Earlier this month, a Londoner was fined £80 (about $150) by the Metropolitan Police for using a swear word in private conversation with his
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Author: Neale Monks
Neale Monks has used Macs since 1990, when he was won over by the simplicity of printing from a networked Mac compared to doing the same thing with networked PCs. Since that time he's written for several Macintosh magazines including Macworld and Macformat as well as MyMac.com, InformIT, Peachpit, TidBITs, and the now-defunct AppleLust web site.
Besides using Macs to make his living every day of the week, he likes to tinker about with vintage Macs, and a few years back wrote an e-book called 'Buying Used Macs' published through MyMac.com.
Neale has a degree in zoology and a PhD in palaeontology. He lives in the market town of Berkhamsted on the edge of the Chiltern Hills.
Do something. Now.
Whether or not the oil runs dry in the next ten years, fifty years, or a hundred years really doesn’t matter. At some point,
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Blair for Beginners
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1997 and leader of the main left-of-centre party in Great Britain since 1994, is perhaps
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Has BootCamp squished gaming on the Mac
Tim’s piece last week about how BootCamp — the utility that allows an Intel-powered Macintosh to startup using either Mac OS X or Windows
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Apple beat Apple Corp.
Hot news from the High Court in London. Apple Corp, the Beatles’ record label, has lost their bid to force Apple Computer from using
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Behind the veil
It’s easy to assume the Arab world is made up of wealthy sheiks, fanatical clerics, helpless women trapped behind the veils, and angry teenage
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Is Battlestar Galactica the new Babylon 5?
I recently picked up the DVDs of the “re-imagined” Battlestar Galactica show, and very good it is to. Compared with the original series, the
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What Apple Did Right in the Nineties
Guy’s piece this week — Apple should (snicker) license to Dell? — is a timely reminder of the disconnect between what the business press
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Meet the biggest threat to your Mac’s security: Microsoft Windows
While reading some reviews of a Macintosh anti-virus progam, I was surprised to see a comment that Mac users should use the software to
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A good night for the Democrats: but what’s next?
It was a rewarding night for Democrats and a frustrating one for Republicans. The Democratic party gained control of the House of Representatives, the
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Hear that? It’s the sound of hands being washed
The death penalty has been outlawed in the UK for decades, and in fact the entire European Union “is opposed to the death penalty
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Five things I learned from Babylon 5
All the best science fiction uses the medium to convey a message. Isaac Asimov used fiction to show possible advances in science, and what
Read MoreMake Internet-savvy Programs with REALbasic
Creating your own computer program in REALbasic 2006 is straightforward and remarkably good fun. With a little practise, you can craft all kinds of neat applications tailor-made to your business or hobbies. In this tutorial, we’ll make a program that access the Meteorological Office web site and then downloads the latest cloud cover satellite image. Definitely useful, the British summer being what it is. In the process, we’ll look at how REALbasic programming works, and how to create a logical interface and add all the little extras like menu items and tool-tips.
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A PowerBook Retrospective, Part 3
The PowerBooks go G3 (and beyond)
The MacBook Pro marked the end of the PowerBook line. Neale Monks looks back at the highs and lows of the most influential portable computers ever made
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The MacBook Pro marked the end of the PowerBook line. Neale Monks looks back at the highs and lows of the most influential portable computers ever made
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The MacBook Pro marked the end of the PowerBook line. Neale Monks looks back at the highs and lows of the most influential portable computers ever made
MacBook Pro (Rev. E)
Product Name: MacBook Pro (Rev. E) Company: Apple URL: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/ Category: Laptop Price: $1999 Specifications: 1.83 GHz 1.5 GB RAM 80 GB Hard Drive
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Microsoft, the big, bad Wolf?
A Conversation with Tony Bove
Tony Bove’s new book on beating the Microsoft addiction — Just say no to Microsoft — is reviewed elsewhere on the Applelust web site this week. For anyone who feels trapped by their computer instead of empowered by it, his book is a stimulating and liberating read.
Nonetheless, it’s a very partial piece of work, a one-sided attack on Microsoft and its products, and designed squarely to attract computer users over to the Macintosh or Linux camps. Regular AppleLust readers will know that I don’t necessarily see Microsoft as the big, bad wolf, so I was pleased when Bove took time out to debate his thesis with me.
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