mystical property of being perpetually busy irrespective of whether the rest of the town is rammed or completely quiet) swapping out a busted iPad power brick – they kindly gave me [...]

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Monday, June 6th, 2011

Apple has taken the unprecedented step of announcing iOS 5 feature before the main keynote of its WWDC conference in San Francisco. This follows in the footsteps of the conference announcement, which unusually detailed the topics that Apple CEO Steve Jobs would discuss at the event. The hotly-anticipated iCloud experience will be unveiled at the [...]

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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

One thing struck me, other than the inexplicable absence of a “retina” display in the new iPad model, about Apple’s announcement today. Why did Apple not build HDMI into the iPad 2?

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Monday, February 7th, 2011

This is the iPhone app for RenRen – looks a little familiar, no?

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